• 15 November 2023: Special Session & Workshop Proposals Deadline
• 15 December 2023: Competition & Tutorial Proposals Deadline
• 15 January 2024 29 January 2024: Paper Submission Deadline
• 15 March 2024: Paper Acceptance Notification
• 1 May 2024: Final Paper Submission & Early Registration Deadline
• 30 June - 5 July 2024: IEEE WCCI 2024 Yokohama, Japan

 Organizers

• Qiuzhen Lin (Member, IEEE)
  

  Affiliation: Shenzhen University, China
  Email address: qiuzhlin@szu.edu.cn
  Qiuzhen Lin received the Ph.D. degree from Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, in 2014. He is currently an associate professor in College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University. His current research interests include artificial immune system, multi-objective optimization, and dynamic system.

• Lingjie Li
  

  Affiliation: Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ), China
  Email address: lilingjie@gml.ac.cn
  Lingjie Li received the Ph.D. degree from the College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, in 2023. He is currently an associate researcher in Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ). His current research interests include Evolutionary Optimization & Applications, specifically research on algorithms such as multi-objective optimization and large-scale optimization, as well as applications such as high-dimensional feature selection, hyperspectral images, and cloud computing.
  
  

• Wei-Neng Chen (Senior Member, IEEE)
  

  Affiliation: South China University of Technology, China
  Email address: cschenwn@scut.edu.cn
  Wei-Neng Chen received the Ph.D. degree from Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, in 2012. Since 2016, he has been a Full Professor with the School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou. He has coauthored over 100 international journal and conference papers, including more than 60 papers published in the IEEE TRANSACTIONS journals. His current research interests include computational intelligence, swarm intelligence, network science, and their applications.
  Dr. Chen was a recipient of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding Dissertation Award in 2016 and the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars in 2016. He was also a Principle Investigator of the National Science and Technology Innovation 2030—the Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Key Project. He is currently the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Guangzhou Section, and the Chair of IEEE SMC Society Guangzhou Chapter. He is also a Committee Member of the IEEE CIS Emerging Topics Task Force. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS and the Complex and Intelligent Systems.
  
  

• Carlos A. Coello Coello (Fellow, IEEE)
  

  Affiliations: Department of Computer Science, CINVESTAV-IPN (Evolutionary Computation Group), Mexico. School of Engineering and Sciences, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, N.L., Mexico.
  Email address: carlos.coellocoello@cinvestav.mx
  Carlos A. Coello Coello received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA, in 1996. He is a Professor (CINVESTAV-3F Researcher) with the Department of Computer Science of CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico. He has authored and coauthored over 450 technical papers and book chapters. He has also coauthored the book Evolutionary Algorithms for Solving Multi-Objective Problems (Second Edition, Springer, 2007). His publications currently report over 57 600 citations in Google Scholar (his H-index is 95). His research interests include evolutionary multiobjective optimization and constraint-handling techniques for evolutionary algorithms.
  Dr. Coello Coello was a recipient of the 2007 National Research Award from the Mexican Academy of Sciences in the area of Exact Sciences, the 2013 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, and the 2012 National Medal of Science and Arts in the area of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Mexican Academy of Science.
  
  

• Zhong Ming
  

  Affiliation: Shenzhen Technology University, China
  Email address: mingz@szu.edu.cn  
  Zhong Ming received the Ph.D. degree from Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, in 2003. He is currently the vice president of the Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, China, a Chair Professor with the Shenzhen Technology University. He has published more than 200 refereed international conference and journal papers (including more than 40 ACM/IEEE Transactions papers). His research interests include software engineering and artificial intelligence.