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Effective
Date: January 1, 2001.
Revision date: July 03, 2004.
MOTION:
( I ) ORGANIZATION:
The International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary
Computation, an Illinois Corporation, ("ISGEC"),
incorportated on 12/21/2000, shall serve as
the successor to the International Society for
Genetic Algorithms and to the informal organization
that had organized the annual Genetic Programming
Conference. Assets previously belonging to those
entities shall become the property of ISGEC.
( II ) The
by-laws of ISGEC shall include the following:
PURPOSE OF ISGEC:
The purpose of the International
Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
(ISGEC) is to combine the preexisting International
Society for Genetic Algorithms and the Genetic
Programming conference organization into one
organization in order to operate an annual Genetic
and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)
(combining the formerly held International Conference
on Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming
Conferences), to support and periodically operate
other specialized conferences and events, to
support the Evolutionary Computation journal
and the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
journal, to provide support for student participation
in the activities of the organization, to provide
educational activities, and to promote public
information about the field of genetic and evolutionary
computation.
( III ) INITIAL COMPOSITION
OF THE ISGEC EXECUTIVE BOARD: The
initial ISGEC Executive Board shall consist
of the following 15 members with five-year terms
as shown below:
CURRENT 2001: Hans-Paul Schwefel, John H. Holland,
Darrell Whitley
NEW 2002: Terence C. Fogarty, Wolfgang Banzhaf,
Hitoshi Iba
CURRENT 2003: David E. Goldberg (chair), Kenneth
DeJong, Erik D. Goodman
NEW 2004: Una-May O'Reilly, David Andre, Lee
Spector
CURRENT 2005: Kalyanmoy Deb, John R. Koza, Marc
Schoenauer
FOR INFORMATION ONLY: The terms of the 9 current
members of the ISGA Board are unchanged.
( IV ) The
by-laws of ISGEC shall also include the following:
GENERAL BY-LAWS FOR
ISGEC:
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(a)
Each member of the ISGEC Executive Board
will have a five-year term with three seats
being elected in 2001 and every fifth year
thereafter.
(b) The chair of the ISGEC Executive Board
shall have a term of three years and be
elected by the ISGEC Executive Board starting
in October of 2001 and every three years
thereafter.
(c) The ISGEC Executive Board shall elect
an electronic newsletter editor for a term
of one year.
(d) If not otherwise one of the 15 voting
members of the board, the chair, the editor-in-chief
of the Genetic Programming and Evolvable
Machines journal, the editor in chief of
the Evolutionary Computation journal, the
designated chairs of any future GECCO, and
the newsletter chair shall be non-voting
ex officio members of the ISGEC Executive
Board.
(e) COUNCIL OF AUTHORS: The Council of Authors
shall be composed of
ISGEC members who are the authors or co-authors
or lead editors of
full-length books in the field of genetic
and evolutionary computation
(provided that the book is published by
an organization other than
that of the lead author or editor), the
current editor-in-chief of
each journal in the field of genetic and
evolutionary computation
(such as ECJ, GPEM, IEEE TEC, and the EO
internet journal), the lead
editor of the latest edition of each serial
publication in the field
of genetic and evolutionary computation
(such as the Advances in
Genetic Programming), and the lead editor
of any other edited book of
papers that has been published in the field
of genetic and
evolutionary computation (provided, in each
case, that the journal,
serial, or edited collection is published
by an organization other
than that of the lead editor) and who agree
to serve on the Council.
If a book publication has no designated
lead editor, the ISGEC
Executive Board will designate the member
for the Council from among
the authors or editors of the publication.
The chair of the Council
of Authors shall issue an invitation to
newly eligible authors or
editors, upon determining or being notified
that a new book in the
field has appeared or a new editorship has
occurred. The term of a
new member book author/editor shall begin
with the on-sale date
of the book, the date of payment of ISGEC
dues, or the date the
person agrees to join the Council, whichever
is later, or the date
of assumption of duties as editor-in-chief,
and shall extend for the
duration of the person's membership in ISGEC
or until cessation of
editor-in-chief duties for a journal or
until appearance of a
subsequent volume of a serial publication,
for editors of those
publications. Upon agreeing to join the
Council, the member
shall be asked by the chair to select exactly
one program policy
committee of which to be a member, subject
to change upon future
request of the member. The members of the
ISGEC Executive Board
shall be ex officio non-voting members of
the Council of Authors. The
Council of Authors shall be chaired by the
editor-in-chief of the
most
recent GECCO conference proceedings.
(f) COUNCIL OF CONFERENCES: The Council
of Conferences shall consist of the general
chair of the upcoming next instance of each
recurring conference, workshop, or symposium
in the field of genetic or evolutionary
computation with at least 40 attendees (i.e.,
after the event has been held at least once
and after the event has been scheduled to
be held again). Membership on the council
shall be irrespective of whether a particular
conference is in cooperation with ISGEC.
The Council of Conferences will discuss
and voluntarily coordinate the scheduling
of conferences in the field of genetic and
evolutionary computation. If a conference
is part of a combined conference for a particular
year, the member will be the general chair
of the combined event. If the conference
has multiple chairs, the ISGEC EXECUTIVE
BOARD will designate the member from among
such multiple chairs. The term of each new
member will begin at the later to occur
of (a) his or her designation as the new
general chair for the next conference by
the organization operating the conference
and (b) the closing day of the previous
instance of that conference. The members
of the ISGEC Executive Board shall be ex
officio non-voting members of the Council
of Conferences. The chair of the next GECCO
conference shall be chair of the Council
of Conferences.
(g) The ISGEC Chair may present issues to
a committee of the whole consisting of the
Council of Authors or the ISGEC Executive
Board or any combination thereof.
(h) No person on the ISGEC Executive Board,
any ISGEC council or committee, or any GECCO
committee, shall have more than one vote
(even if that person qualifies for membership
in multiple ways). No votes may be cast
by proxy.
(i) The ISGEC Executive Board shall set
annual dues for membership in ISGEC at a
rate that will cover the costs of supplying
each member with an annual subscription
to both the Evolutionary Computation journal
and the Genetic Programming and Evolvable
Machines journal, communication with the
members, and other administrative expenses
of the organization (including, but not
limited to, contracting with a professional
association management company to maintain
membership list).
(j) The ISGEC Executive Board shall be elected
by the membership. The election shall be
held by mail and at the annual GECCO conference.
Starting with the 2002 elections, ballots
shall be mailed to all ISGEC members 45
days prior to the annual GECCO conference.
If a member chooses to vote by mail, his
mail ballot must, in order to be counted,
be postmarked 7 days before the start of
the conference and must arrive by the start
of the conference. The organization shall
mark off each member who has voted by mail
and, at the conference, then permit any
member who has not voted by mail to vote
in person at the conference. Voting shall
close at 5 PM on the second-to-last day
of the conference. The votes shall be counted
and the result announced on the last day
of the conference.
(k) Membership on the ISGEC Executive Board
and the Council of Authors shall be limited
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( V ) The
by-laws of ISGEC shall also include the following:
BY-LAWS FOR THE GECCO CONFERENCE:
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(a)
The International Society for Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation shall operate an
annual Genetic and Evolutionary Conference
(GECCO).
(b) For each GECCO conference, the ISGEC
Executive Board shall (approximately 15
months prior to the conference, elect two
members of a Business Committee for that
conference, and elect a general chair of
the conference (who shall be the third member
of the Business Committee for that conference).
The Business Committee of each GECCO conference
shall supervise the finances and operations
of the conference and provide the ISGEC
Executive Board with a final report on the
finances and operations of the conference.
The ISGEC Executive Board shall make seed
money available to the Business Committee
of each GECCO conference.
(c) The GECCO Business Committee will select
a professional conference management operator
for the conference. The GECCO Business
Committee
may solicit outside contributions earmarked
for student travel and other activities
of the conference. The GECCO Business Committee
will decide the conference's budget (subject
to such overall limitations as may be established
by the ISGEC Executive Board), issue the
conference's Call For Papers: arrange for
publicity, select tutorials and workshops,
award student travel grants, select invited
speakers, decide on honorariums for invited
speakers, arrange for vendor presentations
or exhibits; and determine the conference's
time schedule. The GECCO Business Committee
may appoint additional chairs (e.g., publicity,
tutorial, student travel, overall workshop
chair, local arrangements). As of GECCO-2006,
the conference registration fees shall
be waived for the tutorial speakers, general
chair, and editor-in-chief of GECCO. The
Business Committee may extend the waiver
to other
individuals as they deem appropriate.
Except for invited plenary
speakers (not to exceed three) and students
receiving
student travel grants, no person will receive
any monetary compensation or reimbursement
for travel, lodging, meals, or entertainment
for their involvement, contribution, or
participation in the conference.
(d) The GECCO conference shall be organized
consistent with the following principles:
(i)
The GECCO conference shall be
a broad-based conference encompassing
the whole field of genetic and
evolutionary computation.
(ii) Papers will be published
and presented as part of the main
conference proceedings only after
being peer reviewed . No invited
papers shall be published (except
for those of up to three invited
plenary speakers).
(iii) The peer review process
shall be conducted consistent
with the principle of division
of powers performed by a multiplicity
of independent program committees,
each with expertise in the area
of the paper being reviewed.
(iv) The determination of the
policy for the peer review process
for each of the conference's independent
program committees and the reviewing
of papers for each program committee
shall be performed by persons
who occupy their positions by
virtue of meeting objective and
explicitly stated qualifications
based on their previous scientific
research activity or applications
activity.
(v) Emerging areas within the
field of genetic and evolutionary
computation shall be actively
encouraged and incorporated in
the activities of the conference
by providing a semi-automatic
method for their inclusion into
the activities of the conference
(with some procedural flexibility
being extended to such emerging
new areas).
(vi) The percentage of submitted
papers that are accepted as regular
papers (i.e., papers other than
one-page poster papers) shall
not exceed 50%.
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(e)
Each GECCO conference shall have six core
program policy committees covering the
following areas: genetic algorithms, classifier
systems, genetic programming, evolvable
hardware, evolution strategies and evolutionary
programming, and real world applications.
In addition, special program committees
shall be established for emerging areas.
(f) Each program policy committee and
special program committee shall operate
independently (subject to the conference-wide
formula for allocation of pages and administrative
procedures).
(g) Each paper submitted possible inclusion
in the main conference proceedings shall
be directed, based on its subject matter,
to one of the core program policy committees
or special program committees for peer
review prior to its acceptance for publication
in the conference's main conference proceedings
and presentation at the conference.
(h) Each program policy committee will
determine the procedure for arriving at
the final acceptance or rejection decision
(and, optionally, paper size) for each
paper submitted to that committee. Each
program policy committee shall explicitly
adopt (or re-adopt) its procedures anew,
by an explicit vote, each year prior to
the beginning of the review process for
the next GECCO conference. The papers
submitted to each program committee shall
be reviewed by the reviewers associated
with that committee.
(i) Membership in the six core program
policy committees shall be determined
as follows:
The program policy committees shall be
composed of members of the Council of
Authors, together with the appointed chair
of each committee. Each member of the
council of Authors shall be on one (and
only one) program policy committee of
his or her choice.
The
program policy committee for classifier
systems shall be composed of members of
the Council of Authors who have authored
books on classifier systems and the chairs,
co-chairs and members of the program committee
of the 2001 Learning Classifier Workshop.
The
program policy committee for evolvable
hardware shall be composed of members
of the Council of Authors who have authored
books on evolvable hardware; the previous
chairs, co-chairs and members of the program
committee of the 2001 NASA/DoD conference
on Evolvable Hardware; and the previous
chairs, co-chairs and members of the 2001
Conference of Evolvable Systems.
At the such time as the number of full-length
books on evolutionary programming exceeds
five and the number of full-length books
on evolution strategies also exceeds five,
the program policy committee for evolution
strategies and evolutionary programming
shall be divided for the GECCO conference
coming 10 or more months after such time.
(j)
The GECCO Business committee will appoint
the chair of each program policy committee
and the editor-in-chief of the conference's
proceedings. The chair of the conference
and chairs of the core program committees
and special program committees shall be
listed as co-editors of the Proceedings.
The chair of the conference shall be listed
as editor of the Tutorials volume and
the Late-Breaking Papers volume. The overall
chair of the workshops shall be listed
as editor of the Workshops volume.
(k) Each program policy committee and
each special program policy committee
shall review papers using peer reviewers
with expertise in their area.
A person may be a reviewer for the GECCO
conference if he or she satisfies the
qualifications established for being a
reviewer. For each GECCO conference, the
GECCO Business Committee shall establish
uniform, objective, and explicitly stated
qualifications for reviewers for the conference
as a whole. The qualifications may be
stated as a combination of positive factors
(e.g., author or co-author of at least
three peer-reviewed papers that have been
published in a journal, collected book
of papers, or conference proceedings book
in the field of genetic and evolutionary
computation) , and/or negative factors
(e.g., failure to provide a timely review
at a previous GECCO conference). In the
case of the Industry Roundtable, the positive
factors may include work in implementing
real world applications of genetic and
evolutionary computation (e.g., at least
six months work in the past three years).
All of the foregoing examples of criteria
are for purpose of illustration only.
The GECCO Business Committee shall actively
solicit volunteers to be reviewers throughout
the field of genetic and evolutionary
computation who meet the qualifications.
A person may be reviewer for only one
program policy committee or special program
committee of the conference.
The members of the program policy committees
may or may not, at their individual option,
also be reviewers for their committees.
(l) The GECCO Business Committee shall
establish a uniform conference-wide publication
of pages in the conference's proceedings
books for each program committee. Each
program committee shall have autonomy
in accepting papers within its area.
The allocation shall be based on the principle
that the percentage of the submitted papers
that are accepted as regular papers (i.e.,
papers other than one-page poster papers)
shall not exceed 50%.
The
number of regular papers to be published
shall be the smaller of (i) 50% the number
of papers submitted to the conference
and (ii) the result of subtracting the
number of pages for front matter, indices,
dividers, and one-page poster papers from
the total number of pages available for
the proceedings, and then dividing that
difference by eight (or other uniform
length for regular papers established
by the GECCO Business committee for that
conference).
The initial allocation for regular papers
to each program committee shall be 95%
of "the number of regular papers to be
published" (as computed above) times the
number of papers submitted to the conference.
Using the unallocated 5% of the number
of regular papers to be published (plus
any surplus of papers created by program
committees that do not use their entire
initial allocation), the GECCO Business
Committee may make additional pages available
to a particular program committee during
the paper review process (e.g., particularly
the smaller special program committees).
The length and format of the conference
proceedings for each GECCO conference
shall be determined by the Business Committee.
Any subdivision of the proceedings into
two or more volumes shall be done at the
decision of the Business Committee.
(m)
The reviewing form of the conference will
include the following reviewer's statement
applicable to the reviewer's writing of
his or her review: "I have read this paper.
I acknowledge that any new intellectual
content of this paper is confidential
and will not disclose or use it until
such time as it is published by the submitting
author(s) or otherwise becomes publicly
known. This review is my own opinion;
I have written it myself; and I have not
discussed my review of this paper with
any other peer reviewer for this conference."
(n) The GECCO Business Committee shall
establish procedures for handling late-breaking
papers and workshop papers.
(o) The GECCO conference shall adjust
and expand its scope based on research
advances in the field of genetic and evolutionary
computation by means of special program
committees.
Special program committees may be established
covering emerging areas including, but
not limited to, DNA and molecular computing,
ant colony optimization, methodology/pedagogy/philosophy,
and artificial life/adaptive behavior/
agents. Each special program committee
shall combine the functions of establishing
program policy and conducting reviewing
of papers submitted to it. The GECCO Business
Committee shall appoint the chair of each
special program committee and determine
the method of appointing the remaining
members (which may or may not parallel
the methods used for determining the composition
of the core program policy committees).
The GECCO Business Committee may create
special program committees at any time.
Additional special program committees
for a GECCO conference may be established
for an emerging new area in the field
of genetic and evolutionary computation
in any of the following ways. The GECCO
Business Committee, the Council of Authors,
the Councils of Editors, or the Council
of Conferences may initiate a proposal
to create a special program committee.
Such proposals may be made up to 11 months
before a conference. Such a proposal will
become automatically effective unless
it is disapproved by a two-thirds vote
of the ISGEC Executive board within 30
days after the proposal is submitted to
the ISGEC Executive Board.
In addition, the GECCO conference may
also adjust and expand its scope by forming
new core program policy committees. At
such time as the number of full-length
books on the subject matter of a special
program committee first exceeds five,
an additional core program policy committee
for that area shall be permanently created
for that area (for the GECCO conference
coming 10 or more months after such time).
The members of the Council of Authors
whose books are on the subject of the
new program policy committee shall be
members of the new core program policy
committee.
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( VI )
The by-laws of ISGEC shall also include the
following:
AMENDMENTS:
(a)
The by-laws may be amended by a two-thirds vote
of the ISGEC Executive Board.
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