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Visualizing Evolution Competition to be held as part of the 2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012) July 7-11, Philadelphia, PA, USA Organized by ACM SIGEVO http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2012 *Goal* This competition aims to enable participants to exhibit their cutting edge visualizations of evolutionary processes. The competition is a general set of guidelines and a framework within which a variety of visualization and interaction technologies can be used to portray current work in evolutionary computing in a compelling and elucidating manner. Hopefully, by visualizing these processes and applying techniques from scientific visualization and visual analytics, new insights and a broader understanding will be achieved. *Rules* The Visualizing Evolution Competition submission guidelines require the submission of a program and relevant data that can be used to elucidate some aspect of the EC community. The data must be collected from running an evolutionary computing algorithm, or can be input to such a program running as part of the visualization system. The materials required for submission are as follows: 1. The application program and any instructions necessary to install and run it. 2. Test data for the application. 3. A two page writeup describing the application, the evolutionary process being modeled, and any insights gained through use of the program. 4. A short video (we suggest 3 minutes length) that describes the application, how to use it, and its significance. *Scoring* The submissions will be scored by a community panel (TBA), which will judge based on the criteria of originality, quality, and applicability, described below: 1. Originality: This criterion is primarily to show that a submission is unique and creative. 2. Quality: A submission high in this criterion would be visually appealing, easy to interact with, and easy to interpret. 3. Applicability: This is primarily to evaluate how relevant is a submission to the EC community. *Submission* All submissions should be sent to [email protected] by June 25, 2012 *Further Information* http://sites.google.com/site/visualizingevo/ http://groups.google.com/group/visualizingevolution
