Call for Papers

——IEEE CEC 2025 Special Session on “Evolutionary Computation in Healthcare Industry”


Aim

In view of the rapid increasing demands of diagnosis, treatment, disease prevention, and medical service, which affect the mortal rates and life quality of human beings, the healthcare industry continue to thrive and grow. With the development of computer science and artificial intelligence, the core tasks in the healthcare industry can be formulated as scheduling, planning, predicting, and optimization problems, where evolutionary computation methods can play an important role. Although evolutionary computation has been applied to a few scenarios in healthcare industry, many more tasks in healthcare industry such as decision making in computer-aided diagnosis and predicting for disease prevention have not been properly formulated for evolutionary computation techniques, and advanced evolutionary computation techniques are expected to be adopted.
This special session, as an event organized by the Task Force on “Intelligence Systems for Health” in the Intelligent Systems Application Technical Committee, aims to promote the research on evolutionary computation methods for their applications to the healthcare industry.


Scope

The topics of this special session include, but are not limited to, the follows:

  • Evolutionary computation for resource allocation, such as hospital location planning, aeromedical retrieval system planning, etc.
  • Evolutionary computation for job scheduling, such as ambulance scheduling, nurse scheduling, job scheduling in medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturing, etc.
  • Multiple-criteria decision-making for computer-aided diagnosis using expert systems.
  • Evolutionary computation for web self-diagnostic system with the application of information retrieval and recommendation system.
  • Evolutionary computation for the analysis of biological networks.
  • Evolutionary computation for radiotherapy planning.
  • Data-driven evolutionary algorithms in pharmaceutical manufacturing processes.
  • Learning and optimization for vaccine selection and personalized/stratified medicine.
  • Route planning for disability robots.
  • Evolutionary computation for other tasks related to healthcare industry, medicine, and biomedical engineering.


    • Submissions

    Papers should be submitted following the instructions at the IEEE CEC 2025 website. Please select the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) and the Special Session on “Evolutionary Computation in Healthcare Industry”. Accepted papers will be included and published in the conference proceedings.


    Deadline: 31th January 2025

    Notification: 15th March 2025

    Congress: 8th June 2025 - 12th June 2025, Hangzhou, China


    Organizers

    Ye Tian, School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, China. (field910921@gmail.com)

    Cheng He, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. (chenghe_seee@hust.edu.cn)

    Zhichao Lu, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.(luzhichaocn@gmail.com)

    Rong Qu, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, U. K. (rong.qu@nottingham.ac.uk)

    Yaochu Jin,School of Engineering, Westlake University, China. (jinyaochu@westlake.edu.cn)