EvoStar comprises of five co-located conferences run each spring at different locations throughout Europe: EuroGP, EvoBIO, EvoCOP, EvoMUSART and EvoAPPLICATIONS. These events arose out of workshops originally developed by EvoNet, and they represent a continuity of research collaboration stretching back nearly 20 years.

In 2014, EvoStar will be hosted in Granada, Spain (** AND NOT BAEZA AS PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED **), between the 23rd and 25th April 2014.

EvoHOT, formerly the "Workshop on Evolutionary Hardware Optimization", is a track inside EvoAPPLICATIONS, the European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation. Since 2004, EvoHOT focuses on innovative heuristics, game theory and bio-inspired techniques (eg. EA, SA, AIS, NN, ants) applied to the Electronic Design Automation. Its goal is to show the latest developments; industrial experiences; successful attempts to evolve rather than design new solutions; hybridizations of traditional methodologies.

EvoHOT topics include, but are not limited to:

Analog circuit design
Automatic test pattern generation
Built-in self test
Evolutionary design of electronic circuits
Evolutionary hardware design methodologies
Evolutionary robotics
Evolvable hardware
Floorplanning
Hardware/Software co-design
Hybrid evolutionary/exact approach
Hardware accelerated methodologies
Logic synthesis
Routing
Test program generation

More information at: (http://www.evostar.org/cfpEvoHOT.html)

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## PUBLICATION DETAILS

Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of EvoStar, published in a volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, which will be available at the Conference. Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts. At least one author of each accepted work has to register for the conference and attend the conference and present the work. The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper.

A selection of best papers presented in EvoHOT will be published in a Special Issue of the Journal of Electronic Testing edited by Springer (springer.com/engineering/circuits+&+systems/journal/10836)

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## SUBMISSION DETAILS

Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. They will be peer reviewed by members of the program committee. The reviewing process will be double-blind, so please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper.

Submit your manuscript in Springer LNCS format.

Please provide up to five keywords in your Abstract

Page limit: 12 pages to http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps14/.

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## IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 11 November 2013
Conference: EvoHOT: 23-25 April 2014

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## EVO-HOT CHAIRS

Rolf Drechsler
Cyber-Physical Systems, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Germany

Giovanni Squillero
Politecnico di Torino
Italy