[Kdml] Call for Abstracts: August 7, 2024 ("30th birthday of estimation-of-distribution algorithms" Workshop within PPSN-2024)

Dear colleagues, As part of the 18th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN 2024), a prime international conference on evolutionary and other randomized search heuristics, we are organizing an informal workshop to celebrate the 30th birthday of estimation-of-distribution algorithms (EDAs), defined here as the 30th anniversary of the definition of the population-based incremental learning (PBIL) algorithm in 1994. We invite researchers and practitioners in the area of estimation-of-distribution algorithms to contribute a short talk to this workshop, covering current or recent own research, discussing important classic results and their impact on the field today, or proposing novel research directions. If you would like to give such a talk, please send us a short abstract by August 7, 2024. For details on the submission process and more information on the workshop, please consult the workshop page at https://30yearsofedas.github.io/index.html All the best, Concha Bielza, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Benjamin Doerr, LIX, École Polytechnique John McCall, Robert Gordon University Weijie Zheng, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen