Franz Rothlauf was reelected as one of six new members of the executive committee of ACM SIGEVO. Franz will be in office for six years.
The goals he wants to address as SIGEVO officer are:
1) to increase the visibility of SIGEVO (as well as the corresponding conferences and journals) to other scientific communities. Especially important are computer science, operations research, engineering, and
evolutionary biology. Suitable instruments are for example cooperations with other ACM SIGs.
2) to intensify the cooperation and coordination with other professional evolutionary computation societies. It is important to bridge gaps between different groups and opinions and strengthen the overall community.
3) to continue the "internationalization" of SIGEVO. Running GECCO not only in the US but around the world (e.g. London, 2007, Montreal, 2009, and Dublin, 2011) increases its visibility and international reputation.
4) to develop new concepts for conferences with low carbon dioxide emissions. International conferences like GECCO are a great opportunity for exchanging ideas and personal communication but result in high flight emissions. For the long term future, we must find ways how to reduce them.
More information on ACM SIGEVO can be found at http://www.sigevo.org