The 2004 congress.
CEC2004 took place at the Portland Marriott Downtown in Oregon, with tutorials on 19 June and the main conference from 20 to 23 June 2004.
What was CEC2004?
The Congress on Evolutionary Computation was an international forum for research into computational systems that evolve, adapt and optimise. The 2004 event brought together researchers, practitioners and students for technical sessions, tutorials, plenary lectures, competitions and specialist sessions.
| Event | 2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2004) |
|---|---|
| Tutorials | 19 June 2004 |
| Conference | 20–23 June 2004 |
| Venue | Portland Marriott Downtown, Portland, Oregon, USA |
| Proceedings | Two volumes, IEEE, ISBN 0-7803-8515-2 |
| Co-sponsors | IEEE Neural Network Society, Evolutionary Programming Society and Institution of Electrical Engineers |
Plenary lectures
Robert Axelrod — The Future of Cooperation
A special plenary marked twenty years since the influential iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma tournaments. It brought evolutionary reasoning into conversation with cooperation, strategy and social systems.
Xin Yao — How Powerful Is Your Evolutionary Algorithm?
The proceedings record a plenary by Xin Yao examining the power and limits of evolutionary algorithms — a question that remains central to benchmarking and algorithm design.
Una-May O’Reilly — Emergent Design
The bibliographic record also documents a plenary on opportunities for agent-based and evolutionary computation in emergent design.
Special sessions
Special sessions gave focused communities room to explore emerging areas. Surviving pages document sessions including:
- Swarm Intelligence
- Evolutionary Optimisation in Dynamic Environments
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- Evolutionary Scheduling
The RMIT-hosted Swarm Intelligence page preserves its call for papers, organisers, technical committee, topic list and a direct reference to the CEC2004 submission route.
Competitions
The original website listed competition information as part of the technical programme. The available evidence confirms that competitions were held, but the supplied archive does not yet preserve a complete, reliable list of individual competition results. This restoration does not invent missing details.
Historical submission record
Dates changed during conference planning. The later 2004 homepage listed a regular paper deadline of 7 February, author notification on 22 February and camera-ready papers due on 21 March. Individual special sessions sometimes used their own notification dates.
Papers accepted for the conference were published in the proceedings. Current readers should use the source directory and bibliographic records rather than the closed submission system.
Organising committee
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| General Chair | Garrison W. Greenwood |
| Program Chair | Gary Fogel |
| Special Sessions Chair | Sushil Louis |
| Tutorial Chair | Tom English |
| Technical Co-Chairs | Alice Smith, Gerry Dozier, Byoung Tak Zhang, David Corne |
| Competition Chair | Dan Ashlock |
| Proceedings Chair | Yuhui Shi |
| Plenary Chair | Robert Reynolds |
| Web Chair | Tomasz Cholewo |
The full committee and technical review panel are preserved in the IEEE proceedings material linked in the source directory.