1. Dedicated EC Conferences:
  GECCO: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
     Major  international  conference  held anually in North America since
     1999.  It is organised by ISGEC (International  Society  for  Genetic
     and  Evolutionary  Computation)  (see  http://www.isgec.org  ). GECCO
     combines  the  previously  separate  ICGA  and  Genetic   Programming
     conferences.  Covers all aspects of EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION.

     The 2000 conference was held on July 8-12 in Las Vegas, USA.  Details
     from http://www.genetic-algorithm.org

     The 1999 conference was held on  July  14--17  in  Orlando,  Florida.
     Details from http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/gecco/

  ICGA: International Conference on Genetic Algorithms
     Major  international conference held in North America in odd-numbered
     years between 1985 and  1999.  Covers  all  aspects  of  EVOLUTIONARY
     COMPUTATION.   Since 1999, this conference has been combined with the
     annual Genetic Programming conference, and titled GECCO (see  above).

     The  1999  conference  was  held  on July 14--17 in Orlando, Florida.
     Details from http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/gecco/

     The 1997 conference was at Michigan State University,  East  Lansing,
     USA. Details from http://GARAGe.cps.msu.edu/icga97/index.html

     Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Genetic Algorithms
     (1985) J.J. Grefenstette (ed) [ICGA85]: and Proc. of  the  2nd  Int'l
     Conf.  on  Genetic Algorithms (1987) J.J. Grefenstette (ed) [ICGA87]:
     available from  Lawrence  Erlbaum  Associates,  Inc.,  365  Broadway,
     Hillsdale, New Jersey, 07642, (800) 926-6579.

     Proc.  of  the  3rd  Int'l  Conf.  on  Genetic Algorithms (1989) J.D.
     Schaffer (ed) [ICGA89]: and Proc. of the 4th Int'l Conf.  on  Genetic
     Algorithms  (1991)  R.K.  Belew  and  L.B. Booker (eds) [ICGA91]: and
     Proc. of the 5th Int'l Conf. on Genetic Algorithms (1993) S.  Forrest
     (ed) [ICGA93]: and Proc. of the 6th Int'l Conf. on Genetic Algorithms
     (1995) [ICGA95]: available from Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San
     Francisco (415-392-2665). <morgan@unix.sri.com>

  FOGA: Foundations of Genetic Algorithms
     Major  international  workshop focusing on theoretical aspects of EC,
     that's usually limited to some 50 participants and  is  usually  held
     somewhere in North America.  FOGA 5, however, was held in Leiden, The
     Netherlands    on    24-26    September    1998.    Details     from:
     http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/CS/ALP/foga98.html

     Foundations   of   Genetic  Algorithms  (1991)  G.J.E.  Rawlins  (ed)
     [FOGA91]: and Foundations of Genetic Algorithms 2 (1993) L.D. Whitley
     [FOGA93]:  available  from  Morgan  Kaufmann  Publishers,  Inc.,  San
     Francisco (415-392-2665). <morgan@unix.sri.com>

     FOGA  3  took  place  in  1994.   Enquires   to:   Darrell   Whitley,
     <whitley@cs.colostate.edu>.   FOGA  4 took place from August 3-5 1996
     in       San       Diego,       California.        Details       from
     http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/galist/foga/

  PPSN: Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
     Major international conference held in Europe in even-numbered years.
     Covers all aspects of problem solving inspired by natural  processes.
     The 1998 conference was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September
     27        -        October        1.        Information         from:
     http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/CS/ALP/ppsn98.html Further information on
     all       PPSN       conferences       is       available       from:
     http://LS11-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/PPSN/

     Parallel  Problem  Solving  from Nature, (1990) H.-P. Schwefel and R.
     Maenner (eds) [PPSN90]: published by Springer-Verlag, 175 5th Avenue,
     New  York,  NY, 10010, (212) 460-1500.  Parallel Problem Solving from
     Nature 2,  (1992)  R.  Maenner  and  B.   Manderick  (eds)  [PPSN92]:
     published   by   North-Holland,  Elsevier  Science  Publishers,  Sara
     Burgerhartstraat  25,  P.O.  Box  211,   1000   AE   Amsterdam,   The
     Netherlands.   Parallel  Problem  Solving  from  Nature  3, (1994) Y.
     Davidor (ed.), [PPSN94]: PPSN96 was held in Berlin, September 1996.

  EP: Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming
     Major international  annual  conference  held  in  USA.   Covers  all
     aspects  of  EC  with  emphasis  on  EP  related  research.  The 1999
     conference was held in conjunction with the ICEC (See below).

     The 1997 conference was held on April 13-16 in Indianapolis.  Details
     from Pete Angeline <pja@lfs.loral.com>.  The 1996 conference was held
     on Feb 29-March 3.  The  1995  conference  was  held  on  March  1-4.
     Details from David Fogel <fogel@sunshine.ucsd.edu>.

     Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming,
     (1992) D.B. Fogel and W. Atmar (eds), [EP92]:, and Proc. of  the  2nd
     Annual  Conf.  on  Evolutionary Programming, (1993) D.B. Fogel and W.
     Atmar  (eds),  [EP93]:  published  by  the  Evolutionary  Programming
     Society,  9363  Towne  Centre  Dr.,  San  Diego, CA 92121, Attn: Bill
     Porto,  Treasurer  (cf  Q13).   Proceedings  of  the   Third   Annual
     Conference  on  Evolutionary Programming, (1994) A.V. Sebald and L.J.
     Fogel (eds), [EP94]:, World Scientific Publishers, River Edge, NJ.

  CEC: Congress on Evolutionary Computation
     Major international conference covering all aspects of EC.  Prior  to
     1999  it  was  called the IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation
     (ICEC).  Since 1999 it has been titled the Congress  on  Evolutionary
     Computation,  (CEC)  and is held in conjunction with the Evolutionary
     Programming Conference (EP) and  Genetic  Algorithms  in  Engineering
     Systems:  Innovations  and  Applications  (GALESIA).   It  is jointly
     sponsored by the  IEEE  Neural  Networks  Council,  the  Evolutionary
     Programming   Society   (EPS),  and  the  Institution  of  Electrical
     Engineers (IEE).

     The eigth conference will be held in Seoul,  Korea,  from  27-30  May
     2001.  Details from http://cec2001.kaist.ac.kr/

     The  seventh  conference  was held in San Diego, USA, from 16-19 July
     2000. Details from http://pcgipseca.cee.hw.ac.uk/cec2000/main.html

     The sixth conference was held in Washington DC, from 6-9  July  1999.
     Details from http://garage.cps.msu.edu/cec99/ .  The fifth conference
     was held in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, from May 4-9 1998.  Details  from
     http://www.arc.unm.edu/wcci-98/icec.html  .   The fourth was on April
     14-17 1997 in Indianapolis (in conjunction with EP97).  The third was
     on    May    20-22    1996    in    Nagoya,   Japan,   details   from
     http://www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/ICEC96/ . The second was on  29
     Nov--1    Dec    1995    in    Perth,    Australia.    Details   from
     <ec95@ee.uwa.edu.au> .  The first took place  in  June  1994  at  the
     World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Florida.

     Proceedings  of  the 1st IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation,
     (1994) D.B. Fogel (ed.) (2 Volumes).  Published  by  IEEE,  445  Hoes
     Lane,  PO  Box  1331,  Piscataway,  NJ  08855-1331.  Also, talks from
     invited  speakers  are  published  in   "Computational   Intelligence
     Imitating  Life" (1994) J.M. Zurada, R.J. Marks, C.J. Robinson (eds),
     IEEE.

  Genetic Programming
     Since 1999,  the  annual  Genetic  Programming  conference  has  been
     combined with the ICGA, to make GECCO (see above).

     The  1998  conference  dedicated  to GP was held on July 22-25 at the
     University of Winconsin.   Details  of  the  GP  conferences  can  be
     obtained    from:    http://www.genetic-programming.org    or    from
     <gp@aaai.org>.

     The first conference  was  held  on  July  28--31  1996  at  Stanford
     University,            California.            Details           from:
     http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~zippy/gp-96.html

     The third European Conference on  Genetic  Programming  was  held  in
     Edingurgh,    UK,    on    15-16    April    2000.    Details    from
     http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rmp/eebic/eurogp2000/

 2. Related Conferences:
  Alife: International Conference on Artificial Life
     Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on  ARTIFICIAL  LIFE,
     (1989)  C.G. Langton (ed), Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences
     of Complexity, Proc. Vol. VI, [ALIFEI]: and Proc. of  the  2nd  Int'l
     Conf. on Artificial Life II, (1992) C.G. Langton, C. Taylor, J. Doyne
     Farmer and S. Rasmussen (eds), Santa  Fe  Institute  Studies  in  the
     Sciences of Complexity, Proc. Vol. X, [ALIFEII]: and Proc. of the 3rd
     Int'l Conf.  on  Artificial  Life  III,  (1993)  C.G.  Langton  (ed),
     [ALIFEIII]: published by Addison Wesley, Redwood City, CA, USA.

     Artificial  life  IV,  was  organized  by  Rodney Brooks, MIT AI Lab,
     <alife@ai.mit.edu> and held on July 6-8, 1994. Proceedings edited  by
     R. Brooks and P. Maes. [ALIFEIV]:

  ECAL: European Conference on Artificial Life
     Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Artificial life, (1991)
     F.J. Varela and P. Bourgine (eds), [ECAL91]: and  Proc.  of  the  2nd
     European  Conf.  on  ALIFE:  Self-organization  and life, from simple
     rules to  global  complexity,  (1993),  (?  eds)  (?  pub)  [ECAL93]:
     published by MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA.

  ECML: European Conference on Machine Learning
     Machine  Learning: ECML-93, Proc. European Conf. on Machine Learning,
     (1993) P.B. Brazil (ed), [ECML93]: published by Springer,  New  York,
     NY, USA.

  ICANNGA:  International  Conference  on  Artificial  Neural Networks and
     Genetic Algorithms
     Held every 2 years since 1993. The 1997 conference was on  April  1-4
     in          Norwich,          England.          Details          from
     http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/Research/ResGroups/MAG/ICANNGA97/

  SAB: International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior
     From  Animals  to  Animats.  Proceedings  of  the  1st  International
     Conference  on SIMULATION of Adaptive Behavior, (1991) [SAB90]: J.-A.
     Meyer and S.W. Wilson, ISBN 0-262-63138-5, and Proc. of the 2nd Int'l
     Conf.  on  Simulation  of  Adaptive  Behavior, (1993) [SAB92]:, J.-A.
     Meyer, H. Roitblat and S.W. Wilson (eds) and Proc. of the  3rd  Int'l
     Conf.  on  Simulation  of  Adaptive  Behavior, [SAB94]:, P. Husbands,
     J.-A. Meyer and S.W. Wilson (eds) published by MIT Press,  Cambridge,
     MA, USA.

     SAB96  took  place  on  September  9-13,  1996  in  Cape Cod, MA USA.
     Details from http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/conferences/sab96

 3. Pointers to upcoming Conferences:
  The Genetic Algorithm Digest
     Aka "GA-Digest" always starts with a "Calendar of GA-related Events,"
     i.e.   a list of upcoming conferences, covering the complete field of
     EAs (see Q15.1), available from http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/galist/

  The Artificial Life Digest
     Aka "Alife digest" always starts with a  "Calendar  of  Alife-related
     Events," that lists conferences, workshops, etc. (cf Q15)

  The Evolutionary Programming Digest
     Aka   "EP-digest"  doesn't  list  conferences  explicitly,  like  the
     previously mentioned ones, but carries most CFP's; that can be looked
     at  in  the backissues folder: amazon.eng.fau.edu/pub/ep-list/digest/
     (cf Q15)