Special issue at ECJ

Special issue on Reproducibility at Evolutionary Computation Journal

The aim of this special issue is to encourage research that analyses the topic of reproducibility in EC and showcase excellent examples of both reproducible research and reproducibility studies. Within the context of EC, we include non-evolutionary metaheuristics, swarm intelligence methods, stochastic local search, and hybrids with exact methods, i.e., matheuristics. We welcome papers that deal with the topic of reproducibility with a specific focus on the EC context, either by analysing the current state of the field or providing evidence that supports best practices for authors, journals or funding bodies. Furthermore, we also welcome papers that, in addition to an original research contribution to the field of EC, go well above the current standards of reproducibility. Finally, we also welcome high-quality reproducibility studies that attempt to reproduce (by using the materials provided by the original authors) and/or replicate (by reimplementing the materials from scratch) previously published results of interest.