In the light of increasing registration numbers, we’d like to draw your attention to a dedicated room contingent and a special room rate at the Best Western Parkhotel Hagenberg ****s that we’ve organized for PPSN 2024.

The organization team of the workshop “30 Years of EDAs” has set up a dedicated website for their contribution to this year’s PPSN. Go to 30yearsofedas.github.io to get yourself updated about Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) and join the workshop on September 15, 2024 at PPSN 2024 in Hagenberg, Austria!

We are very pleased to announce Richard Kueng as our third keynoter for this year’s edition of PPSN! He is a full professor at Johannes Kepler University Linz, recipient of the FWF START Award, and an ERC Starting Grant, as well as elected member of the young wing of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2024.

The review results are in: 101 out of 294 paper submissions have been accepted for publication, which is an accepted rate of 34 %. For a full overview go to https://ppsn2024.fh-ooe.at/program/.

The preliminary timetable for PPSN 2024 is now online! Have a look at https://ppsn2024.fh-ooe.at/program/.

The registration system “ConfTool” is now set up for PPSN 2024 and open to receive your registrations! The link to the registration system is https://www.conftool.net/ppsn2024.

The deadline for full paper submissions has been extended from April 5 to April 18, 2024 (deadline interpretation = end of the day, anywhere on earth). We’re looking forward to receive your manuscripts and host you in Hagenberg!

The submission system “EquinOCS” by Springer is now set up for PPSN 2024 and open to receive your full paper manuscript! The link to the submission system is https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/PPSN2024.

We are very pleased to announce Bernardino Romera-Paredes (Google DeepMind) as our second keynoter for this year’s edition of PPSN! He is a former core team member of AlphaFold2 and AlphaTensor and now research scientist at Google DeepMind in London.

We are very pleased to announce Oliver Schütze (CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico-City) as one of our keynoters for this year’s edition of PPSN!

On the second evening of the main conference – Tuesday, September 17, 2024 – the conference dinner will take place at the restaurant of our local brewery “Freistädter Bier”.

On Monday, September 16, 2024 – i.e., the first evening of the main conference – a welcome reception will take place at the Ars Electronica Center (AEC) Linz, where you can enjoy an immersive mixed reality show followed by a flying dinner at the rooftop restaurant.