Parallel Problem Solving from Nature

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Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
Student helpers ready for PPSN 2016 in Edinburgh
Status	Active
Genre	Conference
Frequency	Biennially
Years active	34
Inaugurated	1990 (1990)
Founders	Bernard Manderick, Reinhard Männer, Heinz Mühlenbein and Hans-Paul Schwefel
Most recent	2020
Next event	2022
Area	Europe
Website	https://ppsn2022.cs.tu-dortmund.de/

Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, or PPSN, is a research conference focusing on the topic of natural computing.

Other conferences in the area include the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) and EvoStar (Evo*).

In 2020 PPSN got a CORE rank of A,^[1] corresponding to an "excellent conference, and highly respected in a discipline area".^[2]