The Asia-Pacific Symposium on INTELLIGENT AND EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMS first took place in 1997 in Canberra and since then, the Asia-Pacific IES Symposiums have become prestigious incubators of research ideas, as well as facilitators of research collaboration. The Symposiums aim to bring together researchers and practitioners from countries of the Asia-Pacific Region in the fields of intelligent systems and evolutionary computation to present ongoing work, exchange ideas, and discuss future collaboration. Researchers from elsewhere interested in collaboration with researchers from the Asia-Pacific Region are most welcome.
 
The 21st edition of the conference, IES 2017, will be held in Ha Noi, the capital of Vietnam, during November 15-17, 2017, and organized by the Le Quy Don Technical University.