<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class="">Apologies for cross-posting.<br class="">Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">****************************************************************<br class=""><br class="">OLA'2021<br class=""><br class="">International Conference on Optimization and Learning<br class=""><br class="">21-23 June 2021<br class=""><br class="">Catania (Sicilia), Italy<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://ola2021.sciencesconf.org/" class="">http://ola2021.sciencesconf.org/</a><br class=""><br class="">****************************************************************<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">OLA is a conference focusing on the future challenges of optimization and learning methods and their applications. The conference OLA'2021 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in optimization and learning to discuss recent research results and to develop new ideas and collaborations in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.<br class=""><br class="">OLA'2021 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of optimization and learning research such as big optimization and learning, optimization for learning, learning for optimization, optimization and learning under uncertainty, deep learning, new high-impact applications, parameter tuning, 4th industrial revolution, computer vision, hybridization issues, optimization-simulation, meta-modeling, high-performance computing, parallel and distributed optimization and learning, surrogate modeling, multi-objective optimization ...<br class=""><br class="">* Submission papers: We will accept two different types of submissions:<br class=""><br class="">- S1: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages<br class=""><br class="">- S2: Original research contributions of a maximum of 10 pages<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">* Important dates:<br class=""><br class="">===============<br class=""><br class="">Invited session organization Dec 18, 2020<br class=""><br class="">Paper submission deadline Dec 18, 2020<br class=""><br class="">Notification of acceptance March 24, 2021<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">* Proceedings:<br class="">Accepted papers in categories S1 and S2 will be published in the proceedings. A SCOPUS and DBLP indexed Springer book will be published for best accepted long papers. All proceedings will be available at the conference.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">* Conference Steering Committee Chair<br class="">El-Ghazali Talbi (Univ. Lille & INRIA, France)<br class=""><br class="">* Conference Chairs<br class="">Mario Pavone (Univ. Catania, Italy)<br class="">Lionel Amodeo (UTT, France)<br class=""><br class="">* Conference Program Chairs<br class="">Bernabé Dorronsoro (Univ. Cadiz, Spain)<br class="">Vincenzo Cutello (Univ. Catania, Italy)<br class=""><br class="">* Organization Committee<br class="">Rocco A. Scollo (Univ. Catania, Italy)<br class="">Antonio M. Spampinato (Univ. Catania, Italy)<br class="">Georgia Fargetta (Univ. Catania, Italy)<br class="">Carolina Crespi (Univ. Catania, Italy)<br class="">Jeremy Sadet (Univ. Lille, France)<br class="">Rachid Ellaia (EMI, Morocco)<br class=""><br class="">* Publicity Chairs<br class="">Juan J. Durillo (Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany)<br class="">Grégoire Danoy (Univ. Luxembourg, Luxembourg)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Aco-list mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Aco-list@iridia.ulb.ac.be" class="">Aco-list@iridia.ulb.ac.be</a><br class=""><a href="https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aco-list" class="">https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aco-list</a></body></html>