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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"><a href="https://www.springer.com/journal/43069/updates/18357818">https://www.springer.com/journal/43069/updates/18357818</a> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black">Advances, Applications & Challenges in Metaheuristics: In Celebration of the Cuckoo Search Algorithm </span><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black">Overview</span></b><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black">Cuckoo Search, a nature inspired optimization algorithm, was invented by Xin-She Yang (UK) & Suash Deb (India) 10 years ago. Since then it had been proved to be an important & a very useful tool for addressing myriads
of optimization problems, both for industrial applications as well as for theoretical ones. Recently the 1st publication of Cuckoo search, published in the year 2009, reached 5000 citations (Google Scholar). In order to celebrate these milestones, SN Operations
Research Forum intends to publish a special topical collection by assembling a collection of papers and showcasing the recent efforts in the areas of metaheuristics and nature inspired computing. Accordingly, the journal invites manuscripts, which neither
had been published already nor submitted for consideration elsewhere, for this special issue highlighting “Advances, Applications & Challenges in Metaheuristics” to be guest edited by Ka-Chun Wong (Hong Kong) & Thomas Hanne (Switzerland) & due for publication
in 2021. </span><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black">The aim here is to present academicians/researchers/industry professionals/post graduate students some of state-of-the-art research on metaheuristics and the cuckoo algorithm through a cluster of original research contributions
in any aspect of the below areas as well as their novel applications. Articles highlighting the challenges as faced by the researchers and/or envisaged by them as well as comprehensive surveys are also welcome in the aforesaid areas. </span><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black">Along with Cuckoo Search (CS) and the other well-known metaheuristics algorithms like Particle swarm optimization (PSO), Ant colony optimization (ACO), Memetic algorithms, Evolutionary algorithms, Simulated annealing,
Artificial bee colony etc., articles dealing with the following (but not limited to) areas are also solicited: • Artificial immune systems • Chaos optimization • Central Force Optimization • Chicken Swarm Optimization • Earthworm Optimization • Elephant Herding
Optimization • Firefly algorithm • Grey wolf optimization • Harmony search • Monarch butterfly optimization • Rainfall optimization • Sperm Swarm optimization • Tabu search • Wolf search optimization • Whale optimization </span><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black">Guest Editors</span></b><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-HK">Ka-Chun Wong,</span></b><span lang="EN-HK"> Dept. of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (<a href="mailto:kc.w@cityu.edu.hk"><span style="color:#2962FF">kc.w@cityu.edu.hk</span></a>) </span><span lang="EN-HK"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<b><span lang="EN-HK">Thomas Hanne,</span></b><span lang="EN-HK"> Inst. of Information Systems, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland (<a href="mailto:thomas.hanne@fhnw.ch"><span style="color:#2962FF">thomas.hanne@fhnw.ch</span></a>) </span><span lang="EN-HK"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black">Submission Procedure</span></b><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-HK">Papers should be submitted at the SN Operations Research Forum website: <a href="https://www.editorialmanager.com/orfo/default.aspx"><span style="color:#2962FF">https://www.editorialmanager.com/orfo/default.aspx</span></a> </span><span lang="EN-HK"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN-HK">Select Article Type: Manuscript </span><span lang="EN-HK"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN-HK">Upload your files. When the system asks, "Does this manuscript belong to a special issue?" reply: <b>Yes</b>, then choose the option “<b>Advances, Applications & Challenges in Metaheuristics: In Celebration of the Cuckoo Search</b>” </span><span lang="EN-HK"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span lang="EN-HK">Complete the the submission process as required. </span><span lang="EN-HK"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black">Important Dates</span></b><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-HK">Submission Deadline: March 30, 2021 </span><span lang="EN-HK"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span lang="EN-HK">Publication Date: Upon acceptance of each paper </span><span lang="EN-HK"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black">Papers are published upon acceptance, regardless of the Special Issue publication date. </span><span lang="EN-HK" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-HK"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-HK"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-HK">Thanks for attention.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-HK"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-HK">Kind Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-HK">Ka-Chun<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-HK">----------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-HK">Ka-Chun Wong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-HK">BEng, MPhil (CUHK), PhD (Toronto)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-HK">Department of Computer Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-HK">City University of Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-HK"><a href="mailto:kc.w@cityu.edu.hk">kc.w@cityu.edu.hk</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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