Connectionists: META'2018 International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing
Mario Pavone
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Tue Feb 6 16:50:54 EST 2018
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META'2018
International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing
27-31 Oct 2018
Marrakech, Morocco
http://meta2018.sciencesconf.org/
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META is one of the main event focusing on the progress of the area of
metaheuristics and their applications. As in previous editions,
META?2018 will provide an opportunity to the international research
community in metaheuristics to discuss recent research results, to
develop new ideas and collaborations, and to meet old friends and make
new ones in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.
All selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Following the tradition, selected long papers will be published in a
postponed Springer book as in META'2014 and META'2016.
At least, 2 special special issues in ISI and SCOPUS journals are also
confirmed:
- Special issue in Optimization and learning in Wiley Journal ITOR -
International Journal on Operational Research (deadline for
submission: 31 May 2018)
- Special issue in Metaheuristics for 4.0 industry in Elsevier
Journal Swarm-and-Evolutionary-Computation (deadline for submission:
31 May 2018)
META'2018 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of
metaheuristic research such as new algorithmic developments,
high-impact applications, new research challenges, theoretical
developments, implementation issues, and in-depth experimental
studies. META'2018 strives for a high-quality program that will be
completed by a number of invited talks, tutorials, workshops and
special sessions.
The scope of the META?2018 conference includes, but is not limited to:
* Local search, tabu search, simulated annealing, VNS, ILS, ?
* Evolutionary algorithms, swarm optimization, scatter search, ?
* Emergent nature inspired algorithms: quantum computing,
artificial immune systems, bee colony, DNA computing, ?
* Parallel algorithms
* Hybrid methods with machine learning, game theory,
mathematical programming, constraint programming, co-evolutionary, ?
* Application to: logistics and transportation, networks,
scheduling, data mining, engineering design, energy, cloud,
bio-medical, ?
* Theory of metaheuristics, landscape analysis, convergence,
problem difficulty, very large neighbourhoods, ?
* Multi-objective optimization, bi-level optimization
* Dynamic optimization, problems with uncertainty, ?
* Parameter tuning (static, dynamic, adaptive, self-adaptive)
* Hyper-heuristics, cross-domain metaheuristics
* Software frameworks for metaheuristics and nature inspired computing
Submission of papers:
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- Submission of papers via the website
S1) Short papers: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and
position papers of a maximum of 3 pages.
S2) Long papers: Original research contributions of a maximum of
10 pages.
S3) Journal papers: High-quality manuscripts that have recently,
within the last year, been submitted or accepted for journal
publication. For this special case, the submission should have the
same title that the accepted work, the abstract AND the complete
reference of the work.
- Proceedings of the conference will be provided. Selected papers of
type S1 and S2 will be published in a Springer book and international
journals (ISI journals).
- Predefined styles are available on the website
http://meta2018.sciencesconf.org/
- Proposals for invited sessions, workshops and tutorials: Deadline
15th March 2018. contact meta2018 at sciencesconf.org
Important dates
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- Submission deadline: April 13, 2018
- Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2018
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