Connectionists: CFP OLA'2021 @ Sicilia Italy

[Mario Pavone]

Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP  
to your network.

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                            OLA'2021
            International Conference on Optimization and Learning
                            21-23 June 2021
                        Catania (Sicilia), Italy
                  http://ola2021.sciencesconf.org/
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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.

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 ...

Submission papers: We will accept two different types of submissions:
-       S1: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers  
of a maximum of 3 pages
-       S2: Original research contributions of a maximum of 10 pages

Important dates:
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Invited session organization  Dec 18, 2020
Paper submission deadline     Dec 18, 2020
Notification of acceptance    March 24, 2021

Proceedings: 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.