Connectionists: Extended deadline OLA'2021 @Sicilia Italy

[Mario Pavone]

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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 ...


* KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Vittorio Maniezzo, University of Bologna, Italy
"Machine Learning and combinatorial optimization, some posSible  
catalytic effects"


* 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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Paper submission deadline     Extended to Feb 05, 2021
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 accepted long papers. All proceedings will be available at
the conference.


* Conference Steering Committee Chair
El-Ghazali Talbi (Univ. Lille & INRIA, France)

* Conference Chairs
Mario Pavone (Univ. Catania, Italy)
Lionel Amodeo (UTT, France)

* Conference Program Chairs
Bernabé Dorronsoro (Univ. Cadiz, Spain)
Vincenzo Cutello (Univ. Catania, Italy)

* Organization Committee
Rocco A. Scollo (Univ. Catania, Italy)
Antonio M. Spampinato (Univ. Catania, Italy)
Georgia Fargetta (Univ. Catania, Italy)
Carolina Crespi (Univ.  Catania, Italy)
Jeremy Sadet (Univ. Lille, France)
Rachid Ellaia (EMI, Morocco)

* Publicity Chairs
Juan J. Durillo (Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany)
Grégoire Danoy (Univ. Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

-- 
Mario F. Pavone, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Catania
V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy
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