[Opt-net] [CFP] Matheuristic track at MIC 2011

[Vittorio Maniezzo]

CALL FOR PAPERS: Matheuristics

Special session at the 9th Metaheuristics International Conference 

(MIC 2011, http://mic2011.diegm.uniud.it)

Udine (Italy), July 25-28, 2011

 

Organizers:

Karl Dörner, Universität Wien, Austria

Vittorio Maniezzo, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy

Celso Ribeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil

Stefan Voss, Universität Hamburg, Germany

 

Matheuristics are increasingly gaining interest in the optimization research
community as a means to get model grounded good quality feasible solutions
for complex optimization problems. The range of problems for which
matheuristic techniques have proved effective has widened, going from the
most theoretic ones to actual real-world case studies. This has been
possible because the range of matheuristic techniques has similarly widened,
showing the high research potential of studies aimed at the design of
generic heuristic methods based on mathematical formulations of the problem
of interest.

This session aims at bringing together the researchers exploiting
mathematical programming (MP) techniques in a metaheuristic framework or
working on granting to mathematical programming approaches the
constrained-CPU-time effectiveness which characterizes metaheuristics. 

 

Topics of interest for the session include but are not limited to studies
on:

* Novel  matheuristic frameworks; 

* Dual information and decomposition in metaheuristics;

* Hybridizing metaheuristics with exact methods;

* Experimental analysis and modeling of matheuristics;

* Real world case histories of matheuristic applications.

* Metaheuristics as exact method components. 

 

Submissions to the special sessions will be through the same submission site
and under the same

rules as for the main conference.

 

Submission Details

We will accept submissions in three different formats.

S1)         Original research contributions for publication in the
conference proceedings of a maximum of 10 pages;

S2)         Extended abstracts of work in progress and position papers on an
important research aspect of a maximum of 3 pages;

S3)         High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last six
months, been submitted or accepted for journal publication.

 

Accepted contributions of categories S1 and S2 will be published in the MIC
2011 conference

proceedings. The proceedings will have an ISBN number. Accepted
contributions of category S3 will

be orally presented at the conference, but will not be included into the
conference proceedings

(neither in the post-conference proceedings). The submission server will be
available in January

2011.

 

Post-conference Publication

It has become a tradition of MIC to publish post-conference proceedings in
an edited book. Authors

of accepted papers in categories S1 and S2 (see submission details) are
invited to submit improved

and extended versions of their conference papers for publications in the MIC
2011 post-conference

volume. The post-conference volume will appear in the Operations Research /
Computer Science

Interfaces series of Springer Verlag (confirmation pending).

 

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Vittorio Maniezzo, prof.           || vittorio.maniezzo at unibo.it

Department of Computer Science     || tel. +39 0547 338821

University of Bologna              || fax. +39 0547 338890

via Sacchi, 3, 47023 Cesena, Italy || www.csr.unibo.it/~maniezzo

 

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