[Opt-Net] SPECIAL ISSUE ON VARIABLE NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH

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Emilio Carrizosa


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SPECIAL ISSUE
ON VARIABLE NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH


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JOURNAL OF
GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION 

www.springer.com/10898 

2011 Impact Factor 1.196


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Variable
Neighborhood Search (VNS) is a metaheuristic which has shown to 

be
very successful for solving hard combinatorial and global optimization


problems. 

During the EURO Mini-Conference on VNS took place in
Herceg Novi, 

Montenegro, October 4th-7th 2012, researchers all around
the world 

presented their most recent findings on VNS, either from a
methodological 

viewpoint or as applications to real world problems.


Authors of papers presented at the EURO Mini-Conference on VNS are


especially encouraged to submit their work to this special issue in
the Journal of Global Optimization. However, the issue is open to all
researchers who can contribute to a better 

knowledge of VNS. Potential
topics include, but are not limited to: 

Theory and Methodology: 

*
Theoretical or empirical analysis of VNS 

* New variants of
deterministic and stochastic VNS 

* Continuous global VNS 

*
Mat-heuristics and VNS 

* Formulation space VNS 

* Multi-objective VNS


* Parallel VNS 

* VNS hybrids 

Applications: 

* Mixed integer
programming 

* Graphs, communication networks 

* Clustering, data
mining, location 

* Inventory, routing, supply chains 

* Packing and
covering 

* Discovery sciences 

* Other real world problems 

Before
submission authors should carefully read over the journals Author


Guidelines. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of
their 

complete manuscript through the journal's editorial manager


http://jogo.edmgr.com/ and specifying that their paper is for the
special 

issue "SI: VNS 2012". Manuscript deadline: 31st December 2012.


GUEST EDITORS 

Emilio Carrizosa, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain,
ecarrizosa at us.es 

Pierre Hansen, GERAD and École des Hautes Etudes
Commerciales, Canada, 

pierre.hansen at gerad.ca 

José A. Moreno,
Universidad de la Laguna, Spain, jamoreno at ull.es 
 
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