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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>CALL FOR PAPERS: Matheuristics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Special session at the 9th Metaheuristics International Conference <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>(MIC 2011, http://mic2011.diegm.uniud.it)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Udine (Italy), July 25-28, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Organizers:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Karl Dörner, Universität Wien, Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Vittorio Maniezzo, Universitā degli Studi di Bologna, Italy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES>Celso Ribeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Stefan Voss, Universität Hamburg, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Topics of interest for the session include but are not limited to studies on:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Novel matheuristic frameworks; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Dual information and decomposition in metaheuristics;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Hybridizing metaheuristics with exact methods;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Experimental analysis and modeling of matheuristics;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Real world case histories of matheuristic applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Metaheuristics as exact method components. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Submissions to the special sessions will be through the same submission site and under the same<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>rules as for the main conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Submission Details<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We will accept submissions in three different formats.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>S1) Original research contributions for publication in the conference proceedings of a maximum of 10 pages;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>S2) Extended abstracts of work in progress and position papers on an important research aspect of a maximum of 3 pages;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>S3) High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last six months, been submitted or accepted for journal publication.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Accepted contributions of categories S1 and S2 will be published in the MIC 2011 conference<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>proceedings. The proceedings will have an ISBN number. Accepted contributions of category S3 will<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>be orally presented at the conference, but will not be included into the conference proceedings<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>(neither in the post-conference proceedings). The submission server will be available in January<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Post-conference Publication<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>It has become a tradition of MIC to publish post-conference proceedings in an edited book. Authors<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>of accepted papers in categories S1 and S2 (see submission details) are invited to submit improved<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>and extended versions of their conference papers for publications in the MIC 2011 post-conference<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>volume. The post-conference volume will appear in the Operations Research / Computer Science<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Interfaces series of Springer Verlag (confirmation pending).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>________________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Vittorio Maniezzo, prof. || vittorio.maniezzo@unibo.it<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Department of Computer Science || tel. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>+39 0547 338821<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>University of Bologna || fax. +39 0547 338890<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>via Sacchi, 3, 47023 Cesena, Italy || www.csr.unibo.it/~maniezzo<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>