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<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>could you please distribute this through the mailing list?</p>
<p>Thank, </p>
<p>Emilio Carrizosa</p>
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<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">SPECIAL ISSUE ON VARIABLE NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH</p>
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<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">JOURNAL OF GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">www.springer.com/10898</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">2011 Impact Factor 1.196</p>
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<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) is a metaheuristic which has shown to</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">be very successful for solving hard combinatorial and global optimization</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">problems.</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">During the EURO Mini-Conference on VNS took place in Herceg Novi,</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">Montenegro, October 4th-7th 2012, researchers all around the world</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">presented their most recent findings on VNS, either from a methodological</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">viewpoint or as applications to real world problems.</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">Authors of papers presented at the EURO Mini-Conference on VNS are</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">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</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">knowledge of VNS. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">Theory and Methodology:</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">* Theoretical or empirical analysis of VNS</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">* New variants of deterministic and stochastic VNS</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">* Continuous global VNS</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">* Mat-heuristics and VNS</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">* Formulation space VNS</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">* Multi-objective VNS</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">* Parallel VNS</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">* VNS hybrids</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">Applications:</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">* Mixed integer programming</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">* Graphs, communication networks</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">* Clustering, data mining, location</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">* Inventory, routing, supply chains</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">* Packing and covering</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">* Discovery sciences</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">* Other real world problems</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">Before submission authors should carefully read over the journals Author</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">Guidelines. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">complete manuscript through the journal's editorial manager</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">http://jogo.edmgr.com/ and specifying that their paper is for the special</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">issue "SI: VNS 2012". Manuscript deadline: 31st December 2012.</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">GUEST EDITORS</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">Emilio Carrizosa, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, ecarrizosa@us.es</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">Pierre Hansen, GERAD and École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Canada,</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">pierre.hansen@gerad.ca</p>
<p style="-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px;">José A. Moreno, Universidad de la Laguna, Spain, jamoreno@ull.es</p>
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