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<p>Dear colleagues,<br />I would appreciate if you could distribute this announcement of change in the dealine through your<br />mail list.<br /><br />Best wishes and Merry Christmas,<br /><br />Emilio Carrizosa<br /><br /><br />******************************************************<br />SPECIAL ISSUE ON VARIABLE NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH<br />******************************************************<br /><br />DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 31.01.13<br /><br />******************************************************<br /><br />JOURNAL OF GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION<br />www.springer.com/10898<br />2011 Impact Factor 1.196<br />******************************************************<br /><br />Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) is a metaheuristic which has shown to<br />be very successful for solving hard combinatorial and global optimization<br />problems.<br />During the EURO Mini-Conference on VNS took place in Herceg Novi,<br />Montenegro, October 4th-7th 2012, researchers all around the world<br />presented their most recent findings on VNS, either from a methodological<br />viewpoint or as applications to real world problems.<br />Authors of papers presented at the EURO Mini-Conference on VNS are<br />especially encouraged to submit their work to this special issue in the<br />Journal of Global Optimization. However, the issue is open to all<br />researchers who can contribute to a better<br />knowledge of VNS. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:<br />Theory and Methodology:<br />* Theoretical or empirical analysis of VNS<br />* New variants of deterministic and stochastic VNS<br />* Continuous global VNS<br />* Mat-heuristics and VNS<br />* Formulation space VNS<br />* Multi-objective VNS<br />* Parallel VNS<br />* VNS hybrids<br />Applications:<br />* Mixed integer programming<br />* Graphs, communication networks<br />* Clustering, data mining, location<br />* Inventory, routing, supply chains<br />* Packing and covering<br />* Discovery sciences<br />* Other real world problems<br />Before submission authors should carefully read over the journals Author<br />Guidelines. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their<br />complete manuscript through the journal's editorial manager<br />http://jogo.edmgr.com/ and specifying that their paper is for the special<br />issue "SI: VNS 2012".<br /><br />GUEST EDITORS<br />Emilio Carrizosa, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, ecarrizosa@us.es<br />Pierre Hansen, GERAD and École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Canada,<br />pierre.hansen@gerad.ca<br />José A. Moreno, Universidad de la Laguna, Spain, jamoreno@ull.es<br /><br /><br /><br /></p>
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