<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="font-family: Consolas;">Dear Friends and Colleagues,</div><div style="font-family: Consolas;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas;">Please be reminded that the deadline for submission to The 6th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing META'16 will be due on May, 6th, 2016.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas;">The META’16 conference will held at Marrakech in Morocco on the Oct 27-31 2016.</div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://meta2016.sciencesconf.org">http://meta2016.sciencesconf.org</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div><div><font face="Consolas">Best regards</font></div></div><div><font face="Consolas">Ilhem Boussaïd Quénel</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas; font-size: 14px;"></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; border-style: solid none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; padding: 1pt 0cm; margin-left: 35.4pt; margin-right: 0cm;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Special Session Call for Papers</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">META'2016 Special Session on </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Metaheuristics for software engineering</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing (META'2016)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; border: none; padding: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">27-31 Oct 2016 Marrakech, Morocco</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;"><b>SCOPE</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;">In the last years, a great interest has been devoted to the application of search-based optimization to Software Engineering, an area known as Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE).<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;">The SBSE approach is of particular interest to researchers and practitioners from the software engineering community because it provides a suite of adaptive automated and semiautomated solutions in situations typified by large complex search space with many conflicting constraints. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;">SBSE has been widely applied to many problems throughout the Software Engineering lifecycle, from requirements and project planning to maintenance and re-engineering.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;">This special session invites the submission of works, which explore the applicability of search-based optimisation techniques in various software engineering related tasks including but not limited to:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 70.85pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Software Testing and Test Data Generation<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 70.85pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Software Maintenance, Refactoring, Program Construction and Transformation<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 70.85pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Verification and Specification<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 70.85pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.75pt;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span>Requirement Engineering<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 70.85pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.75pt;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span>Project Management<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 70.85pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Program Comprehension, Optimization and Analysis<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 70.85pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Software Engineering Predictive Modeling<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 70.85pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Model manipulation and management (transformation, merging, evolution, …)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 70.85pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Developing self-adaptive systems<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 70.85pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Cloud computing<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 70.85pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.75pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Software Product Lines<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 70.85pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -22.75pt;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span>…<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;"><b>IMPORTANT DATES</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 70.85pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -17.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><b>May 6, 2016</b>: Paper submission deadline<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 70.85pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -17.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><b>June 3, 2016</b>: Notification to the authors<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;"><b>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;">This special session will be held as part of the META’16 conference. Please submit your paper using the online submission system, as described in the instructions for authors. During the submission process you should indicate that the paper is for a special session, which is: ‘<b>Metaheuristics for software engineering</b>’. Detailed instructions for submitting the papers are provided on the conference home page at:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://meta2016.sciencesconf.org/" style="color: purple;">http://meta2016.sciencesconf.org/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;"><b>CATEGORIES OF SUBMISSIONS </b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;">Several categories of submissions may be accepted:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 70.85pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -17.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">S1)</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><b>Short papers</b>: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 70.85pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -17.45pt;"><font face="Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;">S2)</span></font><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Long papers</b><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">: Original research contributions of a maximum of 10 pages<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 70.85pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -17.45pt;"><font face="Cambria,serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;">S3)</span></font><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Journal papers</b><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">: High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last year, been submitted or accepted for journal <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>publication<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;"><b>CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS </b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;">Accepted papers in categories <b>S1</b> and <b>S2</b> will be published in the proceedings that will be available at the conference. In addition, a post-conference Springer book and special issue of Journals is planned to be published. Participants will be invited to submit extended versions of their work for consideration.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt;"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt; text-align: justify;"><b>SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS:</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 70.85pt; text-indent: -17.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Ilhem BOUSSAÏD (University of Sciences and Technologies Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Algeria, <a href="mailto:iboussaid@usthb.dz" style="color: purple;">iboussaid@usthb.dz</a>)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 70.85pt; text-indent: -17.45pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">-<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Patrick SIARRY (University of Paris-Est Créteil, France, <a href="mailto:siarry@u-pec.fr" style="color: purple;">siarry@u-pec.fr</a>)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.4pt;"> </p></div></div></div></span></body></html>