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META'2016
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International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired
Computing
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27-31 Oct 2016
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Marrakech, Morocco
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META is one of the main event focusing on the progress of the area
of metaheuristics and their applications. As in previous editions,
META’2016 will provide an opportunity to the international
research community in metaheuristics to discuss recent research
results, to develop new ideas and collaborations, and to meet old
friends and make new ones in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.
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META'2016 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of
metaheuristic research such as new algorithmic developments,
high-impact applications, new research challenges, theoretical
developments, implementation issues, and in-depth experimental
studies. META'2016 strives for a high-quality program that will be
completed by a number of invited talks, tutorials, workshops and
special sessions.
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The scope of the META’2016 conference includes, but is not limited
to:
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* Local search, tabu search, simulated annealing, VNS, ILS, …
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* Evolutionary algorithms, swarm optimization, scatter search,
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* Emergent nature inspired algorithms: quantum computing,
artificial immune systems, bee colony, DNA computing, …
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* Parallel algorithms
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* Hybrid methods with machine learning, game theory,
mathematical programming, constraint programming, co-evolutionary,
…
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* Application to: logistics and transportation, networks,
scheduling, data mining, engineering design, energy, cloud,
bio-medical, …
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* Theory of metaheuristics, landscape analysis, convergence,
problem difficulty, very large neighbourhoods, …
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* Multi-objective optimization, bi-level optimization
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* Dynamic optimization, problems with uncertainty, …
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* Parameter tuning (static, dynamic, adaptive, self-adaptive)
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* Hyper-heuristics, cross-domain metaheuristics
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* Software frameworks for metaheuristics and nature inspired
computing
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Submission of papers:
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- Submission of papers via the website
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S1) Short papers: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and
position papers of a maximum of 3 pages.
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S2) Long papers: Original research contributions of a maximum
of 10 pages.
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S3) Journal papers: High-quality manuscripts that have
recently, within the last year, been submitted or accepted for
journal publication. For this special case, the submission should
have the same title that the accepted work, the abstract AND the
complete reference of the work.
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- Proceedings of the conference will be provided. Selected papers
of type S1 and S2 will be published in a Springer book and
international journals (ISI journals).
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- Predefined styles are available on the website <a
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href="http://meta2016.sciencesconf.org/"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://meta2016.sciencesconf.org/">http://meta2016.sciencesconf.org/</a></a>
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- Proposals for invited sessions, workshops and tutorials:
Deadline 15th April 2016. contact <a
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href="mailto:el-ghazali.talbi@univ-lille1.fr"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:el-ghazali.talbi@univ-lille1.fr">el-ghazali.talbi@univ-lille1.fr</a></a>
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Important dates
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- Extended Submission deadline: May 27, 2016
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- Notification of acceptance: June 3, 2016
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E-G. Talbi (Conference Chair)
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META'2016
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Marrakech, 27-31 Oct 2016
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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Prof. E-G. Talbi
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Univ. Lille, CNRS, INRIA
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