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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Special Issue Guest Editors: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:10.0pt">Dr. Pablo Rabanal, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:10.0pt">Dr. Ismael Rodríguez, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:10.0pt">Dr. Fernando Rubio, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="ES"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">CALL FOR PAPERS <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US">A Special Issue of the Journal of Systems and Information Technology on Optimisation Solutions in Systems<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Aims and Scope<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Optimisation is a major necessity in Science and Engineering. No matter if we want to reduce the amount of needed resources to perform a task or maximize the output of some process, so often
the difficulty of making the right decisions can be rephrased as some kind of optimisation problems. Unfortunately, for many optimisation problems finding the optimal solution is not feasible in general due to the hardness of the problem —moreover, for some
of them we cannot even guarantee any constant ratio between the quality of the optimal solution and the quality of any solution found in reasonable time. Despite these disheartening theoretical limits, optimisation problems appear whenever there is a sophisticated
system, so we do have to face them by some means —necessarily non-exhaustive methods. Some of these methods are specific to the problem under consideration, whereas others are adaptations of general optimization heuristics (metaheuristics) to the studied problem.
Typically, the latter search for solutions similar to the most promising observed ones, or their combinations, for example by making some simple entities interact with each other according to simple rules and collaboratively construct new solutions. Within
this category we can find evolutionary computation methods and swarm optimization methods, which are sometimes inspired by some natural process. Regardless of the method selected to tackle a hard optimization problem, the difficulty of the problem and the
performance of the best known heuristics for the problem may have a high impact on the application field the problem belongs to, since the difficulty of a scientific or engineering process can be, to some extent, due to the computational difficulty of the
underlying optimization problem it implicitly poses. The goal of this special issue is to introduce new research, or comprehensive compilations of existing ones, on optimisation techniques for engineering systems, and their applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">We solicit contributions related, but not limited to the following topics:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">ˇ<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU">New optimisation algorithms and metaheuristics, enhancement of existing ones<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">ˇ<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU">Problem-specific and generic optimisation methods<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">ˇ<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU">Comparison of optimisation algorithms and metaheuristics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">ˇ<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU">Nature inspired metaheuristics, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">ˇ<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU">Classification and generalization of metaheuristics, hybridisation of methods<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">ˇ<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU">Optimisation problems on real data, case studies
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">ˇ<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU">Benchmark usage and generation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">ˇ<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU">Optimisation hardness, complexity of problems and optimisation algorithms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">ˇ<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU">Impact of the optimisation difficulty on Social Sciences, Natural Sciences and Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">ˇ<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU">Comprehensive compilations of the state of art on any aspect of optimisation<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We encourage submissions from both academics and practitioners.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Submission Procedure<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Full papers should be submitted to: <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jsit"><b><span lang="EN-US">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jsit</span></b></a><b>
</b><span lang="EN-US">(all manuscripts should follow the submission guidelines available at
</span><a href="http://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=jsit"><span lang="EN-US">http://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=jsit</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">You must first create an author account in the system if you do not have one. Once registered, you will see the Author Centre button when you sign in to your account. Click on the ‘click here to submit a new manuscript’
link, which will take you through to the Manuscript Submission page. Follow the instructions to complete all fields and browse to upload your manuscript. At the ‘please select the issue you are submitting to’ dropdown list (under Details & Comments) please
choose <b>“Special Issue on Optimisation Solutions in Systems”</b>.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Important dates:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">ˇ<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU">Please submit papers on or before October 1<sup>st</sup> 2017. All submissions will be peer-reviewed following the review process of the Journal of Systems and Information Technology. (Prospective authors are
encouraged to indicate their interests any time before the submission deadline)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">ˇ<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU">Notification of results: December 15<sup>th</sup> 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">ˇ<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU">Final submission: January 31<sup>st</sup> 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">ˇ<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-AU">The special issue will be published in June 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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