Call for Papers
Annals of Operations Research
Special Issue on "STOCHASTIC SEARCH ALGORITHMS"
Guest Editors: Holger H. Hoos and Thomas Stuetzle
(extended deadline)
Stochastic search algorithms strongly use randomised decisions while
searching for solutions to a given problem. They play an important
role for practically solving hard combinatorial problems from various
domains of Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence, such as
scheduling, routing, constraint satisfaction, satisfiability,
planning, and many other application areas. Over the past few years
there has been considerable success in developing stochastic local
search algorithms as well as randomised systematic search methods for
solving these problems. To date, for many problem domains, the best
known algorithms are based on stochastic search techniques. The
increasing relevance and popularity of these methods in OR and AI is
reflected by the large number of publications in journals and at major
conferences.
This special issue will comprise publications on topics in stochastic
search techniques, including the following:
- stochastic local search algorithms
- randomised systematic search methods
- metaheuristics, learning techniques, and self-tuning algorithms
- design and implementation of stochastic search algorithms
- parallelisation and portfolios of stochastic search algorithms
- empirical analysis and evaluation of stochastic search algorithms
- theoretical results on stochastic search algorithms
- new applications of stochastic search
General information on Annals of Operations Research can be found
at http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0254-5330.
Up-to-date information on the special issue is available from
http://www.stochastic-local-search.net/anor-04.html
Deadline
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The deadline for submission is October 31, 2004.
Please note that all papers will be thoroughly refereed according to
the high standards of AOR.
Submission
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To submit a paper, email it (or a URL pointer to it) in pdf format to
hoos no@spam cs.ubc.ca and stuetzle no@spam informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
before October 31, 2004.
Electronic submission is strongly preferable over submission of
hardcopies.
Only if electronic submission is not possible out of any reasons, please
mail 4 copies of it to either
Prof. Holger H. Hoos
Department of Computer Science
The University of British Columbia
2366 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4
Canada
or
Dr. Thomas Stuetzle
Department of Computer Science
Darmstadt University of Technology
Alexanderstr.10
64283 Darmstadt
Germany
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