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FINAL Call For Papers - DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS SEPTEMBER 15!!!
Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference - LION (II) 2007.
December 8-13, 2007 - Trento, Italy.
http://www.intelligent-optimization.org/LION2007bis
Building on the success of the first LION meeting in February, 2007, the
LION II
conference aims at bringing together experts actively engaged in research
at the
intersection of machine learning, artificial intelligence, mathematical
programming, and algorithm analysis to discuss novel approaches to
understanding
and solving challenging optimization problems. The conference program will
consist of plenary presentations, introductory and advanced tutorials,
technical
presentations, and discussion sessions. Authors of all accepted original
presentations will be invited to submit their work to a conference
post-proceedings volume to be published by Springer Verlag LNCS.
Additionally, a
special journal issue dedicated to intelligent optimization will follow
publication
of the post- proceedings volume. The publication outlet for the journal
special
issue is currently under negotiation.
Please see the conference web site for full and up-to-date information.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Stochastic local search methods and meta-heuristics
- Reactive search (online self-tuning methods)
- Supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning applied to heuristic
search
- Hybridizations of constraint and mathematical programming with meta-
heuristics
- Memetic algorithms and evolutionary / local search hybrids
- Memory-based optimization
- Model-based meta-heuristics
- Prohibition-based methods (tabu search)
- Penalty-based methods and dynamic local search
- Variable neighborhood search
- Evolutionary algorithms and swarm intelligence methods
- Adaptation of discrete optimization methods to continuous optimization
problems
- Algorithm portfolios and racing algorithms
- Experimental analysis and modeling of algorithms
High-quality scientific contributions to these topics are solicited, in
addition
to advanced case studies from interesting, high-impact application areas.
We also
welcome proposals for advanced tutorial presentations. We will accept
submissions
in the following formats:
- Original novel and unpublished work (max. 15 pages), for publication in
Springer LNCS.
- Manuscripts that have recently been accepted for publication or appeared
within
the last 6 months in a peer-reviewed journal or which are currently
under
review (max. 12 pages).
- A statement of interest / position statement / extended abstract (max. 2
pages).
- Tutorial proposals (max. 1 page).
Each submission will be evaluated according to its relevance to the
meeting,
novelty, technical quality, and presentation.
Statements of interests, position statements, and extended abstracts will
not
appear in the conference post-proceedings volume. All submissions will
appear in
informal proceedings, to be distributed at the conference.
Submissions will be handled according to the following schedule:
September 15, 2007: (Hard) Deadline for submissions.
November 10, 2007: Notification of acceptance.
January 31: Deadline for post-proceedings submissions.
Organization:
Conference Chair: Vittorio Maniezzo, Universita di Bologna (Italy)
Steering Committee Chair, Local Chair: Roberto Battiti, Univ. of Trento
(Italy)
Technical Program Committee Chair: Jean-Paul Watson, Sandia National Labs
(USA)
Technical Program Committee:
Ethem Alpaydin (Turkey), J. Christopher Beck (Canada) Christian Blum
(Spain)
Immanuel Bomze (Austria) Andrea Bonarini (Italy) Juergen Branke (Germany)
Jehoshua Bruck (USA) Carlos Cotta (Spain) Valentin Cristea (Romania)
Marco Dorigo (Belgium) Eugene Freuder (Ireland) Lee Giles (USA)
Michel Gendreau (Canada) Fred W. Glover (USA) Marco Gori (Italy)
Youssef Hamadi (UK) Geir Hasle (Norway) Holger Hoos (Canada)
Zeynep Kiziltan (Italy) Richard E Korf (USA) Elena Marchiori (The
Nederlands)
Lyle A. McGeoch (USA) Peter Merz (Germany) Zbigniew Michalewicz
(Australia)
Nenad Mladenovic (UK) Pablo Moscato (Australia) Amiram Moshaiov (Israel)
Raymond Ng (Canada) Marcello Pelillo (Italy) Vincenzo Piuri (Italy)
Christian Prins (France) Franz Rendl (Austria) Andrea Schaerf (Italy)
Marc Schoenauer (France) Yaroslav D. Sergeyev (Italy) Marc Sevaux (France)
Patrick Siarry (France) Thomas Stuetzle (Belgium) Eric Taillard
(Switzerland)
Stefan Voss (Germany) Benjamin W. Wah (USA) David Woodruff (USA)
Steering committee: Roberto Battiti, Holger Hoos, Mauro Brunato
Tutorial chair: David Woodruff
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society liaison: Andrea Bonarini
Publicity chair: Kenneth Sorensen
Publication liaison: Thomas Stuetzle
Local Organization: Alessandro Villani, Roberto Cascella, Elisa Cilia,
Paolo Campigotto
Support to the Organization: Stefano Poletti Web Chair: Franco Mascia
If you have any questions, please contact Jean-Paul Watson at
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