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EMO 2009 - Deadline extension and 2nd Call for Papers

5th International Conference on "Evolutionary Multi-Criterion
Optimization"

April 07-10, 2009. Nantes, France

Home Page: http://www.emo09.org

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** NEWS
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- Submission DEADLINE EXTENDED: October 15, 2008

- MCDM Track

- Keynote and Tutorial Speakers

- First day open to EU/ME members, free of charge

Please see below for more details.

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** The EMO conference series
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EMO is an International conference series devoted to Evolutionary 
Multi-Criterion Optimization. This conference brings together researchers 
and practitioners from different disciplines of Computer Science, 
Operational Research, Optimization Engineering, Mathematical Programming 
and Multi-Criteria Analysis. Theoretical results and algorithmic 
developments in the field of EMO will be covered, including practice and 
applications of EMO in real-life situations.

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** EMO 2009, Nantes - France
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Nantes (Brittany, West of France) will host EMO in 2009: the Fifth 
International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization 
(EMO'09), "where optimization technologies meet EMO". Previous conferences 
in the series were held in Matsushima (Japan) in 2007, Guanajuato (Mexico) 
in 2005, Faro (Portugal) in 2003, and Zurich (Switzerland) in 2001.

The conference will take place in the Faculty of Sciences, University of 
Nantes, which is located downtown along the Erdre river. The event is 
organized in collaboration with Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Ecole des Mines 
de Nantes, University of Angers, University of South Brittany, and the 
National Center for Scientific Research.

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** MCDM Track
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To foster the interaction between the EMO community and other scientific 
communities, papers on all aspects of multiobjective optimization and/or 
multicriterion decision making are invited for a special MCDM Track, which 
will be an integral part of the EMO Conference. As such, guidelines for 
submission are the same as for the main conference track, as is the 
peer-review procedure.

MCDM Track Chair: José Figueira (IST, Portugal)

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** Submission/Publication
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All contributions submitted for presentation at the conference will be 
selected on the basis of a full paper. Authors are invited to submit 
original, full-length papers (maximum 15 pages). Further information and 
instructions may be found on the conference web site under « Author 
Instructions ».

All papers submitted will be reviewed by the international programme 
committee. All accepted papers (1) will be included in the EMO'09 
proceedings, published by Springer as a volume of the Lecture Notes in 
Computer Science (LNCS), and (2) will be scheduled for either oral or 
poster presentation at the conference.

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** Keynote and Tutorial speakers
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So far, the following invited speakers have confirmed their participation 
in EMO'09. Additional speakers will be announced on the conference website 
as confirmation is received.

Keynote addresses:

Kathrin Klamroth (University of Wuppertal, Germany)
http://www.math.uni-wuppertal.de/~klamroth/
Topic : discrete multiobjective optimization

Pascal Van Henteryck (Brown University, USA)
http://www.cs.brown.edu/~pvh/pvhHome/Bio.html
Topic : constraint programming

Tutorial:

Thomas Stuetzle (IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~stuetzle/
Topic : Ant Colony Optimization

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** First day open to EU/ME members
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The first day of the conference, which will include two two-hour 
tutorials, will be open to EU/MEmbers free of charge (conference materials 
not included). Details on how to request participation as a EU/MEmber will 
become available on http://www.emo09.org/ in the near future.

Naturally, tutorials are also open to all registered EMO'09 participants 
(they are included in the registration fee).

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** Important dates
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October 15, 2008 (extended, HARD deadline)
Submission deadline of the full papers (up to 15 pages, for reviewing)

November 15, 2008
Referee reports available - Notification of acceptance or rejection

December 15, 2008
Final camera-ready papers and
registration of one author at least per paper accepted

December 15, 2008
Deadline of early Registration

April 07-10, 2009
The EMO'09 conference

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** Registration
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. ACADEMIC Registration
(includes reception, conference proceedings, lunches, refreshments, banquet
and excursion)
early (until December 15, 2008) EUR 380,00
late (after December 15, 2008) EUR 500,00

. STUDENT Registration
(includes reception, conference proceedings, lunches, refreshments, banquet
and excursion)
early (until December 15, 2008) EUR 250,00
late (after December 15, 2008) EUR 350,00

. NON-ACADEMIC Registration
(includes reception, conference proceedings, lunches, refreshments, banquet
and excursion)
early (until December 15, 2008) EUR 500,00
late (after December 15, 2008) EUR 650,00

. OTHERS (Accompanying Person)
(includes banquet and excursion)
early (until December 15, 2008) EUR 100,00
late (after December 15, 2008) EUR 100,00

All registrations (until April 05, 2009) are made through the online
registration tool (available on the conference
website in September 2008).

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For further information please contact:

XAVIER GANDIBLEUX
LINA - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Nantes Atlantique
UMR CNRS 6241
University of Nantes
2, rue de la Houssiniere BP 92208
F-44322 Nantes Cedex 03 - FRANCE
E-mail: Xavier.Gandibleux [at] univ-nantes.fr
homepage: http://xgandibleux.free.fr/

CARLOS M. FONSECA
Department of Electronic Engineering and Informatics
Faculty of Science and Technology
Universidade do Algarve
Campus de Gambelas
8005-139 Faro - PORTUGAL

E-mail: cmfonsec [at] ualg.pt
homepage: http://w3.ualg.pt/~cmfonsec/

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