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                          Call for Papers

                  HYBRID METAHEURISTICS - HM 2010
                    7th International Workshop
                         Vienna, Austria
                        October 1-2, 2010

             Extended submission deadline: May 24, 2010

                 http://www.ads.tuwien.ac.at/HM2010

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Metaheuristics have received considerable interest in the fields of
applied artificial intelligence and optimization. Many hard
problems in a huge variety of areas, including bioinformatics,
logistics, engineering, business, etc., have been tackled
successfully with metaheuristic approaches. For many problems the
resulting algorithms are considered to be the state-of-the-art
methods.

In recent years it has become evident that a skilled combination of
metaheuristics with other techniques for optimization or among
themselves, a so-called hybrid metaheuristic, can provide a more
efficient behavior and a higher flexibility especially when dealing
with real-world and large-scale problems.


SCOPE AND TOPICS OF INTEREST

The HM 2010 workshop aims at papers describing good examples of
carefully designed and well-analyzed hybrid metaheuristics.

Topics of interest include, but is not limited to:

- novel combinations of components from different metaheuristics,
- hybridization of metaheuristics and AI/OR techniques,
- matheuristics,
- low-level hybridization,
- high-level hybridization, portfolio techniques, expert systems,
- cooperative search,
- automated parameter tuning,
- empirical and statistical comparison,
- theoretical aspects of hybridization,
- parallelization,
- software libraries.


PAPER SUBMISSION

Researchers are invited to submit papers of not more than 15 pages.
Authors are strongly encouraged to typeset their papers with LaTeX
and to submit them in PDF format (see Information for LNCS Authors
at www.springeronline.com).

Further information on the submission procedure is available on
the workshop website http://www.ads.tuwien.ac.at/HM2010

Every paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the program
committee. Researchers are explicitly encouraged to address
statistical validity of their results, if they compare different
approaches. Source code and problem instances, if relevant, should
be made available on the internet.

The submitted papers must be original works. Simultaneous submission
to other conferences with published proceedings is not permitted.


PROCEEDINGS

As in the previous editions of the workshop, accepted papers will be
published as a volume of the LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE series
of Springer.


IMPORTANT DATES

Extended and final submission deadline: May 24, 2010
Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2010
Camera-ready papers: July 2, 2010
Workshop: October 1-2, 2010


FURTHER REMARKS

HM 2010 shall be a non-profit workshop. The workshop fee will be kept
as low as possible.


GENERAL CHAIR

Guenther Raidl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria


PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Maria J. Blesa, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Christian Blum, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Andrea Roli, Universita di Bologna, Italy
Michael Sampels, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Mauro Birattari (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Juergen Branke (Warwick Business School, United Kingdom)
Marco Chiarandini (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
Carlos Cotta (University of Málaga, Spain)
Luca Di Gaspero (Università di Udine, Italia)
Karl Doerner (Universität Wien, Austria)
Andreas Ernst (CSIRO, Australia)
Antonio J. Fernández (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)
Paola Festa (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
José Gallardo (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)
Said Hanafi (University of Valenciennes, France)
Thomas Jansen (University College Cork, Ireland)
Joshua Knowles (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
Andrea Lodi (Università di Bologna, Italy)
Manuel López-Ibáñez (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Rafael Martì (Universitat de Valencia, Spain)
Daniel Merkle (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
Bernd Meyer (Monash University, Australia)
Martin Middendorf (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
José A. Moreno (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain)
José Marcos Moreno-Vega (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain)
Nysret Musliu (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Boris Naujoks (Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany)
David Pelta (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
Petrica Pop (Universitatea de Nord, Rumania)
Steve Prestwich (4C, Cork, Ireland)
Christian Prins (TU Troyes, France)
Caroline Prodhon (TU Troyes, France)
Guenter Rudolph (Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany)
Andrea Schaerf (Università di Udine, Italia)
Thomas Stuetzle (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Greet Vanden Berghe (KaHo Sint Lieven, Belgium)


LOCAL ORGANIZATION

Algorithms and Data Structures Group
Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms
Vienna University of Technology


CONTACT INFORMATION

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