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IAM 2016
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GECCO 2016 Workshop on Industrial
Applications of Metaheuristics
IAM is held as part of the 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference (GECCO-2016), July 20-24, Denver, CO, USA
Aims and Scope
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Metaheuristics have been applied successfully to many aspects of
applied mathematics and science, showing their capabilities to deal
effectively with problems that are complex and otherwise difficult to
solve. There are a number of factors that make the usage of
metaheuristics in industrial applications more and more
interesting. These factors include the flexibility of these
techniques, the increased availability of high-performing algorithmic
techniques, the increased knowledge of their particular strengths and
weaknesses, the ever increasing computing power, and the adoption of
computational methods in applications. In fact, metaheuristics have
become a powerful tool to solve a large number of real-life
optimization problems in different fields and, of course, also in many
industrial applications such as production scheduling, distribution
planning, and inventory management.
This workshop proposes to present and debate about the current
achievements of applying these techniques to solve real-world problems
in industry and the future challenges, focusing on the (always)
critical step from the laboratory to the shop floor. A special focus
will be given to the discussion of which elements can be transferred
from academic research to industrial applications and how industrial
applications may open new ideas and directions for academic research.
Topic areas include (but are not restricted to):
• Success stories for industrial applications of metaheuristics
• Pitfalls of industrial applications of metaheuristics
• Metaheuristics to optimize dynamic industrial problems
• Multi-objective optimization in real-world industrial problems
• Meta-heuristics in very constraint industrial optimization problems: assuring feasibility, constraint-handling techniques
• Reduction of computing times through parameter tuning and surrogate modelling
• Parallelism and/or distributed design to accelerate computations
• Algorithm selection and configuration for complex problem solving
• Advantages and disadvantages of metaheuristics when compared
to other techniques such as integer programming or constraint programming
• New research topics for academic research inspired by real (algorithmic) needs in industrial applications.
Submission
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Authors can submit regular research contributions of up to 8 pages and
short contributions including position papers of up to 4
pages. Submissions need to follow the GECCO paper formatting
guidelines that are accessible through
http://gecco-2016.sigevo.org/index.html/Papers; however, papers for
IAM'2016 should not be anonymised. Software demonstrations
will also be welcome. All accepted papers will appear in the GECCO
conference companion proceedings.
Please submit your paper at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iam16
Important Dates
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Submission deadline: April 3, 2016
Authors notification: April 20, 2106
Camera-ready submission: May 4, 2016
Workshop: July 20 or 21, 2016
Workshop Chairs
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Silvino Fernandez Alzueta, ArcelorMittal
Pablo Valledor Pellicer, ArcelorMittal
Thomas Stützle, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
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