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Workshop on Landscape-Aware Heuristic Search
http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/events/ppsn2016-landscape/
Held in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Parallel
Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2016)
Edinburgh, Scotland, 17-21 September 2016
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: 6 June, 2016
Acceptance notification: 20 June, 2016
Workshop date (TBC): 17 or 18 September, 2016
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
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Fitness landscape analysis and visualisation can provide significant
insights into problem instances and algorithm behaviour. The aim of the
workshop is to encourage and promote the use of landscape analysis to
improve search algorithms and their understanding. Examples include
landscape analysis as a tool to inform the design of algorithms,
landscape metrics for online adaptation of search strategies, mining
landscape information to predict instance hardness and algorithm
runtime. The workshop seeks to bring together researchers interested in
landscape analysis and in exploiting problem structure to develop
informed search strategies. The workshop provides a unique opportunity
to present existing work, propose new ideas or put forward position
statements.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- Evolvability and searchability characterisation
- Exploiting problem structure
- Exploratory landscape analysis
- Fitness landscape analysis
- Fitness landscape visualisation
- Fitness landscape theory
- Grey-box optimisation
- Informed search strategies
- Local optima networks
- Multi-objective fitness landscapes
- Performance and failure prediction
SUBMISSIONS
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- We invite submissions of extended abstracts of up to 3 pages,
including figures and references, in the Springer LNCS format.
- Please send the PDF of your submission by email to the organisers (below).
ORGANISERS
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Nadarajen Veerapen and Gabriela Ochoa
University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
Email: { nve,goc } @ cs.stir.ac.uk
http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~nve/
http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~goc/
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