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***** Apologies for the multiple-postings of this Announcement ***** *** Special Session: Intelligent Multiobjective OptimzatioN (IMON) *** At the LION 5 Conference, Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Jan 17-21, 2011, Rome, Italy Multiobjective optimization arises in many real-world applications in areas such as engineering, business, computer science, biological sciences, scientific computation, etc. Very often, the objectives conflict with each other. There is no single solution which can optimize all the objectives simultaneously. In recent years considerable progress has been achieved in the field of multiobjective optimization including: development of specialised algorithms, design of assessment metrics, development of benchmark problems, development of frameworks and libraries, performance and analysis of algorithms, applications to a variety of real-world problems, interaction with multicriteria decision making techniques, tackling uncertainty, noise and many objectives, etc. Within the context of the LION conference, the purpose of the IMON session is to provide a forum for contributions in the field of multiobjective optimization that incorporate some kind of learning and/or intelligent components. For example, learning the process to establish preferences among objectives, intelligent niching and diversity methods, intelligent multiobjective operators, etc. We seek papers addressing any of (but not limited to) the aspects listed above and that also incorporate "intelligent" mechanisms to better conduct multiobjective optimization. Papers on all topics related to the session themes are solicited. Prospective authors can submit papers via the online submission system of LION 2011. Authors are advised to be careful when selecting a paper category. The paper categories for LION-IMON are (1) LION-IMON: Regular Paper, (2) LION-IMON: Short paper, and (3) LION-IMON: Work for oral presentation only. In addition, please send an e-mail message including title of paper, author's names and affiliation, and abstract to the session chair: Dr Dario Landa-Silva, [log in to unmask] All accepted novel and unpublished papers will be published in the post-conference proceedings of LION 5. Organizers: Dr. Dario Landa-Silva, University of Nottingham, UK Prof Qingfu Zhang University of Essex, UK Prof. David Wolfe Corne Heriot-Watt University, UK Dr. Hui Li, University of Nottingham, UK This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.