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MISTA 2011: Call for Papers (Special Session on Systems to Build Systems)

(Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications)

URL: http://www.mistaconference.org/

Dates: 9^th – 12^th August 2011

Location: Arizona, USA

We are pleased to announce a special session at MISTA 2011 and welcome contributions in the form of a full paper, or an abstract:

Systems to Build Systems

Sophisticated bespoke systems which are designed by human experts frequently provide successful results in solving specific computationally difficult problems. The expert involvement might still be (in general is) required for the application of such problem tailored systems to unseen problem instances or new/other problem domains. This situation arises due to the substantial range of system design choices such as the values for the system parameters. It is an extremely challenging task for researchers, as well as practitioners, to develop effective decision support systems or search methodologies which are capable of automatically building (selecting/generating/tuning) systems. This special session focuses on hyper-heuristics in scheduling. Topics include but are not limited to:

• heuristic generation methodologies (e.g. genetic programming, grammatical evolution, and others) for scheduling
• adaptive/(heuristic/parameter) selection/self-tuning methodologies (e.g. evolutionary algorithms, multi-meme algorithms, adaptive operator selection, dynamic algorithm portfolios, reactive search, experimental design methods and others) for scheduling
• comparison of hyper-heuristics for scheduling
• multi-objective hyper-heuristics for scheduling
• theoretical or empirical analysis of hyper-heuristics in scheduling
• hyper-heuristic design issues in scheduling

This special session is chaired by Ender Ozcan ([log in to unmask]) and Edmund Burke and is being held in conjunction with the LANCS Initiative (see http://www.lancs-initiative.ac.uk/).

Please visit http://www.mistaconference.org/2011/sessions/index.html for more details of this special session, the other special sessions being planned and how to submit a paper (or abstract) to this session.