HM 2014 9th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics June 9-13, 2014 Hamburg, Germany (http://iwi.econ.uni-hamburg.de/hm14/) Back to back with the 5th international Workshop on Model-Based Metaheuristics CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************ General Chair Stefan Voss (Universität Hamburg, Germany) Program chair Christian Blum (IKERBASQUE and Univ. of the Basque Country, Spain) ************************************************************************ Steering Committee Maria Blesa (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) Christian Blum (IKERBASQUE and Univ. of the Basque Country, Spain) Luca di Gaspero (University of Udine, Italy) Paola Festa (University of Napoli FEDERICO II, Italy) Günther Raidl (Technische Universität Wien, Austria) Michael Sampels (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) ************************************************************************ Important Dates Submissions Due: February 21, 2014 Notification: March 28, 2014 Final Papers Due: April 4, 2014 ************************************************************************ Aims & Scope The HM Workshops are intended to be an international forum for researchers in the area of design, analysis, and experimental evaluation of metaheuristics. Metaheuristics, such as simulated annealing, evolutionary algorithms, tabu search, ant colony optimization, scatter search and iterated local search, are considered state-of-the-art methods for many problems. In recent years, however, it has become evident that the concentration on a sole metaheuristic is rather restrictive. A skilled combination of concepts from different optimization techniques can provide a more efficient behavior and a higher flexibility when dealing with real-world and large-scale problems. Hybrid Metaheuristics are such techniques for optimization that combine different metaheuristics or integrate AI/OR techniques into metaheuristics. Previously organized Workshops were held in Ischia Island (HM 2013), Vienna (HM 2010), Udine (HM 2009), Malaga (HM 2008), Dortmund (HM 2007), Gran Canaria (HM 2006), Barcelona (HM 2005), and València (HM 2004). HM2014 is organized as a non-profit event. ************************************************************************ Topics of Interest Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: - Novel combinations of components from different metaheuristics - Hybridization of metaheuristics and AI/OR techniques - 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 Authors are invited to submit a full paper describing original, unpublished research with at most 15 pages (in LNCS style). Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be put into an appendix to be read by the program committee members at their discretion. Electronic submissions should be formatted in pdf. Simultaneous submission to other conferences or workshops with published proceedings is not allowed. The proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS series. ************************************************************************ Further and Contact information: Stefan Voss ([log in to unmask]) Institute of Information Systems Department for Business and Economics University of Hamburg Von-Melle-Park 5 Office VMP 5, Room 3064 D-20146 Hamburg Germany Tel.: +49 (0)40 42838-3064 Fax: +49 (0)40 42838-5535 Conference Website: http://iwi.econ.uni-hamburg.de/hm14/ ************************************************************************