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[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] ================================================ Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference LION 9 , Lille, FRANCE, Jan. 12-15, 2015. http://www.lifl.fr/LION9/ ***DEADLINE: December 12th 2014*** ================================================ LION 9 conference will take place in Lille (France) from January 12 to 15, 2015. Lille is the biggest city in the north of France at the crossroads of Europe (with direct TGV to/from London (1h20), Paris CDG Airport (50mn), Brussels (32 mn)). ==Call for presentations== We would like to favor discussions on high quality works recently accepted for journal publication or high ranking conference publication (within the last 6 months). Therefore, we offer to present such works to the community during LION9 conference. Interested people can send an email with an abstract of the work and its complete reference to [log in to unmask] ==Invited speakers== - David Corne (Heriot-Watt University, UK), - Alex Freitas (University of Kent, UK), - Daniel Le Berre (Université de Lens, France) - Rémi Munos (INRIA, France). ==Tutorials== - Manuel López-Ibáńez and Thomas Stützle (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) - Sébastien Verel (Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, France). ==Contacts== [log in to unmask] ==Committees== General Chairs: - Clarisse Dhaenens, University of Lille 1, France - Laetitia Jourdan, University of Lille 1, France - Marie-Eléonore Marmion, University of Lille 1, France Steering Committee: - Roberto Battiti (head), University of Trento, Italy - Holger Hoos, University of British Columbia, Canada - Youssef Hamadi, Microsoft Research Center, UK - Mauro Brunato, University of Trento, Italy - Thomas Stuetzle, Free University of Brussels, Belgium - Christian Blum, University of the Basque Country, Spain - Martin Charles Golumbic, University of Haifa, Israel - Marc Schoenauer, INRIA, France - Xin Yao, University of Birmingham , UK - Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois, USA