** Apologies for cross-posting ** ** Please forward to anybody who might be interested. ** HM 2016 - 10th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics June 8-10, 2016 - Plymouth, United Kingdom http://www.dmi.unict.it/hm2016/ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hm2016 [log in to unmask] HM Workshops are intended to be an international forum for researchers in the area of design, analysis, and experimental evaluation of hybrid metaheuristics. http://www.dmi.unict.it/hm2016/ **** You are invited to submit papers to this exciting event! *** **** HM 2016 is organized as a NON-PROFIT event. **** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 18th January 2016 http://www.dmi.unict.it/hm2016/dates.html **** PROCEEDINGS in LNCS, Springer http://www.dmi.unict.it/hm2016/submission.html **** SPECIAL ISSUE in SOFT COMPUTING, Springer http://www.dmi.unict.it/hm2016/call.html **** PLENARY SPEAKERS ** ** Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV, Mexico “Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization using Hybrid Approaches” ** Jin-Kao Hao, University of Angers, France “Hybrid Methods for some Knapsack Problems: lessons learnt” ** Helena Ramalhinho Lourenço, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Title: TBA **** SUBMISSIONS HM 2016 includes two different types of submission: 1) *regular paper*: 15 pages maximum length in Springer LNCS format, including figures, table & references, and should report on new and unpublished work; 2) *abstract for oral/poster presentation* (no page restriction; any format): it should discuss work in progress; new research ideas; works previously published elsewhere (it is essential that a reference to the previous article is clearly cited); and all that may be relevant and fruitful for soliciting discussions at the workshop. **** SPECIAL SESSIONS ** ** “Hybrid Metaheuristics for Bioinformatics” organizers: Laetitia Jourdan and Julia Handl ** “Hybrid Metaheuristics for Dynamic Environments” organizers: Amir Nakib, Antonio D. Masegosa and Mario Pavone ** “Engineering Applications of Hybrid Metaheuristics” organizer: Alessandro Di Nuovo, Graziella Figueredo more special sessions will be announced! http://www.dmi.unict.it/hm2016/special-sessions.html **** PC Members http://www.dmi.unict.it/hm2016/committee.html **** Organizing Team - General Chairs: Angelo Cangelosi & Vincenzo Cutello - Program Chairs: Christian Blum, Mario Pavone & El-Ghazali Talbi - Publication Chair: Maria J. Blesa - Local Chair: Alessandro Di Nuovo - Publicity Chair: Antonio D. Masegosa ----- http://www.dmi.unict.it/hm2016/ [log in to unmask] Looking forward to welcoming you to Plymouth in June 2016. The HM 2016 organizing team!