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Call for Abstracts/Participation
for the METAHEURISTICS stream of the
58th Conference of the UK Operational Research Society (OR58)
http://www.theorsociety.com/OR58/
University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth
September 6-8, 2016
http://www.theorsociety.com/Pages/Conferences/OR58/streams/metaheuristics.as
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Submission Deadline: 13 June 2016
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This stream welcomes abstracts and presentations on metaheuristics, from
theory to practice, and including all flavours of approaches, such as, tabu
search, simulated annealing, evolutionary algorithms, ant colony
optimization, particle swarm optimization, or iterated local search.
We particularly welcome papers that provide generalisable scientific
insights, and papers that demonstrate some of the strengths of
metaheuristics, such as, multi-objective optimisation, open-ended
optimisation or optimisation under uncertainty, as well as papers on
hyper-heuristics or the combination of metaheuristics with exact methods.
The stream will provide an opportunity for the constructive exchange of
ideas and will include a keynote presentation by Dr Jonathan Fieldsend from
the University of Exeter.
We will also organise a meeting to discuss the state of metaheuristic
research in the UK.
If you would like to give a talk in this stream, please submit a title and
abstract of no more than 300 words via
http://www.theorsociety.com/Pages/Conferences/OR58/OR58Abstract.aspx
by selecting 'Metaheuristics' as the stream.
(For those who are not familiar with the OR conferences, the usual procedure
is to submit a title and an abstract, and then if accepted, to give a talk
of 20-25 minutes. A full paper or extended abstract is not required.)
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Best wishes,
Stream Organisers
Juergen Branke, Ender Özcan and Andrew Parkes
Juergen.Branke ATT wbs.ac.uk, {Ender.Ozcan, Andrew.Parkes} ATT
nottingham.ac.uk
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