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        9th Metaheuristics International Conference

                        MIC 2011

             25-28 July, 2011 in Udine, Italy



Extended submission deadline: March 28, 2011 (strict) 

More details and up-to-date information at

	       http://mic2011.diegm.uniud.it





MIC is the main event focusing on the progress of the area of metaheuristics and their applications. As in previous editions, MIC 2011 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in metaheuristics to discuss recent research results, to develop new ideas and collaborations, and to meet old friends and make new ones in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.

MIC 2011 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of metaheuristic research such as new algorithmic developments, high-impact applications, new research challenges, theoretical developments, implementation issues, and in-depth experimental studies. MIC 2011 strives for a high-quality program that will be completed by a number of invited talks and special sessions.


Important Dates
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Submission deadline             March 28, 2011
Notification of acceptance      May 13, 2011
Camera ready copy               May 27, 2011
Early registration              June 6, 2011
Conference                      July 25-28, 2011


Submission Details
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We will accept submissions in three different formats. 

S1) Original research contributions for publication in the conference proceedings of a maximum of 10 pages 

S2) Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers on an important research aspect of a maximum of 3 pages

S3) High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last six months, been submitted or accepted for journal publication


Accepted contributions of categories S1 and S2 will be published in the MIC 2011 conference proceedings. The proceedings will be assigned the ISBN 978-88-900984-3-7. Accepted contributions of category S3 will be orally presented at the conference, but not be included into the conference proceedings (neither in the post-conference proceedings). 

The submission server is available at http://www.conftool.net/mic2011 


Best Paper Award
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A best paper award will be presented at the conference. Only papers
submitted in category S1 will be eligible for the best paper award.  


Special Sessions
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The conference will integrate a number of special sessions. 

- Dynamic Optimization, organized by Amir Nakib and Patrick Siarry
- Hybrid Tree Search and Metaheuristic Algorithms, organized by Zeynep Kiziltan, Andrea Lodi, Michela Milano, Fabio Parisini
- Matheuristics, organized by Karl Doerner, Vittorio Maniezzo, Celso Ribeiro, and Stefan Voss
- Metaheuristics in Employee Scheduling, organized by Dario Landa-Silva and Nysret Musliu
- Metaheuristics for Novel and Emerging Vehicle Routing Problems, organized by Jorge E. Mendoza, Christian Prins, Marc Sevaux
- Metaheuristics for Real Production Planning and Scheduling, organized by Ruben Ruiz
- Metaheuristics in Health Care Management and Services, organized by Ana Viana and Abdur Rais
- Methodologies for Heuristic Multi-Objective Optimization, organized by Walter Gutjahr and Frank Neumann
- Metaheuristics for Quadratic Binary Programs, organized by Fred Glover, Jin-Kao Hao, and Gary Kochenberger

The submission to the special sessions will be through the same submission site as for the main conference. For submission details and paper categories, we refer to the main submission information. 


Post-conference Publication
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It has become a tradition of MIC conferences to publish post-conference proceedings in an edited book. Authors of accepted papers in categories S1 and S2 (see submission details) are invited to submit improved and extended versions of their conference papers for publication in the MIC 2011 post-conference volume. The post-conference volume will appear in the Operations Research / Computer Science Interfaces series of Springer Verlag. 



Invited Talks
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There will be three invited talks at MIC 2011. The invited speakers are
 
- Holger H. Hoos, http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos, University of British Columbia, Canada
  Programming by Optimisation: Towards a new Paradigm for Developing High-Performance Software

- Andrea Lodi, http://www.or.deis.unibo.it/lodi.html, Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
  The heuristic (dark) side of MIP solvers

- Pascal Van Hentenryck, http://www.cs.brown.edu/~pvh, Brown University, USA
  Meta-Heuristics for Last-Mile Disaster Preparedness and Recovery



Further Information
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Up-to-date information is available on the web site
http://mic2011.diegm.uniud.it. For information about committees, local
arrangements, registration forms, etc., please refer to this web site.