Doctoral Symposium on Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms
SLS-DS 2011
15-17 September, 2011. Brussels, Belgium
More details and up-to-date information at
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/sls2011/doctoral_symposium
The Symposium
======================
The Doctoral Symposium on Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms
(SLS-DS) is part of the Workshop on Engineering Stochastic Local Search
Algorithms, which this year will take place in Brussels, Belgium on
15-17 September, 2011. The main goal of the Doctoral Symposium is to serve
as a forum in which researchers working towards a doctoral degree can:
-- present their research and obtain constructive feedback from both
senior and junior researchers
-- review the work of peers in the same or similar field of their
expertise
-- expand their professional contact network by meeting active
researchers in the field
-- discuss career options with senior researchers
-- experience an international research event
The number of participants to the doctoral symposium will be limited.
The organizers' decision on the acceptance of a submitted work for
presentation at the symposium will be based on an extended abstract
describing the author's research. All submissions will be reviewed for
relevance, quality and clarity of presentation.
Relevant Research Areas
========================
All areas relevant to the main workshop. Typical, but not
exclusive, topics of interest are:
+ Methodological developments for the implementation of SLS
algorithms (engineering procedures, integration of tools in the
SLS engineering process, ...)
+ In-depth experimental studies of SLS algorithms (behavior of SLS
algorithms, comparison of SLS algorithms, ...), problem
characteristics (search space analysis, ...) and their
impact on algorithm performance.
+ Tools for the assistance in the development process of SLS
algorithms (software libraries, automatic and semi-automatic
tuning procedures, learning techniques, ...).
+ Case studies in the principled development of well designed
SLS algorithms for practically relevant problems.
+ Aspects that become relevant when moving from "classical"
NP-hard problems to those including multiple objectives,
stochastic information or dynamically changing data.
+ New algorithmic developments (usage of AI/OR techniques, large
scale neighbourhood searches, new SLS methods, data structures,
distributed algorithms, ...)
+ Theoretical analysis of SLS behaviour and their impact
on algorithm design (analysis of operators, dynamic behaviour
of SLS algorithms, ...)
Presentation Format
====================
Submissions to the doctoral symposium will be presented in a poster session at
the SLS Workshop. That session will be preceded by poster spotlights, in which
participants present their work in a short single-slide presentation.
Proceedings
====================
Accepted extended abstracts will appear in the doctoral symposium's proceedings
which will be distributed to all participants of SLS 2011. The proceedings will
be made available to the community at large by publishing them as an IRIDIA
Technical Report online (ISSN 1781-3794).
Submission
====================
Submissions of 5-page extended abstracts are invited from doctoral
students conducting research on all aspects of engineering stochastic
local search algorithms.
Submitted abstracts must be written in English, typeset in LaTeX2e, and
formatted in the Doctoral Symposium formatting style. Please download
the formatting style package for LaTeX2e. Authors are expected to use
the default font and font size of the formatting style and submit their
abstract in PDF format. Contributions that do not respect these
guidelines will be rejected.
By submitting an extended abstract, the author(s) agree that, if their
abstract is accepted, they will:
1. Submit a final, revised, camera-ready version by the deadline for
camera-ready extended abstracts.
2. Register at least one author for the Doctoral Symposium or SLS
Workshop.
3. Attend the Doctoral Symposium (at least one author) to present
their accepted abstract as a single-slide oral presentation and as a
poster.
Review Process
====================
Since one of the goals of the doctoral symposium is to give feedback to
the doctoral students that submit their work, each submission will
receive at least two reviews that will be done by
* a member of the program committee,
* an author of an accepted paper to the main workshop, or
* a fellow student who also submitted a work to the symposium.
By involving authors of submitted works to the SLS workshop and/or the
SLS doctoral symposium, we hope to give doctoral students feedback from
active researchers in the field.
Important Dates
====================
June 10 to June 20, 2011 Submission period for extended abstract
July 20, 2011 Author notification
August 29, 2011 Camera-ready submission deadline
Program Chairs
====================
Manuel López-Ibáñez, IRIDIA, Univeristé Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Paola Pellegrini, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/sls2011/doctoral_symposium
|