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META'2018
International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing
27-31 Oct 2018
Marrakech, Morocco
http://meta2018.sciencesconf.org/
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META is one of the main event focusing on the progress of the area of
metaheuristics and their applications. As in previous editions, META’2018 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.
All selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Following
the tradition, selected long papers will be published in a postponed Springer
book as in META'2014 and META'2016.
At least, 2 special special issues in ISI and SCOPUS journals are also
confirmed:
- Special issue in "Optimization and learning" in Wiley Journal ITOR -
International Journal on Operational Research (deadline for submission: 31 May
2018)
- Special issue in "Metaheuristics for 4.0 industry" in Elsevier Journal
Swarm-and-Evolutionary-Computation (deadline for submission: 31 May 2018)
META'2018 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. META'2018 strives for a high-quality program
that will be completed by a number of invited talks, tutorials, workshops and
special sessions.
The scope of the META’2018 conference includes, but is not limited to:
* Local search, tabu search, simulated annealing, VNS, ILS, …
* Evolutionary algorithms, swarm optimization, scatter search, …
* Emergent nature inspired algorithms: quantum computing, artificial immune
systems, bee colony, DNA computing, …
* Parallel algorithms
* Hybrid methods with machine learning, game theory, mathematical
programming, constraint programming, co-evolutionary, …
* Application to: logistics and transportation, networks, scheduling, data
mining, engineering design, energy, cloud, bio-medical, …
* Theory of metaheuristics, landscape analysis, convergence, problem
difficulty, very large neighbourhoods, …
* Multi-objective optimization, bi-level optimization
* Dynamic optimization, problems with uncertainty, …
* Parameter tuning (static, dynamic, adaptive, self-adaptive)
* Hyper-heuristics, cross-domain metaheuristics
* Software frameworks for metaheuristics and nature inspired computing
Submission of papers:
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- Submission of papers via the website
S1) Short papers: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position
papers of a maximum of 3 pages.
S2) Long papers: Original research contributions of a maximum of 10 pages.
S3) Journal papers: High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the
last year, been submitted or accepted for journal publication. For this special
case, the submission should have the same title that the accepted work, the
abstract AND the complete reference of the work.
- Proceedings of the conference will be provided. Selected papers of type S1
and S2 will be published in a Springer book and international journals (ISI
journals).
- Predefined styles are available on the website
http://meta2018.sciencesconf.org/
- Proposals for invited sessions, workshops and tutorials: Deadline 15th March
2018. contact meta2...@sciencesconf.org<mailto:meta2...@sciencesconf.org>
Important dates
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- Submission deadline: April 13, 2018
- Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2018
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