International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing

> The 4th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, META’12, will held in Port El Kantaoui, Sousse, Tunisia from 27 to 31 Oct 2012. > > > > The Conference will be an exchange space thanks to the sessions of the research works presentations and also will integrate tutorials, workshops and a vocational training of metaheuristics and nature inspired computing. > > > > The scope of the META’2012 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 and hybrid methods with metaheuristics, machine learning, game theory, mathematical programming, constraint programming, co-evolutionary, … > * Application to: logistics and transportation, telecommunications, scheduling, data mining, engineering design, bioinformatics, … > * Theory of metaheuristics, landscape analysis, convergence, problem difficulty, very large neighbourhoods, … > * Application to multi-objective optimization, bi-level optimization > * Application in dynamic optimization, problems with uncertainty, … > > > Submission papers: > _________________ > > - Submission of papers should be in shape of an abstract of two pages sent before the 5th May 2012 via the website. > > - Selected papers will be published in international journals (ISI journals). > - Predefined styles are available on the website http://www.lifl.fr/META2012 that we invite you to visit regularly and which evolves when the organization progresses. > > Invited sessions, workshops and tutorials: Deadline 5th May 2012. contact talbi@lifl.fr