HYBRID METAHEURISTICS - HM 2009

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Call for Papers

                  HYBRID METAHEURISTICS - HM 2009

                  Sixth International Workshop

                        Udine, Italy

                      October 16-17, 2009

                http://www.diegm.uniud.it/hm2009

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Metaheuristics have received considerable interest in the fields of

applied artificial intelligence and optimization. Many hard

problems in a huge variety of areas, including bioinformatics,

logistics, engineering, business, etc., have been tackled

successfully with metaheuristic approaches. For many problems the

resulting algorithms are considered to be the state-of-the-art

methods.

In recent years it has become evident that a skilled combination of

metaheuristics with other techniques for optimization or among

themselves, a so-called hybrid metaheuristic, can provide a more

efficient behavior and a higher flexibility especially when dealing

with real-world and large-scale problems.

SCOPE AND TOPICS OF INTEREST

The HM 2009 workshop aims at papers describing good examples of

carefully designed and well-analyzed hybrid metaheuristics.

Topics of interest include, but is not limited to:

- novel combinations of components from different metaheuristics,

- hybridization of metaheuristics and AI/OR techniques,

- low-level hybridization,

- high-level hybridization, portfolio techniques, expert systems,

- cooperative search,

- automated parameter tuning,

- empirical and statistical comparison,

- theoretical aspects of hybridization,

- parallelization,

- software libraries.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Researchers are invited to submit papers of not more than 15 pages.

Authors are strongly encouraged to typeset their papers with LaTeX

and to submit them in PDF format (see Information for LNCS Authors

at www.springeronline.com).

Further information on the submission procedure are available on

the workshop website.

Every paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the program

committee. Researchers are explicitly encouraged to address

statistical validity of their results, if they compare different

approaches. Source code and problem instances, if relevant, should

be made available on the Internet.

The submitted papers must be original works. Simultaneous submission

to other conferences with published proceedings is not permitted.

PROCEEDINGS

As in the previous editions of the workshop, accepted papers will be

published as a volume of the LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE series

of Springer.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of papers: May 24, 2009

Notification of acceptance: July 2, 2009

Camera-ready papers: July 12, 2009

Workshop: October 16-17, 2009

FURTHER REMARKS

HM 2009 shall be a non-profit workshop. The workshop fee will be kept

as low as possible.

GENERAL CHAIRS

Luca Di Gaspero, Universita' di Udine, Italy

Andrea Schaerf, Universita' di Udine, Italy

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Maria J. Blesa, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Christian Blum, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Andrea Roli, Universita' di Bologna, Italy

Michael Sampels, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Mauro Birattari        (Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, BE)

Juergen Branke        (AIFB, Univ. Karlsruhe, DE)

Marco Chiarandini    (University of Southern Denmark, DK)

Carlo Cotta        (University of Malaga, ES)

Karl Doerner        (Universitaet Wien, AT)

Andreas Ernst        (CSIRO, AU)

Antonio J. Fernandez    (Universidad de Malaga, ES)

Paola Festa        (Universita' di Napoli Federico II, IT)

Jose' Gallardo        (Universidad de Malaga, ES)

Thomas Jansen         (University College Cork, IE)

Joshua Knowles         (University of Manchester, UK)

Andrea Lodi         (Universita' di Bologna, IT)

Manuel Lopez-Ibanez    (Napier University, UK)

Rafael Marti'        (Universitat de Valencia, ES)

Daniel Merkle         (University of Southern Denmark, DK)

Bernd Meyer         (Monash University, AU)

Martin Middendorf     (Universitaet Leipzig, DE)

Jose A. Moreno         (Universidad de La Laguna, ES)

J. Marcos Moreno     (Universidad de La Laguna, ES)

Nysret Musliu        (Technische Universitaet Wien, AT)

Boris Naujoks         (Technische Universitaet Dortmund, DE)

David Pelta         (Universidad de Granada, ES)

Steven Prestwich     (4C, Cork, IE)

Christian Prins     (TU Troyes, FR)

Caroline Prodhon    (TU Troyes, FR)

Guenther Raidl         (Technische Universitaet Wien, AT)

Guenter Rudolph     (Technische Universitaet Dortmund, DE)

Marc Sevaux         (University of South-Brittany, FR)

Thomas Stuetzle     (Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, BE)

Greet Vanden Berghe    (KaHoSl, BE)

LOCAL ORGANIZATION

Sara Ceschia

Luca Di Gaspero

Grazia Matera

Andrea Schaerf

Universita' di Udine

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Gestionale e Meccanica

CONTACT INFORMATION

Email: hm2009@uniud.it

Web: http://www.diegm.uniud.it/hm2009

Fax: +39 0432 55 8251

Regular mail: HM2009 Organization

Luca Di Gaspero / Andrea Schaerf

DIEGM, Universita' di Udine

via delle Scienze 208

33100 Udine, ITALY