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</span> OLA'2020</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">International Conference on Optimization and Learning: Challenges and Applications </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">x Best accepted long papers will be included in conference proceedings published by Springer in Communication in Computer and Information
Science (CCIS) series.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">x CCIS Proceedings are indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus, and also submitted for the inclusion
in ISI Proceedings.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">x The rest of accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings with ISBN/ISSN number</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Several Journal Special Issues are planned after OLA2020:</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> -> Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier) IF 4,873</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> -> Applied Sciences (MDPI) IF 2,217</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> -> Algorithms (MDPI) - best papers will be published free of charge</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">OLA is a conference focusing on the future challenges of optimization and learning methods and their applications. The conference OLA'2020
will provide an opportunity to the international research community in optimization and learning to discuss recent research results and to develop new ideas and collaborations in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">OLA'2020 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of optimization and learning research such as optimization for learning, learning
for optimization, optimization and learning under uncertainty, new high-impact applications, parameter tuning, 4th industrial revolution, hybridization issues, optimization-simulation, meta-modeling, high-performance computing, parallel and distributed optimization
and learning, surrogate modeling, multi-objective optimization ...</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Submissions: We will accept two different types of submissions:</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- S1: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- S2: Original research contributions of a maximum of 10 pages</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Extended submission deadline (firm)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Nov 9, 2019</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Proceedings: Accepted papers in categories S1 and S2 will be published in the proceedings that will be available at the conference. Best
accepted papers of type S2 will be included in conference proceedings published by Springer in Communication in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series. CCIS Proceedings are indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago,
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