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META'2020<br class="">
International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing<br class="">
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27-31 Oct 2020<br class="">
Marrakech, Morocco<br class="">
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<a href="http://meta2020.sciencesconf.org/" class="">http://meta2020.sciencesconf.org/</a><br class="">
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META is one of the main event focusing on the progress of the area of <br class="">
metaheuristics and their applications. As in previous editions, <br class="">
META’2020 will provide an opportunity to the international research <br class="">
community in metaheuristics to discuss recent research results, to <br class="">
develop new ideas and collaborations, and to meet old friends and make <br class="">
new ones in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.<br class="">
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All selected long papers will be published in the Springer (SCOPUS, ISI, <br class="">
DBLP) conference proceedings.<br class="">
At least, 2 special special issues in ISI and SCOPUS journals are also <br class="">
confirmed.<br class="">
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META'2020 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of metaheuristic <br class="">
research such as new algorithmic developments, high-impact applications, <br class="">
new research challenges, theoretical developments, implementation <br class="">
issues, and in-depth experimental studies. META'2020 strives for a <br class="">
high-quality program that will be completed by a number of invited <br class="">
talks, tutorials, workshops and special sessions.<br class="">
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The scope of the META’2020 conference includes, but is not limited to:<br class="">
* Local search, tabu search, simulated annealing, VNS, ILS, …<br class="">
* Evolutionary algorithms, swarm optimization, bio-inspired <br class="">
algorithms, …<br class="">
* Emergent nature inspired algorithms: quantum computing, <br class="">
artificial immune systems, bee colony, DNA computing, …<br class="">
* Quantum computing<br class="">
* Parallel and distributed algorithms<br class="">
* Hybrid methods with machine learning, game theory, mathematical <br class="">
programming, constraint programming, co-evolutionary, …<br class="">
* Application to: logistics and transportation, networks, <br class="">
scheduling, data mining, engineering design, energy, cloud, bio-medical, …<br class="">
* Theory of metaheuristics, landscape analysis, convergence, <br class="">
problem difficulty, very large neighbourhoods, …<br class="">
* Multi-objective optimization, bi-level optimization<br class="">
* Dynamic optimization, problems with uncertainty, …<br class="">
* Parameter tuning (static, dynamic, adaptive, self-adaptive)<br class="">
* Hyper-heuristics, cross-domain metaheuristics<br class="">
* Software frameworks for metaheuristics and nature inspired computing<br class="">
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Submission of papers:<br class="">
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- Submission of papers via the website<br class="">
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S1) Short papers: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and <br class="">
position papers of a maximum of 3 pages.<br class="">
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S2) Long papers: Original research contributions of a maximum of 10 <br class="">
pages.<br class="">
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S3) Journal papers: High-quality manuscripts that have recently, <br class="">
within the last year, been submitted or accepted for journal <br class="">
publication. For this special case, the submission should have the same <br class="">
title that the accepted work, the abstract AND the complete reference of <br class="">
the work.<br class="">
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- Proceedings of the conference will be provided. Selected papers of <br class="">
type S2 will be published in a Springer book (SCOPUS, ISI, DBLP).<br class="">
- Predefined styles are available on the website <br class="">
<a href="http://meta2020.sciencesconf.org/" class="">http://meta2020.sciencesconf.org/</a><br class="">
- Proposals for invited sessions, workshops and tutorials: Deadline 30th <br class="">
March 2020, contact <a href="mailto:meta2020@sciencesconf.org" class="">meta2020@sciencesconf.org</a><br class="">
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Important dates<br class="">
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- Submission deadline: April 24, 2020<br class="">
- Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2020
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