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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> META'2021</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> 27-30 Oct 2021</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> Marrakech, Morocco</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">META is one of the main event focusing on the progress of the area of metaheuristics and their applications. As in previous editions, META’2021 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.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">All selected long papers will be published in the Springer (SCOPUS, ISI, DBLP) conference proceedings.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">At least, 2 special special issues in ISI and SCOPUS journals are also confirmed.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">META'2021 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'2021 strives for a high-quality program that will be completed by a number of invited talks, tutorials, workshops and special sessions.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">The scope of the META conference includes, but is not limited to:</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> * Local search, tabu search, simulated annealing, VNS, ILS, …</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> * Evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, bio-inspired algorithms, …</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> * Emergent nature inspired algorithms: quantum computing, artificial immune systems, bee colony, DNA computing, …</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> * Quantum computing</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> * Parallel and distributed algorithms</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> * Decomposition methods</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> * Hybrid methods with machine learning, game theory, mathematical programming, constraint programming, co-evolutionary, …</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> * Application to: logistics and transportation, networks, scheduling, data mining, engineering design, energy, cloud, bio-medical, …</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> * Theory of metaheuristics, landscape analysis, convergence, problem difficulty, very large neighbourhoods, …</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> * Multi-objective optimization, bi-level optimization</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> * Dynamic optimization, problems with uncertainty, stochastic optimization, …</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> * Parameter tuning (static, dynamic, adaptive, self-adaptive)</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> * Hyper-heuristics, cross-domain metaheuristics</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> * Software frameworks for metaheuristics and nature inspired computing</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Submission of papers:</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">- Submission of papers via the website</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> S1) Short papers: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> S2) Long papers: Original research contributions of a maximum of 10 pages.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> 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.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">- Proceedings of the conference will be provided. Selected papers of type S2 will be published in a Springer book (SCOPUS, ISI, DBLP).</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">- Predefined styles are available on the website </span><a href="http://meta2021.sciencesconf.org/" style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">http://meta2021.sciencesconf.org/</a><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">- Proposals for invited sessions, workshops and tutorials: Deadline April 9, 2021, contact </span><a href="mailto:meta2021@sciencesconf.org" style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">meta2021@sciencesconf.org</a><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Important dates</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">- Submission deadline: April 30, 2021</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">- Notification of acceptance: June 11, 2021</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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