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CFP IC on VNS (submission system is open) deadline May 1, 2014

Forum 'Annonces' - Sujet créé le 2014-04-13 par jbassem

website: http://vns-metaheuristic.com/index.html
The 3rd International Conference dedicated to Variable Neighborhood Search (IC on VNS) will be held in Djerba (Tunisia) October 8-11,2014.
VNS is a metaheuristic based on systematic changes in the neighborhood structure within a search, for solving optimization problems and related tasks. The main goal of the IC on VNS is to provide a stimulating environment in which researchers coming from various scientific fields can share and discuss their knowledge, expertise and ideas related to the VNS Metaheuristic and its applications.
The aim of the 3rd IC on VNS is to allow specialists and practitioners on Variable Neighborhood Search to effectively screen papers and participate in lively debates.

Conference Chairs

Honorary Chair of the Conference:
Pierre Hansen, GERAD and HEC Montreal, Canada.
General chair:
Nenad Mladenovic, Valenciennes University, France and JUPIM, Serbia.
Conference chairs:
Bassem Jarboui, Sfax University, Tunisia.
Abdelwaheb Rebai, Sfax University, Tunisia.
Program Committee Chairs:
Saïd Hanafi, University of Valenciennes, France.
Abraham Duarte, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain.
Dragan Urosevic, Mathematical Institute SASA, Belgrade, Serbia.

Conference Themes
Theory and Methodology:
Theoretical or empirical analysis of VNS
New variants of deterministic and stochastic VNS
Continuous global VNS
Convergent VNS methods
Matheuristics and VNS
Formulation space VNS
Multi-objective VNS
Parallel VNS
VNS hybrids
Applications:
Mixed integer programming
Graphs, communication networks
Clustering, data mining, location
Inventory, routing, supply chains
Packing and covering
Discovery sciences
Other real world problems

Conference Proceedings and Book of Abstracts:
All papers accepted for presentation will be published in Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, before the conference starts.
All accepted papers will be published in Book of abstracts. Participants are allowed to send just abstract of their presentation.

Important dates
May 01, 2014 Paper and/or Abstract submission
July 01, 2014 Acceptance notice
August 19, 2014 Early registration ends
August 31, 2014 Submission of papers for the Proceedings ends
September 04, 2014 Preliminary program schedule notice
October 08, 2014 - October 11, 2014 Conference date

Organizers and Partners
Organizer
Modeling and Optimization for Decisional, Industrial and Logistic Systems Laboratory (MODILS Lab), Tunisia.
Partners
Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Sfax
Mathematical Institute SANU, Belgrade
Université de Valenciennes
GERAD, Group for Research in Decision Analysis
EU/ME (EURO metaheuristic group) EURO