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CFP: WS on metaheuristic and constraint programmin

Forum 'Annonces' - Sujet créé le 2005-10-24

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== 2nd ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
== MLS+CP
== Free of charge workshop on Combination of metaheuristic
== and local search with Constraint Programming techniques
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== November 28-29, 2005
== Amphi F, Faculty of Sciences and Technology
== University of Nantes, Nantes - France
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== http://webhost.ua.ac.be/eume/workshops/mlscp
== http://ppcro.free.fr/mlscp.html
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LAST IMPORTANT NEWS :
* Final details about the four tutorial sessions
* Publication procedure in "Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms"
* The deadline for the registration
* Possible financial supports for two young researchers
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OBJECTIVE

Constraint programming and metaheuristics share the same objective at offering effective tools to aid decision makers in solving real-life
problems. Several attempts have been done to combine the two paradigms in order to provide new efficient tools. This workshop aims to further stimulate cross-paradigms work on this field of research. Researches and practitioners will be given the opportunity to discuss recent advances in diverse topics such as:

- Metaheuristics and CP for continuous/discrete linear/nonlinear single/multiple objective optimization problems
- CP embedded in metaheuristics
- Metaheuristics embedded in CP
- Space reduction/decomposition with CP or metaheuristic techniques for optimization problems
- Hybrid methods between CP and Local Search based metaheuristics (simulated annealing, tabu search, etc.)
- Hybrid methods between CP and Evolutionary metaheuristics (genetic algorithms, memetic algorithms, etc.)
- Hybrid methods between CP and Constructive metaheuristics (ant colony optimization, GRASP, etc.)
- Hybrid methods between CP and other aspects of metaheuristics (path relinking, neural networks)
- New Local Search strategies in CP
- CP and preference-based methods
- Hybrid approaches dedicated to problems characterized by their combinatorial structures (knapsack, covering, partitioning, etc.)
- Applications (transportation, networks, scheduling, engineering, timetabling, business, bioinformatics, datamining, etc.)
- Success stories
- Software aspects (software class libraries, algorithms and data structures, reusable software, parallel computing).

This EU/ME workshop is collocated with the CP and OR French working group and will bring researchers and practitioners from both communities. The overall aim of the workshop is to serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences among the workshop participants.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the Conference is English. All presentations will be made in English. No arrangements are available for simultaneous translation.

PROGRAMME

To increase the interaction among researchers, there will be no parallel sessions at the workshop. The plenary stream will consist of:

Four tutorial sessions (1h) :

* Patrick Siarry (Univ. Paris 12, FR)
Some contributions to the adaptation of discrete metaheuristics for continuous optimization

* Pascal Van Hentenryck (Brown Univ, USA)
Constraint-Based Local Search

* Michela Milano (Univ. Bologna, IT)
Mixing CP and IP for propagation and search

* Eric Bourreau (Univ. Montpellier, FR)
Global, Local and Meta Search: a framework based on keyword patterns

About ten technical sessions (1/2h) :

About ten of the submitted papers will be selected for presentation in a technical session. The objective of the technical sessions is to cover as broadly as possible the field of MLS+CP. Papers are selected on the basis of their outstanding quality and the fact that they discuss a topic not discussed in another technical session.

SUBMISSIONS

Researchers and practitioners in the field of Combination of metaheuristic and local search with Constraint Programming techniques are invited to submit a proposal of 4 pages by e-mail to :

ppcro [at] free.fr

Add 5 keywords and an abstract of approximately 10 lines. The left and right margins must be of 2.5cm whilst the up and down margins must be of 2.3cm.
Each page must contain only one column, with single spaced lines. Use Times new roman style for writting, or equivalent, with 11pt in size. Figures and tables must be directly included in the body of the text. An exemple of Latex file is available on the web site of the workshop :
http://ppcro.free.fr/mlscp.html

Accepted papers will be assigned to a technical session.

PUBLICATION

All accepted authors are invited to prepare a full paper, that will
be subjected to a regular refereeing process for publication in
Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms, published by Kluwer.
Informations, guidelines, etc will be soon available on the website.


IMPORTANT DATES

The schedule for the submission process is :

as soon as possible : registration (http://webhost.ua.ac.be/eume/workshops/mlscp)
Nov 10, 2005 : Deadline for registration (for organisational purposes)
Nov 15, 2005 : deadline for abstract submission
1 week after the submission : notification of acceptance or rejection
Dec 31, 2005 : deadline for full papers for publication

The workshop will take place on Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 November 2005.


POSSIBLE FINANCIAL SUPPORT

The organizers will cover the local costs (accommodation and food) for two young researchers (especially those from low currency countries). The support will be assigned to applicants following the rule "first come - first served". Applicants must register to the workshop and propose a technical talk. The applicants are invited to send an email to marc.sevaux@univ-ubs.fr


ORGANISATION

This workshop is organized by:

- The Computer Science Laboratory of Nantes-Atlantique (LINA FRE CNRS 2729)
(University of Nantes and Ecole des mines de Nantes)

- The LESTER laboratory, Lorient (FRE CNRS FRE 2734)
(Université de Bretagne Sud)

- The french working group "Constraint Programming & Operations Research"
http://ppcro.free.fr
(sponsored by ROADEF, the french OR society and AFPC, the french CP society)

- EU/ME, the European working group on Metaheuristics
http://webhost.ua.ac.be/eume/welcome.htm
(sponsored by EURO, the European Association of OR Societies)


INFORMATION

Mail to one of the local organisers:

Xavier.Gandibleux [at] univ-nantes.fr
Narendra.Jussien [at] emn.fr


Hoping to see you soon in Nantes, the organisation committee :

- Sophie Demassey
LINA - Ecole des mines de Nantes, France
Sophie.Demassey [at] emn.fr

- Xavier Gandibleux
LINA - University of Nantes, France
Xavier.Gandibleux [at] univ-nantes.fr

- Narendra Jussien
LINA - Ecole des mines de Nantes, France
Narendra.Jussien [at] emn.fr

- Fabien Le Huédé
Thales, France
Fabien.LeHuede [at] thalesgroup.com

- Marc Sevaux
University of Bretagne Sud-Lorient, France
Marc.Sevaux [at] univ-ubs.fr

- Kenneth Sörensen
TEW - University of Antwerp, Belgium
Kenneth.Sorensen [at] ua.ac.be