CFP: Workshop on Landscape-Aware Heuristic Search (PPSN 2016)

Workshop on Landscape-Aware Heuristic Search

http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/events/ppsn2016-landscape/
Held in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2016)
Edinburgh, Scotland, 17-21 September 2016

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 6 June, 2016
Acceptance notification: 20 June, 2016
Workshop date (TBC): 17 or 18 September, 2016

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

Fitness landscape analysis and visualisation can provide significant insights into problem instances and algorithm behaviour. The aim of the workshop is to encourage and promote the use of landscape analysis to improve search algorithms and their understanding. Examples include landscape analysis as a tool to inform the design of algorithms, landscape metrics for online adaptation of search strategies, mining landscape information to predict instance hardness and algorithm runtime. The workshop seeks to bring together researchers interested in landscape analysis and in exploiting problem structure to develop informed search strategies. The workshop provides a unique opportunity to present existing work, propose new ideas or put forward position statements.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

• Evolvability and searchability characterisation
• Exploiting problem structure
• Exploratory landscape analysis
• Fitness landscape analysis
• Fitness landscape visualisation
• Fitness landscape theory
• Grey-box optimisation
• Informed search strategies
• Local optima networks
• Multi-objective fitness landscapes
• Performance and failure prediction

SUBMISSIONS

• We invite submissions of extended abstracts of up to 3 pages, including figures and references, in the Springer LNCS format.
• Please send the PDF of your submission by email to the organisers (below).

ORGANISERS

Nadarajen Veerapen and Gabriela Ochoa
University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
Email: { nve,goc } @ cs.stir.ac.uk