META'2012
International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing

27-31 Oct 2012
Port El Kantaoui, Sousse, Tunisia

http://www.lifl.fr/META2012

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The 4th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, META'12, will held in Port El Kantaoui, Sousse, Tunisia from 27 to 31 Oct 2012.



The Conference will be an exchange space thanks to the sessions of the research works presentations and also will integrate tutorials, workshops and a vocational training of metaheuristics and nature inspired computing.



The scope of the METAí2012 conference includes, but is not limited to:

* Local search, tabu search, simulated annealing, VNS, ILS,
* Evolutionary algorithms, swarm optimization, scatter search,
* Emergent nature inspired algorithms: quantum computing, artificial immune systems, bee colony, DNA computing, ...
* Parallel algorithms and hybrid methods with metaheuristics, machine learning, game theory, mathematical programming, constraint programming, co-evolutionary,
* Application to: logistics and transportation, telecommunications, scheduling, data mining, engineering design, bioinformatics,
* Theory of metaheuristics, landscape analysis, convergence, problem difficulty, very large neighbourhoods,
* Application to multi-objective optimization, bi-level optimization
* Application in dynamic optimization, problems with uncertainty,
Submission papers:
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- Submission of papers should be in shape of an abstract of two pages sent before the 5th May 2012 via the website.

- Selected papers will be published in international journals (ISI journals).
- Predefined styles are available on the website http://www.lifl.fr/META2012 that we invite you to visit regularly and which evolves when the organization progresses.

Invited sessions, workshops and tutorials: Deadline 5th May 2012. contact talbi@lifl.fr


E-G. Talbi ( Conference Chair)
K. Mellouli (Co-chair)

PC Members (to be completed)
- B. Aghezzaf (MO)
- M. Aider (DZ)
- A. M. Alimi (TN)
- E. Alba (ES)
- R. Battiti (IT)
- F. Ben Abdelaziz (TN)
- J. Blazewicz (PL)
- C. Blum (ES)
- P. Bouvry (LX)
- E. Burke (UK)
- A. Caminada (FR)
- H. Chabchoub (TN)
- T. Crainic (CA)
- K. F. Doerner (AT)
- M. Dorigo (BE)
- P. Festa (IT)
- S. Fidanova (BG)
- J. Figueira (PO)
- M. Gendreau (CA)
- M. Gourgand (FR)
- M. Gravel (CA)
- S. Hanafi (FR)
- J-K. Hao (FR)
- M. Haouari (TN)
- P. Isasi (ES)
- M. Krajecki (FR)
- M. Laguna (US)
- A. Lokketangen (NW)
- T. Loukil (TN)
- S. Martins (BR)
- M. Menai (SA)
- R. Middendorf (D)
- N. MonmarchÈ (FR)
- I. H. Osman (LE)
- M. Pirlot (BE)
- G. Raidl (AT)
- M. Resende (US)
- C. Ribeiro (BR)
- M. Schoenauer (FR)
- M. Sevaux (FR)
- P. Siarry (FR)
- K. Sorensen (BE)
- T. Stutzle (BE)
- J. Teghem (BE)
- M. Toulouse (CA)
- K-C. Tan (SG)
- X-S. Yang (GB)
- A. Zomaya (AU)

Organizing Committee (to be completed):
* Laetitia Jourdan (chair)
* Boutheina Benyaghlane (co-chair)

Publicity chair :
* Amir Nakib (Univ. Paris Est Creteil, France)