Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network. **************************************************************************************** OLA'2018 International Workshop on Optimization and Learning: Challenges and Applications 26-28 Feb 2018 Alicante Spain http://ola2018.sciencesconf.org/ **************************************************************************************** A special issue in the ISI journal ITOR (International Transactions in Operational Research) is planned. OLA is a workshop focusing on the future challenges of optimization and learning methods and their applications. The workshop OLA'2018 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in optimization and learning to discuss recent research results and to develop new ideas and collaborations in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. OLA'2018 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of optimization and learning research such as new high-impact applications, parameter tuning, 4th industrial revolution, new research challenges, hybridization issues, optimization-simulation, meta-modeling, high-performance and exascale computing, surrogate modeling, multi-objective optimization, optimization for machine learning, machine learning for optimization. Important dates - Submission deadline Nov 3, 2017 - Proposals of invited sessions Nov 3, 2017 - Notification of acceptance Nov 17, 2017 Paper submission - Abstracts of maximum 2 pages -- ****************************** OLA'2018 26-28 Feb 2018, Alicante, Spain http://ola2018.sciencesconf.org ****************************** Prof. El-ghazali TALBI Polytech'Lille, University Lille 1 - INRIA - CNRS