Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network. **************************************************************************************** OLA'2026 International Conference on Optimization and Learning 28-30 April 2026 Chania, Crete, Greece http://ola2026.sciencesconf.org/ SCOPUS Springer Proceedings **************************************************************************************** OLA is a conference focusing on the future challenges of optimization and/or machine learning methods and their applications. The conference OLA'2026 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'2026 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of optimization and/or machine learning research such as big optimization and learning, optimization for learning, learning for optimization, optimization and learning under uncertainty, deep learning, new high-impact applications, parameter tuning, 4th industrial revolution, computer vision, hybridization issues, optimization-simulation, meta-modeling, high-performance computing, parallel and distributed optimization and learning, surrogate modeling, multi-objective optimization ... Submission papers: We will accept two different types of submissions: - S1: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages - S2: Original research contributions of a maximum of 12 pages - S3: High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last year, been submitted or accepted for journal publication Important dates: =============== Paper submission deadline extension Jan 16, 2026 Proceedings: Accepted papers in categories S1 and S2 will be published in the proceedings. A SCOPUS and DBLP indexed Springer book will be published for accepted long papers. Proceedings will be available at the conference. -- *********************************************************************** OLA'2026 10th International Conference on Optimization and Learning (SCOPUS, Springer) April 28-30, 2026, Creta, Greece, https://ola2026.sciencesconf.org *********************************************************************** Prof. El-ghazali TALBI Polytech'Lille, University Lille - INRIA CRISTAL - CNRS