[We apologize for cross-postings] ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO June, 5th 2010 ***** ********************************************************************** META'2010 International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing 28-30 Oct 2010 Djerba Island, Tunisia http://www.lifl.fr/META10 ********************************************************************** The 2nd International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, META’10, will held in Djerba Island, Tunisia from 28 to 30 Oct 2010. The Conference will be an exchange space thanks to the sessions of the research works presentations and also will integrate tutorials and a vocational training of metaheuristics and nature inspired computing. The scope of the META’2010 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 * Application in dynamic optimization, problems with uncertainty, … Submission papers: _________________ - Submission of papers should be in shape of an abstract of two pages sent before the June, 5th 2010 via the website. - Selected papers will be published in international journals (ISI journals): COR, ITOR, JMMA, ... - Predefined styles are available on the website http://www.lifl.fr/META10 that we invite you to visit regularly and which evolves when the organization progresses. - Invited sessions and tutorials: Deadline 15th May 2010. 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) - M. Batouche (SA) - 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) - H-B. Duan (CN) - P. Festa (IT) - S. Fidanova (BU) - 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) - R. Middendorf (D) - N. Monmarché (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) * Clarisse Dhaenens (INRIA) * Arnaud Liefooghe (INRIA) * Marie-Eléonore Marmion (INRIA) * H. Masri (ISG, Tunisia) * A. Klabi (ISG, Tunisia)