Dear colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network. Thanks for your collaboration. **********************************************************************                               META'2023 International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing                             01-04 Nov 2023                           Marrakech, Morocco                 http://meta2023.sciencesconf.org/ ********************************************************************** META is one of the main event focusing on the progress of the area of metaheuristics and their applications. As in previous editions, META’2023 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in metaheuristics to discuss recent research results, to develop new ideas and collaborations, and to meet old friends and make new ones in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. All selected long papers will be published in the Springer (SCOPUS, ISI, DBLP) conference proceedings. META'2023 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of metaheuristic research such as new algorithmic developments, high-impact applications, new research challenges, theoretical developments, implementation issues, and in-depth experimental studies. META'2023 strives for a high-quality program that will be completed by a number of invited talks, tutorials, workshops and special sessions. The scope of the META conference includes, but is not limited to:     * Local search, tabu search, simulated annealing, VNS, ILS, …     * Evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, bio-inspired algorithms, …     * Emergent nature inspired algorithms: artificial immune systems, bee colony, DNA computing, …     * Quantum computing, neuromorphic computing     * Parallel and distributed algorithms     * Decomposition methods     * Hybrid methods with machine learning, game theory, mathematical programming, constraint programming, co-evolutionary, …     * Application to real-lide problems: logistics and transportation, networks, scheduling, data mining, engineering design, energy, cloud, bio-medical, …     * Theory of metaheuristics, landscape analysis, convergence, problem difficulty, very large neighbourhoods, …     * Multi-objective optimization, bi-level optimization     * Dynamic optimization, problems with uncertainty, stochastic optimization, robust optimization, …     * Parameter tuning (static, dynamic, adaptive, self-adaptive)     * Hyper-heuristics, cross-domain metaheuristics     * Software frameworks for metaheuristics and nature inspired computing Submission of papers: ____________________ - Submission of papers via the website     S1) Short papers: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages.     S2) Long papers: Original research contributions of a maximum of 12 pages.     S3) Journal papers: High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last year, been submitted or accepted for journal publication. For this special case, the submission should have the same title that the accepted work, the abstract AND the complete reference of the work. - Proceedings of the conference will be provided. Selected papers of type S2 will be published in a Springer book (SCOPUS, ISI, DBLP). - Predefined styles are available on the website http://meta2023.sciencesconf.org/ - Proposals for invited sessions, workshops and tutorials: contact meta2023@sciencesconf.org Important dates _______________ - Submission deadline: April 28, 2023 - Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2023 -- *********************************************************************** META'2023 International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing (SCOPUS, Springer) Marrakech, Morocco, Nov 1-4, 2023 https://meta2023.sciencesconf.org/ *********************************************************************** Prof. El-ghazali TALBI Polytech'Lille, University Lille - INRIA CRISTAL - CNRS