[hpc-announce] CFP EVOLVE 2015 - track on Probabilistic Models and Metaheuristics for Scheduling

[Marc-Eduard Frincu]

Call for Papers

Special session on "Probabilistic Models and Metaheuristics for Scheduling"

EVOLVE 2015 International Conference: A Bridge between Probability, Set Oriented Numerics, and
Evolutionary Computing

http://www.evolve-conference.org/2015home

Deadline: February 15

June 18-24, 2015
Iasi, Romania

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Aim
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The aim of this session is to group original contributions on scalable and robust scheduling
metaheuristics based on appropriate probabilistic models and addressing various types of real
world applications. Theoretical analyses as well as experimental studies are welcome.

Topics
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The topics include but are not limited to:
-        scheduling performance measures
-        probabilistic models in scheduling (reliability/failure models, Bayesian networks, etc.)
-        constructive scheduling heuristics versus iterative-improvement heuristics
-        population-based scheduling metaheuristics (e.g. estimation of distribution algorithms, evolutionary algorithms, ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization etc.)
-        local search based scheduling metaheuristics (tabu search, variable neighborhood search, iterated local search, greedy randomized adaptive search, simulated annealing etc.)
-        hybridization of metaheuristics with various local search heuristics
-        scalability of scheduling algorithms
-        real time scheduling
-        energy aware scheduling
-        applications in cloud computing, job-shop and flow-shop scheduling problems, vehicle routing problems, preventive maintenance scheduling etc.


Submission
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Authors are invited to submit through Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evolve2015) either

* full-length papers (maximum 15 pages) containing original results (to be published in Springer series "Studies in Computational Intelligence")

or

* extended abstracts (maximum 4 pages) presenting work in progress or software prototypes (to be included in an electronic proceedings with ISBN).

All submissions must be in English and edited in Latex or Word, using the templates of the Springer book series http://www.springer.com/series/4240


Deadlines
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February 15, 2015:         deadline for paper submission
March 15, 2015:         author notification
March 30, 2015:         final camera-ready papers due


Co-chairs  
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Marc Eduard Frincu, University of Southern California, USA
Stephane Genaud, ENSIIE Engineering School, France
Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania