[hpc-announce] HM 2019 - 11th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics (1st CfP)

[Maria J. Blesa]

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HM 2019 - 11th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics
January 16-18, 2019 - Concepcion, Chile

Website: http://hm2019.ing.udec.cl/
Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hm2019
Proceedings: Spinger LNCS

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Metaheuristics are considered state-of-the-art methods for many
hard optimization problems. At some point, however, it has become
evident that the concentration on a sole metaheuristic is rather
restrictive. A skilled combination of concepts from different
optimization techniques can provide a more efficient behavior and
a higher flexibility when dealing with real-world and large-scale
problems. Hybrid Metaheuristics are techniques for optimization
that combine different metaheuristics or integrate AI/OR techniques
into metaheuristics. Since 2004, the HM Workshops are considered
to be an international forum for researchers in the area hybrid
metaheuristics.


**** KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Haroldo Gambini Santos, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil
Manuel Lopez-Ibanez, The University of Manchester, UK
Guenther R. Raidl, Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria
Christian Blum, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC),
Spain


**** PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are encouraged to submit novel and unpublished original
contributions related to the topics of the workshop. HM 2019
includes two different types of submission:

- Regular papers (15p max), to be presented in a 30' talk at the conference.

- Poster papers (4p max), to be presented by a poster at the conference.

As in previous editions of the workshop, all accepted papers
(regular and poster) will be published in a volume of the series
on LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Science - from Springer.

Your paper must be written in English using the standard Lecture Notes
in Computer Science (LNCS) template.


**** IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: July 27, 2018
Notification: October 1, 2018
Camera-ready paper submission: October 19, 2018
Conference: January 16-18, 2019


**** ORGANIZATION

Congress Chair: Pedro Pinacho Davidson
Program Chairs: Christian Blum, Haroldo Gambini Santos
Publication and Publicity Chair: Maria J. Blesa
Local Organization Chair: Julio Godoy del Campo


**** INQUIRIES

Email: ppinacho at udec.cl

Looking forward to welcoming you to Concepcion in January 2019.

The HM 2019 organizing team!

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