Extended deadline for HM 2016: 5th Feb 2016 - Save the Date!

[Mario Pavone]

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HM 2016 - 10th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics
June 8-10, 2016 - Plymouth, United Kingdom

http://www.dmi.unict.it/hm2016/
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hm2016
hm2016 at dmi.unict.it


**** EXTENDED deadline to 5th February 2016 ****

**** PROCEEDINGS in LNCS, Springer
http://www.dmi.unict.it/hm2016/submission.html

**** SPECIAL ISSUE in SOFT COMPUTING, Springer
http://www.dmi.unict.it/hm2016/call.html


**** You are invited to submit papers to this exciting event! ***

**** HM 2016 is organized as a NON-PROFIT event.


**** PLENARY SPEAKERS **

** Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV, Mexico
?Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization using Hybrid Approaches?

** Jin-Kao Hao, University of Angers, France
?Hybrid Methods for some Knapsack Problems: lessons learnt?

** Helena Ramalhinho Lourenço, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Title: TBA


**** SUBMISSIONS
HM 2016 includes two different types of submission:
1) *regular paper*: 15 pages maximum length in Springer LNCS format,  
including figures, table & references, and should report on new and  
unpublished work;

2) *abstract for oral/poster presentation* (no page restriction; any  
format): it should discuss work in progress; new research ideas; works  
previously published elsewhere (it is essential that a reference to  
the previous article is clearly cited); and all that may be relevant  
and fruitful for soliciting discussions at the workshop.


**** SPECIAL SESSIONS **
** special sessions deadline: 15th February 2016 **

** ?Hybrid Metaheuristics for Bioinformatics?
organizers: Laetitia Jourdan and Julia Handl

** ?Hybrid Metaheuristics for Dynamic Environments?
organizers: Amir Nakib and Antonio Masegosa

** ?Engineering Applications of Hybrid Metaheuristics?
organizer: Alessandro Di Nuovo, Graziella Figueredo

** ?Hybrid metaheuristics in Operational Research?
organizer: Djamila Ouelhadj and Mario Pavone

more special sessions will be announced!
http://www.dmi.unict.it/hm2016/special-sessions.html

**** PC Members
http://www.dmi.unict.it/hm2016/committee.html

**** Organizing Team
- honorary chair: Angelo Cangelosi
- general chairs: Vincenzo Cutello & Alessandro Di Nuovo
- Program Chairs: Christian Blum, Mario Pavone & El-Ghazali Talbi
- Publication Chair: Maria J. Blesa
- Publicity Chair: Antonio D. Masegosa
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http://www.dmi.unict.it/hm2016/
hm2016 at dmi.unict.it


Looking forward to welcoming you to Plymouth in June 2016.


-- 
Dr. Mario Pavone (PhD)
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Catania
V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy
tel: 0039 095 7383038
fax: 0039 095 330094
Email: mpavone at dmi.unict.it
http://www.dmi.unict.it/mpavone/
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