MESS 2020 :: Metaheuristics Summer School - Learning & Optimization from Big Data

[Mario Pavone]

1st Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies)

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MESS 2020 - Metaheuristics Summer School
~ Learning & Optimization from Big Data ~
27-31 July 2020, Catania, Italy

https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2020/
mess.school at ANTs-lab.it
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** APPLICATION DEADLINE: 5th March 2020 **


MESS 2020 is aimed at qualified and strongly motivated MSc and PhD  
students; post-docs; young researchers, and both academic and  
industrial professionals to provide an overview on the several  
metaheuristics techniques, and an in-depth analysis of the  
state-of-the-art. The main theme of the 2020 edition is ?Learning and  
Optimization from Big Data?, therefore MESS 2020 wants to focus on (i)  
Learning for Metaheuristics; (ii) Optimization in Machine Learning;  
and (iii) how Optimization and Learning affect the Metaheuristics  
making them relevant in handling Big Data.

The courses will be held by world renowned experts in the field, and  
will be inspected practical aspects on complex combinatorial  
optimization problems, as well as examples of their successful  
real-world applications. The participants will have plenty of  
opportunities for debate and work with leaders in the field,  
benefiting from direct interaction and discussions in a stimulating  
environment. They will also have the possibility to present their  
recently results and/or their working in progress through oral or  
poster presentations, and interact with their scientific peers, in a  
friendly and constructive environment.

MESS 2020 will involve a total of 36-40 hours of lectures, therefore  
in according to the academic system, all PhD and master students  
attending to the summer school will may get 8 ECTS points. Further,  
during the summer school the students will tackle homework, or project  
development.

MESS 2020 will take place at the ?Palazzo delle Scienze?, today place  
of the Department of Economics and Business of the University of  
Catania.


** MESS 2020 Workshop

All participants may submit an abstract of their recent results, or  
works in progress, for presentation and having the opportunities for  
debate and interact with leaders in the field. Workshop Organizers and  
Scientific Committee will review the abstracts and will recommend for  
the format of the presentation (oral or poster). All abstracts will be  
published on the electronic hands-out book of the summer school.

The Abstracts must be submitted by *March 5, 2020*.


** MESS 2020 Metaheuristics Competition

All participants to the school will be involved in the ?Metaheuristics  
Competition?, where each of them, individually or divided in working  
groups, they will must develop a metaheuristic solution on the given  
problem. The top three of the competition ranking will receive the  
MESS 2020 prize. Further, the students, whose algorithms will rank in  
the five top of the competition ranking, will be invited to submit a  
report/manuscript of their work to be published in the special MESS  
2020 Volume of the AIRO Springer Series.


** School Directors

+ Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy
+ Ender Ozcan, University of Nottingham, UK
+ Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy
+ El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille 1, France
+ Daniele Vigo, University of Bologna, Italy


https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2020/   --   mess.school at ANTs-lab.it
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MESS_school

-- 
Mario F. Pavone, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Catania
V.le A. Doria 6 - 95125 Catania, Italy
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