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Call for Papers
HYBRID METAHEURISTICS - HM 2005
Second International Workshop
August 29-31, 2005
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~hm2005/
INTRODUCTION
Metaheuristics have received considerable interest in the fields of
applied artificial intelligence and combinatorial optimization. Plenty
of hard problems in a huge variety of areas, including bioinformatics,
logistics, engineering, business, etc., have been tackled successfully
with metaheuristic approaches. For many problems the resulting
algorithms are considered to be the state-of-the-art methods.
In recent years, it has become evident that the concentration on a
sole metaheuristic is rather restrictive. A skilled combination of
concepts of different metaheuristics, a so called hybrid
metaheuristic, can provide a more efficient behavior and a higher
flexibility when dealing with real-world and large-scale
problems. Also the hybridization of metaheuristics with other AI/OR
techniques, such as integer linear programming and constraint
programming, has been proven to be very effective.
SCOPE
The design and implementation of hybrid metaheuristics rises problems
going beyond questions about the design of a single metaheuristic.
Contributions to the workshop should address the combination and
comparison of different metaheuristic components and concepts.
In contrast to standard research in metaheuristics, also negative
results (e.g., a component shows poor performance for the majority of
test instances) are of considerable importance in hybridization. Such
results have often been ignored in standard metaheuristics research.
Further, the above mentioned enlarged selection of parameters will
attract more attention to this part of designing algorithms.
The HM 2005 workshop aims at papers that give good examples for
carefully designed and well-analyzed hybrid metaheuristics. The
extraction of guidelines for the general design of hybrid
metaheuristics would be desirable.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The scope of this workshop includes, but is not limited, to:
- novel combinations of components from different metaheuristics,
- hybridization of metaheuristics and AI/OR techniques,
- low-level hybridization,
- high-level hybridization, portfolio techniques, expert systems,
- co-operative search,
- taxonomy, terminology, classification of hybrid metaheuristics,
- co-evolution techniques,
- automated parameter tuning,
- empirical and statistical comparison,
- theoretical aspects of hybridization,
- parallelization,
- software libraries.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Researchers are invited to submit papers of not more than 12 pages.
Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers in LaTeX.
Papers must be submitted in LNCS style (see Information for LNCS
Authors at www.springeronline.com).
Further information on the submission procedure will be available soon
at the workshop website.
Every paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the program
committee. Researchers are explicitly encouraged to address
statistical validity of their results, if they compare different
approaches. Source code and problem instances should (if relevant) be
made available on the Internet.
The submitted papers must be original works. Moreover, simultaneous
submission to other conferences with published proceedings is not
permitted.
PROCEEDINGS
Accepted papers will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series of Springer-Verlag.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers: April 1, 2005
Notification of acceptance: May 22, 2005
Camera-ready papers: June 10, 2005
Workshop: August 29-31, 2005
FURTHER REMARKS
HM 2005 shall be a non-profit workshop. The workshop fee will be kept
as low as possible.
Please, note that the HM 2005 workshop will be celebrated after MIC
2005, which will take place in August 22-26,2005, at Vienna(Austria).
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Maria Blesa, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Christian Blum, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Andrea Roli, Universita "G.D'Annunzio", Italy
Michael Sampels, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Enrique Alba, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
Mauro Birattari, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Thomas Bousonville, ILOG, France
Kirsten Bremke, AT Kearney, Germany
Ralf Bruns, Fachhochschule Hannover, Germany
Oscar Cordon, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Carlos Cotta, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
Luca Di Gaspero, Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italy
Marco Dorigo, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Filippo Focacci, ILOG, France
Joshua Knowles, University of Manchester, England
Frank Koester, Universitaet Oldenburg, Germany
Andrea Lodi, Universita di Bologna, Italy
Vittorio Maniezzo, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
Monaldo Mastrolilli, IDSIA, Switzerland
Daniel Merkle, Universitaet Leipzig, Germany
Bernd Meyer, Monash University, Australia
Michela Milano, Universita di Bologna, Italy
Olivia Rossi-Doria, Rome, Italy
Andrea Schaerf, Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italy
Thomas Stuetzle, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
El-Ghazali Talbi, Ecole Polytech. Universitaire de Lille, France
Fatos Xhafa, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Mark Zlochin, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
LOCAL ORGANIZATION
Maria Blesa, Christian Blum
Dept. Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Jordi Girona 1-3, C6-A0 Campus Nord
E-08034 Barcelona, Spain
CONTACT INFORMATION
hm2005@lsi.upc.edu
http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~hm2005/
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