META 2012 - International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing

Inspired Computing

The 4th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, META’2012, will held in Port El-Kantaoiui (Sousse, Tunisia).
The Conference will be an exchange space thanks to the sessions of the research works presentations and also will integrate tutorials and a vocational training of metaheuristics and nature inspired computing.
The scope of the META’2012 conference includes, but is not limited to:
Local search, tabu search, simulated annealing, VNS, ILS, …
Evolutionary algorithms, swarm optimization, scatter search, …
Emergent nature inspired algorithms: quantum computing, artificial immune systems, bee colony, DNA computing, …
Parallel algorithms and hybrid methods with metaheuristics, machine learning, game theory, mathematical programming, constraint programming, co-evolutionary, …
Application to: logistics and transportation, telecommunications, scheduling, data mining, engineering design, bioinformatics, …
Theory of metaheuristics, landscape analysis, convergence, problem difficulty, very large neighbourhoods, …
Application to multi-objective optimization
Application in dynamic optimization, problems with uncertainty,bi-level optimization, …
Special issue in ISI International Journals (to be confirmed)
COR: Computers and Operations Research
ITOR: International Transactions in Operational Research
JMMA: Journal of Mathematical Modeling and Algorithms