HEUNET 2012 - The 3rd Workshop on Heuristic Methods for the Design, Deployment, and Reliability of Networks and Network Applications (HEUNET 2012)

The widespread of the Internet has given further opportunities for providing new services and web-based applications. However, such applications are often accompanied by high complexities and the number of standards for applications is rapidly increasing. Representing related problems as optimization problems may not guarantee exact analytical solutions anymore, and the need for advanced heuristic techniques has become prevalent. Heuristic techniques provide a wealth of methods to handle tasks in complex application domains. Such techniques include evolutionary computing techniques, tabu search, simulated annealing, hybrid methods such as ensemble methods, and many others.
This workshop will focus on heuristic methods to meet the needs of modern Internet-based applications and their underlying networking infrastructure. It is intended to bring together researchers from different communities with similar needs, and to provide a base for scientific exchanges of research ideas.