Hybrid 2016 - Special Session on Hybrid Metaheuristics for Dynamic and Uncertain Environments

Special Session on Hybrid Metaheuristics for Dynamic and Uncertain Environments
HM 2016 - 10th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics
June 8-10, 2016 - Plymouth, United Kingdom
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**AIMS AND SCOPE**
Many of the optimization problems we found in real world present some sort of dynamism or uncertainty in one or more of their components: objective function, dimension, constraints or variables’ domain. This type of problems has attracted the attention of the scientific community in recent years because their resolution entails big challenges for classic optimization methods. The combination of the strengths of different metaheuristics or the combination of metaheuristics and techniques from others domains (machine learning, classical artificial intelligence, fuzzy set theory, or probability theory) have shown to be one of the most successful tools to address these challenges. This special session aims at gathering the recent theoretical and practical advances, as well as exploring future directions in the field of hybrid metaheuristics for dynamic and uncertain environments.
The topics of the special session include both theoretical and experimental aspects of the application of hybrid metaheuristics to (but not restricted to):
- Single and multi-objective dynamic optimization problems
- Robust optimization
- Noisy fitness functions
- Approximate or imprecise fitness functions
- Dynamic constrained optimization problems
- Real-world problems with noise and/or dynamism
- Surrogate-models for dynamic and uncertain environments
- Theoretical results for problems with uncertainty and dynamism
**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15 pages maximum length in Springer LNCS format, including figures, table & references, and should report on new and unpublished work;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.
**PROCEEDINGS**
All accepted *regular* papers will be published in a volume of the series on Lecture Notes in Computer Science from Springer.
Electronic submissions should be formatted in pdf.
All the other kind of submissions (short papers, abstract of the oral presentations, poster presentations) will be published on the HM 2016 web site.
**SUBMISSION SYSTEM**
All papers must be submitted in PDF using EasyChair Submission System. The link to submit papers is the following: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hm2016.
**JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE**
Significantly extended versions of selected papers from the LNCS proceedings of HM 2016 will be considered for a special issue in Soft Computing (confirmed).
**IMPORTANT DATES**
- Paper submission deadline for general session: February 5th, 2016
- Paper submission deadline for special sessions: February 15th, 2016
- Notification: March 20th, 2016
- Camera-ready papers deadline: April 4th, 2016
- Early registration: April 15th, 2016
- Workshop: June 8-10, 2016
**ORGANIZERS**
- Amir Nakib, UPEC, Université Paris Est Créteil, France, e-mail: nakib-AT-u-pec.fr
- Antonio D. Masegosa, University of Deusto/IKERBASQUE, Spain, e-mail: ad.masegosa-AT-deusto.es
- Mario Pavone, University of Catania, Italy, e-mail: mpavone-AT-dmi.unict.it