ICHSA 2017 - 3rd International Conference on the Harmony Search Algorithm

The 3rd International Conference on the Harmony Search Algorithm (ICHSA 2017) will be held in Bilbao (Bizkaia, Basque Country, Spain), a beautiful venue internationally recognized for business, trading and its devotion to first-level R&D, as buttressed by more than two hundred technology-based companies and R&D centers established in the region. ICHSA 2017 targets information exchange and cross-fertilization among academia, research centers and industry. The 2017 edition of this international event will span beyond the development, design and applications of naive, variants, and hybrid methods of the Harmony Search Algorithm: prospective authors are encouraged to present their latest achievements around Computational Intelligence, with particular emphasis on innovative bio-inspired optimization methods (Evolutionary Computation, Swarm Intelligence) and their applicability to exploratory data analysis, predictive modelling and optimization.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Analytical convergence studies of meta-heuristics
Theoretical foundations of meta-heuristics
Improved variants of the HS algorithm
Hybridizations of HS and other avant-garde meta-heuristic solvers (e.g. FA, CS, BA)
Parallel and distributed computing implementations of bio-inspired optimization schemes over Big Data architectures
Examples of the application of meta-heuristics to data mining (including Deep Learning models)
Applications of bio-inspired optimization algorithms to different sectors