META’2012 International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing
Dates:
- Paper submission: May 15, 2012
- Session/Tutorial submission: May 15, 2012
- Paper notification: July 15, 2012
- Session/Tutorial notification: June 15, 2012
- Conference: October 27-31, 2012
From the website:
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, …
The “proceedings” for Meta ’10 can be seen at: Meta ’10 papers. It would be more accurate to say “extended abstracts” because, for example,
Luis Filipe de Mello Santos, Daniel Madeira, Esteban Clua, Simone Martins and Alexandre Plastino. A parallel GRASP resolution for a GPU architecture
runs all of two (2) pages. As is about the average length of the other twenty (20) papers that I checked.
I like concise writing but two pages to describe a parallel GRASP setup on a GPU architecture? Just an enticement (there is an ugly word I could use) to get you to read the ISI journal with the article.
Conference and its content look very interesting. Can’t say I care for the marketing technique for the journals in question. Not objecting to the marketing of the journals, but don’t say proceedings when what is meant is ads for the journals.