META’2008

META’2008, International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, will be held 29-31 Oct 2008 in Hammamet, 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’2008 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, ...