Friday 6 April 2018

Call for Participation: Metaheuristics Summer School – from design to implementation


About MESS 2018
Many challenging applications in Science and Industry can be formulated as optimization problems. Due to their complexity and hardness often they cannot be solved in an exact manner within a reasonable time; thus approximate algorithms become the main alternatives to solve them thanks to their ability to efficiently explore large search spaces.

Metaheuristics are successful techniques able to solve such complex and hard optimization problems that arise in human activities, such as economics, industry, or engineering, and constitute a highly diverse family of optimization algorithms, each of which shows individual properties, and different strengths.

The first international Metaheuristics Summer School – MESS 2018 – is aimed at qualified and strongly motivated MSc and PhD students; post-docs; young researchers, and both academic and industrial professionals to provide an overview on the several metaheuristics techniques, and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art. As first edition, MESS 2018 wants to analyze all metaheuristics from its designing to its implementation. In particular, in MESS 2018 will be analyzed modern heuristic methods for search and optimization problems, as well as the classical exact optimization methods, seen also in the metaheuristics context. Problem characteristics that favor a heuristic approach will be discussed.

The courses will be held by world renowned experts in the field, and will be inspected practical aspects on complex combinatorial optimization problems, as well as examples of their successful real-world applications. The participants will have plenty of opportunities for debate and work with leaders in the field, benefiting from direct interaction and discussions in a stimulating environment. They will also have the possibility to present their recently results and/or their working in progress through oral or poster presentations, and interact with their scientific peers, in a friendly and constructive environment.

All students of the school will be invited to the “Metaheuristics Competition”, where each of them, divided in working groups, will develop a metaheuristic solution on a given problem.

MESS 2018 will involve a total of 36-40 hours of lectures, therefore in according to the academic system, all PhD and master students attending to the summer school will may get 8 ECTS points. Further, during the summer school the students will tackle homeworks, or project development.

Topics

– Single-solution based Metaheuristics 
– Population-based Metaheuristics 
– Continuous, Discrete & Mixed Optimization 
– Multi-Objective Optimization 
– Metaheuristics in Machine Learning 
– Metaheuristics in Data Analytics & Big Data 
– Metaheuristics; Mathematical Programming; Exact Methods 
– Metaheuristics in Dynamic Environments 
– Metaheuristics in Uncertainty Management 
– Parallel Metaheuristics 
– Hybrid Metaheuristics 
– Interactive Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

Important Dates

Application Deadline: April 15, 2018
Notification acceptance: April 30, 2018

Application

The school is open to all qualified, motivated and pre-selected candidates interested in the metaheuristics field, and in any topic proposed by the school. Advanced graduate and undergraduate students; PhD students; Post-Docs; and young researchers (both academic and industrial), and academic as well as industrial professionals are encouraged to apply.

The expected school fee is of €550 for Master and Phd students, €650 for post-docs and research fellows, and €750 for all other kinds of participants. The fee will include all course materials, coffee breaks, WiFi Internet Connection, attending to the workshop, a guided tour, social dinner, and a welcome party on the swimming-pool.


Applications to attend MESS 2018 should be received before or at most 15 April 2018. All accepted applicants will receive the notification by 30 April 2018 in according to the application time.

All fees will be increased by euro 150 after the early registration deadline.

Those who plan to present talk or a poster must submit the abstract in the relative section (deadline 15th April 2018).
Some scholarships are in planning for the best MSc. and PhD. students attending to the School. The decision will be made by the scientific committee at the time of the school, taking into account candidates’ CVs, poster and oral presentation. All PhD students attending the school will be considered for the grant.

Oral & Poster Presentation

MESS 2018 aims to provide a stimulating environment where MSc. and PhD Students, Post-Doc and young researchers may interact and exchange ideas with their scientific peers, in a friendly and constructive way. All participants will have the opportunity to present their research activities on the topics of the school.

All participants may submit an abstract (in any printable pdf format) of their recent results, or works in progress, to be presented in a dedicated session as oral, or poster presentation. The abstract must be submitted before April 15, and must be written in English. Each abstract will be reviewed by the Workshop Chairs and/or Scientific Committee, which will decide on the format of the presentation (oral or poster), in according to the authors’ choice. All abstracts, in any format, will be published in the electronic book of the summer school, which will be put online on the website.

For poster presentation, a board will be provided to mount the poster including all logistic material (push tacks or velcro adhesive). You need only to print and bring with you the poster to the school.
For more information visit https://www.ants-lab.it/mess2018/ or send an email to mess.school@ANTs-lab.it

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