[APDIO] 3rd Call for Papers: VNS2017 (5th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search), Brazil Oct 2-4 2017

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5th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search ICVNS'17

 

It is a pleasure to invite you to the 5th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search (IC on VNS), which will be held in Ouro Preto, Brazil, on Oct 2-4, 2017.

 

website: http://vnsconference.ufop.br/

 

CFP: https://easychair.org/cfp/VNS2017

 

VNS is a metaheuristic based on systematic changes in the neighborhood structure within a search, for solving optimization problems and related tasks. The main goal of the IC on VNS is to provide a stimulating environment in which researchers coming from various scientific fields can share and discuss their knowledge, expertise and ideas related to the VNS Metaheuristic and its applications.

 

Important Dates

May 31, 2017    Paper and/or Abstract submission

July 03, 2017   Acceptance notice

August 01, 2017 Early registration ends

August 01, 2017 Submission of papers for the Proceedings ends

September 04, 2017      Preliminary program schedule notice

October 02, 2017 - October 4, 2017      Conference date

 

 

Conference proceedings and Book of Abstracts:

All papers accepted for presentation will be published in a special issue of  Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics  (ENDM) journal. ENDN is indexed by SCOPUS with the following indexes: SNIP: 0.389; SJR: 0.320; SiteScore: 0.350.

 

Participants are also allowed to send just an abstract of their presentation. All the abstracts from accepted papers/talks will be published in the book of abstracts.

 

Publication in Special Issues:

Special issues of International International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR, Impact factor 1.255 ISSN 1475-3995) and  Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research  (YUJOR, Impact factor 0.53 ISSN 0354-0243) will be dedicated to significantly extended and improved versions of the papers presented at the VNS 2017 conference. However, submission will also be open for papers which were not initially presented at the conference.

 

Conference themes - Theory and methodology:

Theoretical or empirical analysis of VNS

New variants of deterministic and stochastic VNS

Continuous global VNS

Convergent VNS methods

Metheuristics and VNS

Formulation space VNS

Multi-objective VNS

Parallel VNS

VNS hybrids

 

Conference themes - Applications:

 

Mixed integer programming

Graphs, communication networks

Clustering, data mining, location

Inventory, routing, supply chains

Packing and covering

Discovery sciences

Other real world problems

 

Submission instructions:

 

Submissions can consist of:

A short abstract (up to half page). Accepted abstracts will appear in a short book of abstracts (without ISBN).

A paper of up to eight pages prepared using ENDM LaTeX macro files (which you can download from  here ). Accepted papers will appear in a Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics volume and their abstracts will apear in the short abstracts book.

 

Paper submission:

The papers must be submitted through the EasyChair platform:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vns2017

 

Abstract submission:

The abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair platform:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vns2017

 

In order to include your abstract in the book of abstracts of the conference, it must be carefully checked to avoid any English mistake. Additionally, abstract length must be set to a number of words between 150 and 200. Finally, we encourage you to review the affiliations and names of the authors A short acknowledgement is welcome under your abstract if necessary. Finally, we encourage you to carefully review the affiliations and names of the authors.

 

Questions?

Email: vnsconference2017@gmail.com

 

Organizing Committee:

General Chair:

Nenad Mladenovic - Mathematical Institute SANU and JUPIM, Serbia.

 

Honorary Chair:

Pierre Hansen - GERAD, Montréal, Canada

 

Conference Chairs:

Haroldo Gambini Santos - UFOP, Brazil

Vitor Nazário Coelho - UFF, Brazil

Local Committee Chairs:

 

Local Committee Chairs:

Puca Huachi Vaz Penna - UFOP, Brazil

Marcone Jamilson Freitas Souza - UFOP, Brazil

Rafael A.M. Gomes - UFOP, Brazil

 

Proceedings and Organizing Chairs:

Igor Machado Coelho - UERJ, Brazil

Thays Aparecida de Oliveira - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

 

Local Staff:

Minghe Hu - UFOP, Brazil

 

 

Program Committee

Abdulaziz Alkandari -Kuwait Insitute, Kuwait

Alexandre Martins - UFOP, Brazil

Alysson M. Costa - University of Melbourne, Australia

Anand Subramanian - UFPB, Brazil

André Gustavo - University of Melbourne, Australia

Andréa Cynthia Santos - Université de Technologie de Troyes, France

Angelo Sifaleras - University of Macedonia, Greece

Belén Melián - University La Laguna, Spain

Bruno Nazário Coelho - UFOP, Brazil

Celso C. Ribeiro - UFF, Brazil

Christian Blum - Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain

Daniel Aloise - UFRN, Brazil

Eduardo G. Pardo - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Emilio Carrizosa - University of Sevilla, Spain

Felipe M. Müller - UFSM, Brazil

Frederico Gadelha Guimaraes - UFMG, Brazil

Geraldo Robson Mateus - UFMG, Brazil

Gilles Caporossi - HEC Montréal, Canada

Günther Raidl - TU Wien, Austria

Gustavo Semaan - UFF, Brazil

Helena Ramalhinho Lourenço - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

José A. Moreno-Perez - University of La Laguna, Spain

Julio Brito - University of La Laguna, Spain

Luciana Buriol - UFRGS, Brazil

Lucidio Cabral - UFPB, Brazil

Luiz Satoru Ochi - UFF, Brazil

Marcus Ritt - UFRGS, Brazil

Martin Ravetti - UFMG, Brazil

Mauricio Resende - Amazon, USA

Miri Cohen - Braude College of Engineering, Israel

Olinto Araújo - UFSM, Brazil

Patrick Siarry - University of East Paris Créteil Val de Marne, France

Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam - University of Tehran, Iran

Rosiane de Freitas - UFAM/ICOMP, Brazil

Sebastián Urrutia - UFMG, Brazil

Sérgio Ricardo de Souza - CEFET MG, Brazil

Simone Martins - UFF, Brazil

Thibaut Lust - Univ. Pierre Marie Curie, France

Thibaut Vidal - PUC-RIO, Brazil

Thomas Stützle - TU Darmstadt, Germany

Tulio Toffolo - UFOP, Brazil / KU Leuven, Belgium

Yuri Kochetov - Novosibirsk, Russia

 

Ouro Preto

 

Ouro Preto is located about 100/km from the capital of Minas Gerais state, Belo Horizonte, in a region which is a cultural center with various well-known poets, musicians, and Brazilian visual artists. Due to its architecture, composed by the biggest group of Baroque works in Brazil, Ouro Preto was the first Brazilian town entitled as World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO in 1980.

Born from explorer Antônio Dias’s discovery of “ouro preto” (black gold) in the Tripuí riverbed in the 17 th century, the history of the city could be conflated with Brazil’s. Ouro Preto enjoyed its gilded age during the Ciclo do Ouro , when it was the stage for the Inconfidência Mineira, a separatist movement led by Tiradentes and motivated by the Portuguese crown’s high taxation of gold.

The decline of Ouro Preto’s mines, at the end of the 18 th Century, led much of the population to abandon the city. This migration, on the other hand, led to the preservation of its historical center, the largest example of Baroque architecture in the world. Especially noteworthy are the works of Aleijadinho and Master Ataíde.

Rich in history, culture, education, and entertainment, the town has an intense cultural agenda, organized in partnership with UFOP and some of the most important artistic and cultural events of the country.

Inspiration for poets and artists, for mysterious legends and stories that have persisted generation after generation among its inhabitants, Ouro Preto is an icon survived in Tomás Antônio Gonzaga’s poetry, in Guignard’s canvases and in the imagination of all who have the chance to visit.