On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we invite you to participate in 
the special session (workshop) on "METAHEURISTICS FOR OPTIMIZATION 
PROBLEMS" at the
7th Conference on Numerical Methods and Applications NM&A'10,
to be held 20-24 August 2010 in  Borovets, Bulgaria.
The session is organized by:
Assoc. Prof. Stefka Fidanova (stefka@parallel.bas.bg)
from the Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of 
Sciences and
Assoc. Prof. Antonio Nebro (antonio@lcc.uma.es)
from University of Malaga, Spain.
Proceedings
We plan to continue publishing the proceedings of only refereed and 
presented papers as a special volume of Springer Lecture Notes in 
Computer Science (LNCS).
Important deadlines
    Deadline for submission of abstracts
    February 15, 2010
    Notification of acceptance of the talks on the basis of the 
submitted abstract
    March 1, 2010
    Deadline for submission of full papers
    April 30, 2010
    Notification of acceptance of full papers
    June 20, 2010
    Submission of accommodation forms
    July 15, 2010
Abstracts and contributed papers
The abstracts (up to 1 page stating clearly the originality of the 
results) are to be written in standard LaTeX. The length of the 
contributed papers is limited up to 8 pages. It is assumed that one 
participant will present not more than one talk.
Send the abstracts and papers to special session organizers and 
conference organizers, indicating the name of the special session. After 
sending the abstract go to the conference web page and fill in the 
registration form (personal data of the participants, minimum one per 
paper, and the name of the special session).
Information about abstract and paper preparation, accommodation, 
transportation, registration form and conference location you can find 
at the conference web page :
http://www.math.bas.bg/~nummeth/nma10
Special session organizers
Assoc. Prof. S. Fidanova, Institute of Parallel Processing, Bulgarian 
Academy of
Science, stefka@parallel.bas.bg
Assoc. Prof. A. Nebro,  University of Malaga, Spain, e-mal: 
antonio@lcc.uma.es
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