Thanks,
Emilio Carrizosa
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SPECIAL ISSUE ON VARIABLE NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH
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JOURNAL OF GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION
2011 Impact Factor 1.196
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Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) is a metaheuristic which has shown
to be very successful for solving hard combinatorial and global
optimization problems.
During the EURO Mini-Conference on VNS took place in Herceg Novi,
Montenegro, October 4th-7th 2012, researchers all around the world
presented their most recent findings on VNS, either from a
methodological viewpoint or as applications to real world problems.
Authors of papers presented at the EURO Mini-Conference on VNS are
especially encouraged to submit their work to this special issue in the
Journal of Global Optimization. However, the issue is open to all
researchers who can contribute to a better knowledge of VNS. Potential
topics include, but are not limited to:
Theory and Methodology:
* Theoretical or empirical analysis of VNS
* New variants of deterministic and stochastic VNS
* Continuous global VNS
* Mat-heuristics and VNS
* Formulation space VNS
* Multi-objective VNS
* Parallel VNS
* VNS hybrids
Applications:
* Mixed integer programming
* Graphs, communication networks
* Clustering, data mining, location
* Inventory, routing, supply chains
* Packing and covering
* Discovery sciences
* Other real world problems
Before submission authors should carefully read over the journals
Author Guidelines. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy
of their complete manuscript through the journal's editorial manager
http://jogo.edmgr.com/ and specifying that their paper is for the
special issue "SI: VNS 2012". Manuscript deadline: 31st December 2012.
GUEST EDITORS
Emilio Carrizosa, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, ecarrizosa@us.es
Pierre Hansen, GERAD and École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Canada,
pierre.hansen@gerad.ca
José A. Moreno, Universidad de la Laguna, Spain, jamoreno@ull.es
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