[DMANET] matheuristics@OR2021

*** OR2021 SPECIAL SESSION ON MATHEURISTICS (code 2ec0ac5d) - CALL FOR
CONTRIBUTIONS ***

Dear colleagues,
we are pleased to invite you to submit an abstract for presentation in
the special session on matheuristics to be held during the OR2021
(International Conference on Operations Research, August 31 - September
3, 2021 | Online, https://www.or2021.unibe.ch/).
OR2021 important dates:
https://www.or2021.unibe.ch/general_information/abstract_submission/index_eng.html

*** AIMS AND SCOPE:

Matheuristics ([1][2]) are optimization algorithms made by the
interoperation of metaheuristics and mathematical programming (MP)
techniques.
Submission can relate to
- exploiting mathematical programming techniques in a (meta)heuristic
framework
or
- granting to mathematical programming approaches the cross-problem
robustness and constrained-CPU-time effectiveness which characterize
metaheuristics.

The session aims at collecting contributions that define the state of
the art for the computational effectiveness and efficiency or the
theoretical properties of matheuristics.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Model-based metaheuristics,
- Algorithms hybridizing (meta)heuristics and exact methods,
- MIP techniques used for defining heuristic solvers (such as local
branching and RINS),
- Problem relaxations to guide (heuristic) search,
- Decompositions and lower/upper bounds exploited in metaheuristics,
- Stochastic programming and heuristic search,
- Matheuristics for stochastic problems,
- Design and configuration of matheuristic algorithms,
- Experimental analysis and modeling of algorithms,
- Real world success histories of matheuristic applications, and
- Automatic configuration of matheuristics and algorithm selection

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matheuristics
[2] https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030702762


*** SUBMISSION PROCESS:
Abstract submission system: https://www.euro-online.org/conf/or2021
Abstract submission guidelines:
https://www.or2021.unibe.ch/general_information/abstract_submission/index_eng.html

*** SUBMISSION CODE to submit an abstract in this special session: 2ec0ac5d

Please, feel free to forward this announcement to any colleagues who may
be interested.

Vittorio Maniezzo, University of Bologna

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