Tuesday, December 3, 2024

[DMANET] [CFP] The LION 19 Conference, June 15–19, 2025, Prague, Czech Republic

*The 19th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference*

*(LION 19)*

*June 15–19, 2025, Prague, Czech Republic*

*Website: *https://lion19.org/

*Conference venue:* The LION 19 will be held in the Department of Applied
Mathematics at Charles University. The department is located in a
historical building on Malá Strana in the heart of Prague. It is close to
many tourist attractions: It is right next to the St. Nicholas Church and
on the main tourist road from Prague Castle, across Charles Bridge to Old
Town Hall with an Astronomical Clock.

*Topics of Interest.* Topics related to operations research, learning, and
intelligent optimization, including but not limited to:

- Machine learning
- Operations research
- OR for ML and AI
- ML and AI for OR
- Deep learning
- Evolutionary algorithms
- Swarm intelligence
- Reinforcement learning
- Optimization techniques
- Data mining and analytics
- Data science and big data
- Quantum machine learning
- Quantum optimization
- Parallel methods for optimization, OR, ML and AI
- Large-scale problems
- Robust optimization and its applications
- Applications of these topics in robotics, economics, energy,
environmental sciences, healthcare, management, and other real-world areas.
- We encourage submissions of surveys and future-oriented papers.

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*Important Dates*

- *Submission opens:* October 1, 2024.
- *Submission deadline:* January 31, 2025.
- *Author notification:* March 10, 2025.
- *Registration opens:* March 11, 2025.
- *Early registration deadline:* April 20, 2025.
- *Late registration deadline:* May 20, 2025.
- *Camera-ready papers:* TBA.
- *Conference in Prague, Czech Republic:* June 15–19, 2025.

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*Publications*
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All accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture
Notes in Computer Science <http://www.springer.com/lncs> (LNCS).

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*Plenary Speakers*
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· Jakub Marecek (Tenured faculty member at Czech Technical
University, Czech Republic)

Title: "Fairness in repeated uses of AI systems"

· Maximilian Schiffer (Professor for Business Analytics & Intelligent
Systems, Technical University of Munich, Germany)

Title: "Optimization-augmented machine learning pipelines"

· Carola Doerr (CNRS research director (DR) at Sorbonne University,
Paris, France)

Title: " Automated selection of black-box optimization algorithms"

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