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The 24th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies
12-17 July 2026, Vienna, Austria
Metaheuristics Area
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We are organising the Metaheuristics area for the 24th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS 2026) in Vienna, Austria, https://ifors2026.at/home. IFORS is a 60-year-old organisation in operational research, currently composed of 50 national societies. Its origins date back to 1955, and its first event was held in 1957. This year, the conference will take place in Vienna, which is one of the leading meeting (and research) destinations in the world. The University of Vienna will be the main organiser, which is located in the centre of Vienna where the conference will be held.
The Metaheuristics area is one of the areas in operational research which are presented in IFORS and it will comprise everything related to its topic, which includes, among others, the
* applications in bioinformatics, scheduling and timetabling, vehicle routing, strip packing, etc.
* metaheuristics methods such as tabu search, simulated annealing, iterated local search, evolutionary algorithms, particle swarm optimisation, ant colony optimisation, etc.
* hybrid approaches that use machine learning, surrogate-assisted techniques, etc.
* in-depth experimental analysis of metaheuristics
* automated algorithm configuration, design and automated algorithm selection
* large language models for metaheuristics
* multi-objective, time-varying and stochastic problems for metaheuristics
* matheuristics
* theoretical analysis of metaheuristics and their impact on algorithm design.
* .. and a variety of other topics in metaheuristics.
Abstract can be submitted (i) either to the Metaheuristics area or, if suitable, (ii) to any of the special sessions with the associated code:
* Metaheuristics for bioinformatics, Chairs Laetitia Jourdan and Julie Jacques, Code 4eb36aba
* Metaheuristics for Scheduling and Timetabling, Chair Sara Ceschia and Roberto Maria Rosati, Code 25aeaf18
* Large language models in Metaheuristics Research, Chairs Christian Blum and Luca di Gaspero, Code 52f7f52f
* Automated algorithm configuration and selection, Chair Leslie Pérez Cáceres, Code 7ca74e41
* Metaheuristics and experiments, Chair Thomas Stützle, Code af94cbe8
* Metaheuristics and applications, Chair Nysret Musliu, Code 87abcead
* Matheuristics, Chair Vittorio Maniezzo and Guenther Raidl, Code 55018c8a
**** Submission Details ****
Abstract must be submitted via the conference website https://www.euro-online.org/conf/ifors2026. Each abstract is limited to 600 characters (excluding formulas and mathematical notation).
The main authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present their paper at the conference.
Important Dates:
15 March 2026: Deadline for abstract submissions
25 April 2026: Early bird registration deadline
1 May 2026: Final registration deadline for authors
12-17 July 2026: Conference Date
Metaheuristics organisers
Prof. Thomas Stuetzle, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Prof. Sara Ceschia, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
Prof. Leslie Pérez Cáceres Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
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