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From: Claudia Cavallaro claudia.cavallaro@unict.it To: Claudia Cavallaro claudia.cavallaro@unict.it Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 06:30:19 +0000 Subject: R: Deadline June 10, 2025 Call4papers WBO International Workshop on Big Optimization HYBRID Message-ID: DB4PR02MB9480A1F562B21D563693FF439C9DA@DB4PR02MB9480.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com

Could you please forward this call for papers (deadline extended to June 10, 2025) to your EURO working group? Sincerely, Claudia Cavallaro -------------- Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ???? International Workshop on Big Optimization (WBO 2025) ???? July 31 – August 1, 2025 ???? Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Italy ???? HYBRID FORMAT (In-person & Online participation) ???? [1]https://www.ants-lab.it/wbo2025/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ????Extended Paper Submission Deadline: June 10, 2025 ???? The Workshop on Big Optimization (WBO 2025) aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to explore the challenges and advancements across disciplines such as computer science, operations research, artificial intelligence, and applied mathematics. WBO 2025 offers a hybrid format for both in-person and online participation. The topics of interest for the event include, but are not limited to, Algorithmic Foundations, Artificial Intelligence in Optimization, Applications of Optimization and Big Data, and Emerging Trends. For further details, please visit the official website: [2]https:// www.ants-lab.it/wbo2025/. ????PLENARY SPEAKERS

• Helena Ramalhinho Lourenço, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Talk: "Optimization Algorithms with Social Impact" • Thomas Stützle, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles Talk: "A few examples of automated design of algorithms"

????IMPORTANT DATES

• Extended Paper submission: June 10, 2025 • Notification of acceptance: June 25, 2025 • Camera-Ready Papers (Pre-Workshop): June 30, 2025 • Early-registration deadline: June 30, 2025 • Workshop Dates: July 31 - August 1, 2025

???? TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS

• Regular Papers (maximum 15 pages): novel and original research contributions. • Short Papers (extended abstract of up to 10 pages): novel research works in progress or with preliminary results. • Oral Presentations: high-quality published or preliminary recent works. These contributions are considered for presentation only and are not included in the proceedings.

???? Accepted regular and short papers will be published as post-proceedings in the Studies in Big Data (SBD) series by Springer SBD Cover [3]https://www.springer.com/series/11970 ???? Selected high-quality papers from the workshop will be invited for submission to one or more post-conference Special Issues in Soft Computing (SCOPUS indexed) [cid] GENERAL CHAIRS Claudia Cavallaro, University of Catania, Italy (claudia.cavallaro <at> unict.it) Carolina Crespi, University of Catania, Italy (carolina.crespi <at> unict.it) Francesco Zito, University of Catania, Italy (francesco.zito <at> unict.it) ???? SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Christian Blum, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Spain Raffaele Cerulli, University of Salerno, Italy Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV, Mexico Vincenzo Cutello, University of Catania, Italy Luca Di Gaspero, University of Udine, Italy Paola Festa, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy Jin-kao Hao, Université d'Angers, France Mario F. Pavone, University of Catania, Italy Mauricio G. C. Resende, Amazon, USA Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy Maria Grazia Speranza, University of Brescia, Italy El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, France Daniele Vigo, University of Bologna, Italy PUBLICITY CHAIR Alessio Mezzina, University of Catania

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Da: Claudia Cavallaro claudia.cavallaro@unict.it Inviato: venerdì 16 maggio 2025 18:34 A: ulrike.leopold@uni-graz.at ulrike.leopold@uni-graz.at; stefan.pickl@unibw.de stefan.pickl@unibw.de; roberto.aringhieri@unito.it roberto.aringhieri@unito.it; gberengu@emp.uc3m.es gberengu@emp.uc3m.es; M.Celik@bath.ac.uk M.Celik@bath.ac.uk; hatice.calik@kuleuven.be hatice.calik@kuleuven.be; s.fugaro@iac.cnr.it s.fugaro@iac.cnr.it; dponce@us.es dponce@us.es; safia.kedad_sidhoum@cnam.fr safia.kedad_sidhoum@cnam.fr; wvandenheuvel@ese.eur.nl wvandenheuvel@ese.eur.nl; placomme@isima.fr placomme@isima.fr; marc.sevaux@univ-ubs.fr marc.sevaux@univ-ubs.fr; andreas.reinholz@gmx.de andreas.reinholz@gmx.de; Kenneth Sörensen kenneth.sorensen@uantwerpen.be; roman.slowinski@cs.put.poznan.pl roman.slowinski@cs.put.poznan.pl; cegist@tecnico.ulisboa.pt cegist@tecnico.ulisboa.pt; milosz.kadzinski@cs.put.poznan.pl milosz.kadzinski@cs.put.poznan.pl; legouveia@ciencias.ulisboa.pt legouveia@ciencias.ulisboa.pt; bernard.fortz@ulb.be bernard.fortz@ulb.be; walid.benameur@telecom-sudparis.eu walid.benameur@telecom-sudparis.eu; ravec@fluirdlab.com ravec@fluirdlab.com; nina@uri.edu nina@uri.edu; Ghdash@uri.edu Ghdash@uri.edu Oggetto: Deadline June 10, 2025 Call4papers WBO International Workshop on Big Optimization HYBRID

We are pleased to inform you that, following several requests, the paper submission deadline has been extended to June 10, 2025. We hope this extension will allow more colleagues to share their research and will further enrich the workshop program.

*********************************************************************************************************************** International Workshop on Big Optimization WBO 2025, July 31 - August 1, 2025, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Catania, Italy. HYBRID

WBO25 offers a hybrid format for both in-person and online participation.

[4]https://www.ants-lab.it/%5B5] [6]wbo2025/ SCOPUS Springer Proceedings********************************************************************

** Extended submission deadline: June 10, 2025 ** ** Proceedings in Studies in Big Data, Springer ** ** Special issue in international journal (SCOPUS indexed) The Workshop on Big Optimization (WBO25) aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to explore the challenges and advancements across disciplines such as computer science, operations research, artificial intelligence, and applied mathematics. The topics of interest for the event include, but are not limited to, Algorithmic Foundations, Artificial Intelligence in Optimization, Applications of Optimization and Big Data, and Emerging Trends. For further details, please visit the official website: [7]https://www.ants-lab.it/%5B8] [9]wbo2025/ . ** PLENARY SPEAKERS Helena Ramalhinho Lourenço, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Thomas Stutzle, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles TBA

** IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: June 10, 2025 Notification of acceptance: June 25, 2025 We accept three types of contributions: Regular Papers (maximum 15 pages): novel and original research contributions. Short Papers (extended abstract of up to 10 pages): novel research works in progress or with preliminary results. Oral Presentations: high-quality published or preliminary recent works. These contributions are considered for presentation only and are not included in the proceedings.

Accepted regular and short papers will be published as post-proceedings in Studies in Big Data (SBD) series by Springer ([10]https://www.springer.com/%5B11] [12]series/11970). More information can be found at [13]https:// www.ants-lab.it/[14] [15]wbo2025/.

Selected top contributions will be invited to publish an extended version in a Special Issue of an international SCOPUS-indexed journal.

** GENERAL CHAIRS: Claudia Cavallaro, University of Catania, Italy (claudia.cavallaro@unict.it) Carolina Crespi, University of Catania, Italy (carolina.crespi@unict.it) Francesco Zito, University of Catania, Italy (francesco.zito@unict.it)

References:

[1] https://www.ants-lab.it/wbo2025/ [2] https://www.ants-lab.it/wbo2025/ [3] https://www.springer.com/series/11970 [4] https://www.ants-lab.it/wbo2025/ [5] https://www.ants-lab.it/wbo2025/ [6] https://www.ants-lab.it/wbo2025/ [7] https://www.ants-lab.it/wbo2025/ [8] https://www.ants-lab.it/wbo2025/ [9] https://www.ants-lab.it/wbo2025/ [10] https://www.springer.com/series/11970 [11] https://www.springer.com/series/11970 [12] https://www.springer.com/series/11970 [13] https://www.ants-lab.it/wbo2025/ [14] https://www.ants-lab.it/wbo2025/ [15] https://www.ants-lab.it/wbo2025/

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