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2nd Announcement
2nd Mini EURO Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search MEC-VNS 2012
4-7 October 2012. Herceg Novi, Montenegro.
http://www.mi.sanu.ac.rs/~vnsconference2012
Organization
* Honorary Chair of the Conference: Pierre Hansen, GERAD and HEC Montreal,
Canada.
* Conference Chairs: Nenad Mladenovic, Brunel, UK and JUPIM, Serbia; José
A. Moreno Pérez, University of La Laguna, Spain.
* Program Committee Chairs: Emilio Carrizosa, University of Seville,
Spain; Belén Melián Batista, University of La Laguna, Spain
* Organizing Committee Chair: Dragan Urosevic, Mathematical Institute
SASA, Beograd
* Secretary: Sanja Roksandic, Mathematical Institute, SASA, Beograd
Scope and Objectives The 2nd Mini EURO Conference dedicated to Variable
Neighborhood Search (MEC-VNS) will be held in Herceg Novi (Montenegro)
October 4-7, 2012. The Mini EURO Conferences (MEC) constitute one of the
instruments provided by EURO (the Association of European Operational
Research societies) to promote the research in its field of interest.
Each MEC is an specialized conference focusing a particular promising OR
theme of research. These events are organized to allow specialists and
practitioners of the selected topic of research to effectively screen
papers participate in lively debates.VNS is a metaheuristic based on
systematic changes in the neighbour-rhood structure within a search, for
solving optimization problems and related tasks. The main goal of the 2nd
MEC-VNS is to provide a stimulating environment in which researchers
coming from various scientific fields can share and discuss their
knowledge, expertise and ideas related to the VNS Metaheuristic and its
applications.
Submissions The submission of papers ends on June 12, 2012. The accepted
papers will be edited in conference proceedings in CD-ROM with its
corresponding ISBN. A booklet with extended abstracts (4 pages) will also
be provided to the participants. The official language of the conference
is English.
Publication In agreement with the Editors of the Journal of Global
Optimization (JOGO) and the Editors of IMA Journal of Management
Mathematics (IMA-MAN) and the Editors of Yugoslav Journal of Operations
Research (YUJOR), authors present at MEC VNS 2011 will be invited to
submit full versions of their papers to be published on a Special Issues
of JOGO or IMA-MAN or YUJOR on the theme of the conference. Organizers
are trying to get one more special issue of the journal from the SCI
list. Note that for the 1st MEC-VNS, three special issues with papers
presented at the conference were published (EJOR, JOH and IMA-MAN).
Plenary speakers.
Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida, USA.
Richard F. Hartl, University of Vienna, Austria. Celso C.
Ribeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil.
Venue The conference will be held at the Pla.a hotel in Herceg Novi,
Montenegro. Tivat (20km away) and Dubrovnik (25km away) are two
international airports connecting Herceg Novi with worldwide cities by air
traffic. From Dubrovnik and Tivat airports, Herceg Novi is easily
access-ible by taxi cab and by regular buses.
Registration fee Normal Student
Before August 1, 2012 280 EUR. 100 EUR.
After August 1, 2012 330 EUR. 150 EUR.
with the notice for the authors who wish their papers to be published in
the Proceedings, the payment deadline is August 25, 2012.
The registration fee includes conference Proceedings, extended abstract
booklet and documentation, lunches, coffee breaks and social program (gala
dinner and excursion to Dubrovnik). To qualify as a student, the delegate
must present a student card. Support from EURO may be granted to seven
delegates from Eastern European countries and support from SEIO may be
granted to some of its Ph.D. students. The PhD students of the Faculty of
Organizational sciences (FOS), University of Belgrade will have free
access to the conference and will receive the documentation.
Important dates
May 01, 2012 Participant registration
June 12, 2012 Paper submission
July 03, 2012 Acceptance notice
September 04, 2012 Preliminary program schedule notice
October 04 - 07, 2012 Conference
Program Committee
Chairs: Emilio Carrizosa, Belén Melián Batista
Secretary: Raca Todosijevic
Members:
Aloise, Daniel, GERAD, Montreal, Canada.
Alvarez, Ada, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México.
Beasley John, Brunel, United Kingdom.
Braysy, Olli, SINTEF Oslo, Norway.
Brimberg, Jack, Royal Military College, Kingston, Canada.
Caporossi, Gilles, HEC Montreal, Canada.
Carrizosa, Emilio, University of Sevilla, Spain.
Crainic, Teodor G., University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada.
Cvetkovic, Dragos, Mathematical institute SASA, Serbia.
Doerner, Karl, Institute of Management Science, Vienna, Austria.
Duarte, Abraham, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain.
Eremeev, Anton, Omsk State University, Russia.
Escudero, Laureano, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Spain.
Gendreau, Michel, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada.
Gonzales-Velarde, Jose Luis, Centro de Manufactura y Calidad, Tecnológico
de Monterrey, México.
Hanafi, Saďd, University of Valenciennes, France.
Hansen, Pierre, GERAD, Montreal, Canada.
Hartl, Richard, Institute of Management Science, Vienna, Austria.
Kochetov, Yuri, Novosibirsk, Russia.
Kovacevic-Vujcic, Vera, University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Labbé, Martine, Free university of Brussels, Belgium.
Liberti, Leo, LIX Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France.
Melián Batista, Belén, University La Laguna, Spain.
Moreno-Perez José A., University of La Laguna, Spain.
Moreno, Vega Marcos J, University La Laguna, Spain.
Pacheco, Joaquín Antonio, University of Burgos, Spain.
Pérez-Brito, Dionisio, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain.
Puerto, Justo, University of Seville, Spain.
Raidl, Güinter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
Ribeiro, Celso, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Salhi, Said, University of Kent, United Kingdom.
Sevaux, Marc, University of Southern Brittany, France.
Sörensen, Kenneth, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Stützle, Thomas, TU Darmstadt, Germany.
Urosevic, Dragan, Mathematical Institute SASA, Belgrade, Serbia.
Zhao, Qiuhong, Bejing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China.
Organizing Committee:
Chair: Dragan Urosevic, Mathematical Institute SASA (MI-SASA);
Co-chair: José A. Moreno Pérez, University La Laguna, Spain.
Secretary: Gordana Nastic, Mathematical Institute SASA.
Members: I Grujicic, FOS, University of Belgrade;
S Roksandic, M Milinkovic, R Todosijevic - Mathematical Institute SASA,
Belgrade,
N Mladenovic, JUPIM, Belgrade,
J Moreno Perez, J. Marcos Moreno Vega, J Brito Santana, University of La
Laguna.
Contact: Dragan Urosevic. MEC-VNS 2012
Mathematical Institute SASA.
Kneza Mihaila 36
11001 Beograd, p.p. 367
Serbia
vnsconference2012(a)mi.sanu.ac.rs
Web page: http://www.mi.sanu.ac.rs/~vnsconference2012
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