Dear colleagues,

I would appreciate if you could distribute this announcement through your mail list.

Best,

Emilio Carrizosa

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SPECIAL ISSUE ON VARIABLE NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH

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JOURNAL OF GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION

www.springer.com/10898

2011 Impact Factor 1.196

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Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) is a metaheuristic which has shown to

be very successful for solving hard combinatorial and global optimization

problems.

During the EURO Mini-Conference on VNS took place in Herceg Novi,

Montenegro, October 4th-7th 2012, researchers all around the world

presented their most recent findings on VNS, either from a methodological

viewpoint or as applications to real world problems.

Authors of papers presented at the EURO Mini-Conference on VNS are

especially encouraged to submit their work to this special issue in the Journal of Global Optimization. However, the issue is open to all researchers who can contribute to a better

knowledge of VNS. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

Theory and Methodology:

* Theoretical or empirical analysis of VNS

* New variants of deterministic and stochastic VNS

* Continuous global VNS

* Mat-heuristics and VNS

* Formulation space VNS

* Multi-objective VNS

* Parallel VNS

* VNS hybrids

Applications:

* Mixed integer programming

* Graphs, communication networks

* Clustering, data mining, location

* Inventory, routing, supply chains

* Packing and covering

* Discovery sciences

* Other real world problems

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journals Author

Guidelines. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their

complete manuscript through the journal's editorial manager

http://jogo.edmgr.com/ and specifying that their paper is for the special

issue "SI: VNS 2012". Manuscript deadline: 31st December 2012.

GUEST EDITORS

Emilio Carrizosa, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, ecarrizosa@us.es

Pierre Hansen, GERAD and École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Canada,

pierre.hansen@gerad.ca

José A. Moreno, Universidad de la Laguna, Spain, jamoreno@ull.es