VNS2017: 5th International Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search School of Mines, Tiradentes Square Ouro Preto, Brazil, October 2-4, 2017 |
Conference website | http://vnsconference.ufop.br |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vns2017 |
Submission deadline | June 18, 2017 |
Scope and Objectives
The 5th International Conference dedicated to Variable Neighborhood Search (IC on VNS) will be held in Ouro Preto (Brazil) October 2-4, 2017. VNS is a metaheuristic based on systematic changes in the neighborhood structure within a search, for solving optimization problems and related tasks. The main goal of the IC on 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. The aim of the 5th IC on VNS is to allow specialists and practitioners on Variable Neighborhood Search to effectively screen papers and participate in lively debates.
Conference Proceedings and Special Issue
- All papers accepted for presentation will be published in a special issue of Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (ENDM) journal. ENDM is indexed by SCOPUS with the following indexes: SNIP: 0.389; SJR: 0.320; CiteScore: 0.350.
- Participants are also allowed to send just an abstract of their presentation. All the abstracts from accepted papers/talks will be published in the book of abstracts.
- Special issues of International International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR, Impact factor: 1.255, ISSN 1475-3995) and Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research (YUJOR, CiteScore: 0.43, SJR: 0.344, SNIP: 0.410, ISSN 0354-0243) will be dedicated to significantly extended and improved versions of the papers presented at the VNS 2017 conference.
Conference Themes
Theory and Methodology
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Applications
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Important Dates
Paper and/or Abstract submission | |
Acceptance notice | |
Early registration ends | |
Submission of papers for the Proceedings ends | |
September 04, 2017 | Preliminary program schedule notice |
October 02 - 04, 2017 | Conference date |
Submission Instructions
Submissions can consist of:
- A short abstract (up to half page). Accepted abstracts will appear in a short book of abstracts (without ISBN).
- A paper of up to eight pages prepared using ENDM LaTeX macro files (which you can download from here ). Accepted papers will appear in a Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics volume and their abstracts will apear in the short abstracts book.
Paper Submission:
The papers must be submitted through the EasyChair platform:
Abstract Submission:
The abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair platform:
In order to include your abstract in the book of abstracts of the conference, it must be carefully checked to avoid any English mistake. Additionally, abstract length must be set to a number of words between 150 and 200. A short acknowledgement is welcome under your abstract if necessary. Finally, we encourage you to carefully review the affiliations and names of the authors.
Commitees
Organizing Committee
Honorary Chairs:
- Pierre Hansen - GERAD, Montréal, Canada
General Chairs:
- Nenad Mladenovic - Mathematical Institute SANU and JUPIM, Serbia
Conference Chairs:
- Haroldo Gambini Santos - UFOP, Brazil
- Vitor Nazário Coelho - UFF, Brazil
Local Commitee Chairs:
- Puca Huachi Vaz Penna - UFOP, Brazil
- Marcone Jamilson Freitas Souza - UFOP, Brazil
- Rafael A.M. Gomes - UFOP, Brazil
Proceedings and Organinzing Chairs:
- Igor Machado Coelho - UERJ, Brazil
- Thays Aparecida de Oliveira - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Local Staff:
- Minghe Hu - UFOP, Brazil
- Marcus Vinicius Silva e Souza - UFOP, Brazil
Program Committee
- Abdulaziz Alkandari - Kuwait Institute, Kuwait
- Alexandre Martins - UFOP, Brazil
- Alysson M. Costa - University of Melbourne, Australia
- Anand Subramanian - UFPB, Brazil
- André Gustavo dos Santos - UFV, Brazil
- Andréa Cynthia Santos - Université de Technologie de Troyes, France
- Angelo Sifaleras - University of Macedonia, Greece
- Belén Melián - University La Laguna, Spain
- Bruno Nazário Coelho - UFOP, Brazil
- Celso C. Ribeiro - UFF, Brazil
- Christian Blum - Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain
- Daniel Aloise - UFRN, Brazil
- Dragan Urošević - Mathematical Institute SANU
- Dragoš Cvetković - Mathematical Institute SANU
- Eduardo G. Pardo - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Emilio Carrizosa - University of Sevilla, Spain
- Felipe M. Müller - UFSM, Brazil
- Frederico Gadelha Guimaraes - UFMG, Brazil
- Geraldo Robson Mateus - UFMG, Brazil
- Gilles Caporossi - HEC Montréal, Canada
- Günther Raidl - TU Wien, Austria
- Gustavo Semaan - UFF, Brazil
- Helena Ramalhinho Lourenço - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
- José A. Moreno-Perez - University of La Laguna, Spain
- Julio Brito - University of La Laguna, Spain
- Luciana Buriol - UFRGS, Brazil
- Lucidio Cabral - UFPB, Brazil
- Luiz Satoru Ochi - UFF, Brazil
- Marcus Ritt - UFRGS, Brazil
- Martin Ravetti - UFMG, Brazil
- Mauricio Resende - Amazon, USA
- Miri Weiss Cohen - Braude College of Engineering, Israel
- Mirjana Čangalović - Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade
- Olinto Araújo - UFSM, Brazil
- Patrick Siarry - University of East Paris Créteil Val de Marne, France
- Pedro Henrique González Silva - CEFET RJ, Brazil
- Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam - University of Tehran, Iran
- Rosiane de Freitas - UFAM/ICOMP, Brazil
- Sebastián Urrutia - UFMG, Brazil
- Sérgio Ricardo de Souza - CEFET MG, Brazil
- Simone Martins - UFF, Brazil
- Tatjana Davidović - Mathematical Institute SANU
- Thibaut Lust - Univ. Pierre Marie Curie, France
- Thibaut Vidal - PUC-RIO, Brazil
- Thomas Stützle - TU Darmstadt, Germany
- Tulio Toffolo - UFOP, Brazil / KU Leuven, Belgium
- Vera Kovačević-Vujčić - Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade
- Yuri Kochetov - Novosibirsk, Russia
Contact
- Email: vnsconference2017@gmail.com