LION 12: 12th Conference on Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Hotel Elite Kalamata, Greece, June 10-15, 2018 |
Conference website | http://www.caopt.com/LION12/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lion12 |
Submission deadline | January 15, 2018 |
Author notification | February 15, 2018 |
Camera-ready for pre-proceedings | February 25, 2018 |
The large variety of heuristic algorithms for hard optimization problems raises numerous interesting and challenging issues. Practitioners are confronted with the burden of selecting the most appropriate method, in many cases through an expensive algorithm configuration and parameter tuning process, and subject to a steep learning curve. Scientists seek theoretical insights and demand a sound experimental methodology for evaluating algorithms and assessing strengths and weaknesses. A necessary prerequisite for this effort is a clear separation between the algorithm and the experimenter, who, in too many cases, is "in the loop" as a crucial intelligent learning component. Both issues are related to designing and engineering ways of "learning" about the performance of different techniques, and ways of using past experience about the algorithm behavior to improve performance in the future. Intelligent learning schemes for mining the knowledge obtained from different runs or during a single run can improve the algorithm development and design process and simplify the applications of high-performance optimization methods. Combinations of algorithms can further improve the robustness and performance of the individual components provided that sufficient knowledge of the relationship between problem instance characteristics and algorithm performance is obtained.
This meeting, which continues the successful series of LION events, is aimed at exploring the intersections and uncharted territories between machine learning, artificial intelligence, mathematical programming and algorithms for hard optimization problems. The main purpose of the event is to bring together experts from these areas to discuss new ideas and methods, challenges and opportunities in various application areas, general trends and specific developments. We are excited to be bringing the LION conference in Greece for the first time.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Long paper: original novel and unpublished work (max. 15 pages in LNCS format);
- Short paper: an extended abstract of novel work (max. 4 pages in LNCS format);
- Work for oral presentation only (no page restriction; any format). For example, work already published elsewhere, which is relevant and which may solicit fruitful discussion at the conference.
List of Topics
Heuristic algorithms for optimization
- Machine learning
- Algorithm configuration and parameter tuning
Committees
General Chairs
- Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, United States
- Ilias Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Local Organizing committee Chair
- Dimitris Souravlias, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany
Technical Program Committee Chairs
- Roberto Battiti, Università degli Studi di Trento, Director of the LION lab (machine Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN) for prescriptive analytics
- Mauro Brunato, Università degli Studi di Trento, machine Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION) research
- Ilias Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
- Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, United States
Technical Program Committee
- Yaroslav Sergeyev University of Calabria
- Horst Samulowitz IBM
- Meinolf Sellmann GE Research
- Andre Augusto Cire University of Toronto Scarborough
- Helena Ramalhinho Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Paola Festa University of Napoli FEDERICO II
- Tias Guns Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
- Thomas Stützle Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
- Marc Schoenauer Projet TAO, INRIA Saclay Île-de-France
- Lars Kotthoff University of British Columbia
- Martin Golumbic University of Haifa
- Roberto Battiti Universita' di Trento
- Luca Di Gaspero DPIA - University of Udine
- Bernd Bischl LMU Munich
- Andre de Carvalho University of São Paulo
- Dario Landa-Silva The University of Nottingham
- Mauro Brunato University of Trento
- Youssef Hamadi LIX
- Francesca Rossi IBM
- Frank Hutter University of Freiburg
- George Katsirelos MIAT, INRA
- John Chinneck Carleton University, Ottawa
- Barry O'Sullivan University College Cork, Ireland
- Marie-Eleonore Marmion Université de Lille, Laboratoire CRIStAL
- Mikhail Posypkin Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS
- Michael Khachay Krasovsky Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics
- Tatiana Tchemisova University of Aveiro
- Silvano Martello University of Bologna
- Oleg Prokopyev University of Pittsburgh
- Oleg Khamisov Melentiev Institute of Energy Systems
- Yury Kochetov Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
- Nenad Mladenovic Mathematical Institute SANU
- Martin Josef Geiger, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg (Germany)
- Renato De Leone Università di Camerino
- Antanas Zilinskas Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius University, Lithuania
- Adil Erzin Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
- Valeria Ruggiero Uiversità di Ferrara
- Giovanni Fasano University Ca'Foscari of Venice
- Jun Pei, Hefei University of Technology, (China)
- Hoai An Le Thi LITA EA 3097 UFR MIM Université de Lorraine
- Michael Trick Carnegie Mellon University
- Eric D. Taillard Univ. Appl. Sci. Western Switzerland, HEIG-Vd
- Bistra Dilkina Georgia Institute of Technology
- Christian Blum Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
- Carlos Soares University of Porto
- David Gao Federation University Australia
- Alexander Strekalovskiy Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics & Control Theory SB RAS
- Luca Zanni University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
- Anatoly Zhigljavsky School of Mathematics, Cardiff University
- Panos Pardalos University of Florida
- Petr Vilím IBM Czech
- Thomas Pock Graz University of Technology
- Sonia Cafieri Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile
- Julius Žilinskas Vilnius University
- Daniele Vigo D.E.I. - Universita' di Bologna
- Evgeni Nurminski FEFU
- Gerardo Toraldo Università di Napoli Federico II
- Vladimir Grishagin Nizhni Novgorod State University
- Massimo Roma Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale - SAPIENZA Universita' di Roma
- Kaisa Miettinen University of Jyväskylä
- Daniela Lera University of Cagliari
- Remigijus Paulavicius Imperial College London
- Vasily N. Malozemov Saint Petersburg University
- Dmitri Kvasov DIMES, University of Calabria
- Antonio Fuduli Universita' della Calabria - Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
- Annabella Astorino ICAR-CNR
Invited Speakers (to be completed)
- Lefteris Kirousis, Department of Mathematics, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
- George Michailidis, Professor and Director of the Informatics Institute, University of Florida, United States
Special sessions
- How machine learning is revolutionising healthcare
- Kostas Chrisagis, City University London, United Kingdom
- Serafeim Moustakidis, Center for Research and Technology Hellas
- Computational Intelligence for Smart Cities
- Enrique Alba, University of Malaga, Spain
- Konstantinos Parsopoulos, University of Ioannina, Greece
- On the borderline between Data Analysis and Combinatorial Optimisation: models, algorithms, and bounds
- Alexander Kelmanov, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Michael Khachay, Krasovsky Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Ekaterinburg, Russia
- Optimization and Management in Smart Manufacturing
- Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
- Xinbao Liu, School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, China
- Jun Pei, School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, China
Publication
LION 12 proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer; selected articles will appear in Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence.
Venue
The conference will take place at the Hotel Elite in Kalamata, Greece, which is offering special discounts for all LION12 participants. On top of being the conference venue, the Hotel Elite is also the venue of the conference gala dinner. We strongly recommend that LION12 participants book their rooms early.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to mauro.brunato@unitn.it
Sponsors
- Microsoft Research
- University of Florida