Important Date

Submission: extended to Feb 28th, 2015
Notification of acceptance: March 20th, 2015
Camera-ready papers: April 10th 2015
Early registration: April 10th 2015
Conference: June 7-10th 2015

Special sessions/tracks/Workshop

  1. Workshop Multi/Many-core computing for parallel Metaheuristics(McM'2015) organized by N. Melab (Univ. Lille, France, e-mail:Nouredine.Melab@lifl.fr), M. Mezmaz (Univ. Mons, Belgium, e-mail: mohand.mezmaz@gmail.com)

  2. Track Metaheuristics for production systems organized by Prof. F.Yalaoui (University of Technology of Troyes, France, email: farouk.yalaoui@utt.fr and Lionel Amodeo (University of Technology of Troyes, France, email: lionel.amodeo@utt.fr)

  3. Metaheuristics for dynamic optimization organized by Prof. P. Siarry (UPEC, France, e-mail: siarry@univ-paris12.fr), A. Nakib (UPEC, France, e-mail: nakib@u-pec.fr)

  4. Metaheuristics for power and energy systems organized by J-Y. Lucas (EDF, France, e-mail: jean-yves.lucas@edf.fr)

  5. Metaheuristics for scheduling under complex constraints and uncertainty organized by Inés González-Rodríguez, Camino R. Vela, Ramiro Varela (Univ. Oviedo, Spain, e-mail: ines.gonzalez@unican.es, crvela@uniovi.es, ramiro@uniovi.es)

  6. Nature-inspired algorithms for combinatorial optimization organized by Aziz Ouaarab, Belaïd Ahiod (Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco, email: aziz.ouaarab@gmail.com and ahiod@fsr.ac.ma) Xin-She Yang (Middlesex University London, United Kingdom, email: x.yang@mdx.ac.uk)

  7. Metaheuristics for smart cities organized by Bernabé Dorronsoro (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, email: bernabe.dorronsoro@uni.lu), Sergio Nesmachnow (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay,e-mail: nesmachnow@gmail.com), Jamal Toutouh (University of Malaga, Spain, email: jamal@lcc.uma.es)

  8. Metaheuristics for signal and image processing organized by Amir Nakib (UPEC, France, email: nakib@u-pec.fr), Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed (University of Valenciennes, France, e-mail: abdelmalik.taleb-ahmed@univ-valenciennes.fr>)

  9. SimHeuristics (Simulation+Heuristics) organized by Helena Ramalhinho Lourenço (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, e-mail: helena.ramalhinho@upf.edu), Angel Juan (Open University of Catalonia, Spain, e-mail: angel.alejandro.juan@gmail.com)

  10. Metaheuristic and optimization in data science and big data organized by Rachid Chelouah (EISTI, Cergy-Pontoise, France, e-mail: rc@eisti.eu), Serge Krywyk (Business & Decision, France, e-mail: serge.krywyk@businessdecision.com)

  11. Metaheuristic for bioinformatics organized by Sune S. Nielsen (University of Luxembourg, email: sune.nielsen@uni.lu), Grégoire Danoy (University of Luxembourg, email: gregoire.danoy@uni.lu)

  12. Models and metaheuristic algorithms for routing and loading problems organized by Prof. Paolo Toth (University of Bologna, Italy, email: paolo.toth@unibo.it)

  13. Metaheuristics for biomedical engineering organized by Prof. Patrick Siarry (UPEC, France, e-mail: siarry@u-pec.fr), Hamouche OULHADJ (UPEC, France, e-mail: oulhadj@u-pec.fr), acer BENAICHOUCHE (UPEC, France, e-mail: benaichouche.nacer@gmail.com)

  14. Recent advances in optimized search heuristics by matheuristics organized by Dr. Abdelkader Sbihi (EMN, France, e-mail: a.sbihi@em-normandie.fr)

  15. Optimization under uncertainty in mechanics organized by Prof. Abdelkhalak El-Hami (INSA Rouen, e-mail:Abdelkhalak.elhami@insa-rouen.fr), Prof. Bouchaib Radi (Univ. Settat, Morocco, e-mail:bouchaib.radi@yahoo.fr