Friday, November 28, 2014

[DMANET] [LION 2015] CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS, January 12-15 2015, Lille (France)

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement]
================================================

Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference
LION 9 , Lille, FRANCE, Jan. 12-15, 2015.
http://www.lifl.fr/LION9/

***DEADLINE: December 12th 2014***

================================================

LION 9 conference will take place in Lille (France) from January 12 to
15, 2015. Lille is the biggest city in the north of France at the
crossroads of Europe (with direct TGV to/from London (1h20), Paris CDG
Airport (50mn), Brussels (32 mn)).

==Call for presentations==
We would like to favor discussions on high quality works recently
accepted for journal publication or high ranking conference publication
(within the last 6 months). Therefore, we offer to present such works to
the community during LION9 conference.
Interested people can send an email with an abstract of the work and its
complete reference to lion9@lifl.fr

==Invited speakers==
- David Corne (Heriot-Watt University, UK),
- Alex Freitas (University of Kent, UK),
- Daniel Le Berre (Université de Lens, France)
- Rémi Munos (INRIA, France).

==Tutorials==
- Manuel López-Ibáñez and Thomas Stützle (Université Libre de Bruxelles,
Belgium)
- Sébastien Verel (Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, France).

==Contacts==
lion9@lifl.fr

==Committees==
General Chairs:
- Clarisse Dhaenens, University of Lille 1, France
- Laetitia Jourdan, University of Lille 1, France
- Marie-Eléonore Marmion, University of Lille 1, France

Steering Committee:
- Roberto Battiti (head), University of Trento, Italy
- Holger Hoos, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Youssef Hamadi, Microsoft Research Center, UK
- Mauro Brunato, University of Trento, Italy
- Thomas Stuetzle, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
- Christian Blum, University of the Basque Country, Spain
- Martin Charles Golumbic, University of Haifa, Israel
- Marc Schoenauer, INRIA, France
- Xin Yao, University of Birmingham , UK
- Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois, USA
**********************************************************
*
* Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to
*
* DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de
*
* Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be
* addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The
* original sender, however, is invited to prepare an
* update of the replies received and to communicate it
* via DMANET.
*
* DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET)
* http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/
*
**********************************************************