Special issue on “Metaheuristics”

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/itor.12754
• Date: 01 May 2020
• Published date: 01 May 2020

Intl. Trans. in Op. Res. 27 (2020) 1810–1811

DOI: 10.1111/itor.12754

INTERNATIONAL

TRANSACTIONS

IN OPERATIONAL

RESEARCH

Call for Papers

Special issue on “Metaheuristics”

Guest Editors

Andr´

es L. Medagliaa, Jorge E. Mendozab, Celso Ribeiroc,Rub

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en Ruizdand

Juan G. Villegase

aUniversidad de los Andes, Colombia

bHEC Montr´

eal, Canada

cUniversidade FederalFluminense, Brazil

dUniversitat Polit`

ecnica de Val`

encia, Spain

eUniversidad de Antioquia, Colombia

The Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC) series was established in 1995 and the one in

Cartagena (Colombia) in 2019 is its thirteenth edition. MIC is the main event focused on progress

in the area of metaheuristics and their applications. This special issue of International Transactions in

Operational Research(ITOR) will be dedicated primarily to extended versions of papers presented at

the 13th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2019) (https://mic2019.uniandes.edu.co/).

However, submissions will also be open to the entire metaheuristics community of academicians

and practitioners.

Papers covering all aspects of metaheuristic research and applications are welcome, including

(but not limited to):

rNew algorithmic developments and hybrid metaheuristics.

rIndustrial applications, and challenging new problems arising in the fields of big data, machine

learning, analytics, bioinformatics, transportation and logistics, just to cite a few.

rNew research challenges,theoretical developments, implementation issues, in-depth experimental

studies.

rThe interface of metaheuristics with other disciplines, such as agent-based models, integer pro-

gramming (matheuristics), constraint programming, and machine learning, among others.

An important note concerns submissions on metaphor-inspired metaheuristics. Although the past

has shown that naturecan be a rich source of inspiration for algorithms in optimization and control,

recent years havewitnessed the abuse of drawing inspiration fromnatural phenomena or man-made

processes. We require that algorithms (other than well-established ones such as evolutionary algo-

rithms) must be described in metaphor-free language. This facilitates their conceptual comparison

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