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<td>[Alio] 2nd CFP: Metaheuristics International Conference
(MIC) 2019 - Cartagena - Colombia / >>>Deadline:
Jan. 15, 2019<<< / Conference: July 28, 2019</td>
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<td>Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:22:39 -0500</td>
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<td>JUAN GUILLERMO VILLEGAS RAMIREZ
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:juan.villegas@udea.edu.co"><juan.villegas@udea.edu.co></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:alio@dc.uba.ar">alio@dc.uba.ar</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:modern-heuristics@jiscmail.ac.uk">modern-heuristics@jiscmail.ac.uk</a></td>
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CALL FOR PAPERS</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">13th
Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC)</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">July
28 – 31, 2019 - Cartagena de Indias (Colombia)</span></p>
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de los Andes (Sede Caribe)</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Key
Dates and Deadlines for Contributed and Invited Papers</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission
deadline: January 15, 2019</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Notification
of acceptance: March 18, 2019</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Camera-ready
papers: April 30, 2019</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Early
registration due date: April 30,2019</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What
is MIC?</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MIC
is the main event focusing on the progress of the area
of metaheuristics and their applications. MIC provides
an opportunity to the international research community
in metaheuristics to discuss recent research results, to
develop new ideas and collaborations, and to meet old
and make new friends in a friendly and relaxed
atmosphere. MIC has a long tradition in the
metaheuristics community that dates back to the first
MIC held in Breckenridge, Colorado (USA, 1995). Since
then, MIC has been held in Sophia-Antipolis (France,
1997), Angra dos Reis (Brazil, 1999), Porto (Portugal,
2001), Kyoto (Japan, 2003), Vienna (Austria, 2005),
Montréal (Canada, 2007), Hamburg (Germany, 2009), Udine
(Italy, 2011), Singapur (Singapur, 2013), Agadir
(Morocco, 2015), and Barcelona (Spain, 2017).</span></p>
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</span><span
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MIC
welcomes presentations covering all aspects of
metaheuristic research in five broad topics: 1) </span><span
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">;
2) </span><span
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and theoretical research</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">;
3) </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">novel
industrial applications</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">;
4) </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">interfaces
of metaheuristics</span><span
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and 5) </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">challenging
new problems</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.
</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(31,56,100);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1)
Techniques. </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This
category includes research on algorithmic frameworks
such as tabu search, simulated annealing, iterated local
search, variable neighborhood search, bio-inspired
algorithms, memory-based optimization, evolutionary
algorithms, memetic algorithms, ant colony optimization,
particle swarm optimization, scatter search, path
relinking, hybrid metaheuristics, simheuristics, and
matheuristics, among others. Equally welcome is research
that enhances the usability and increases the potential
of metaheuristic algorithms such as parallelization of
algorithms, reactive search mechanisms for self-tuning,
offline metaheuristic algorithm configuration
techniques, algorithm portfolios, among others.</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(31,56,100);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2)
Empirical and Theoretical Research. </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This
category welcomes research on large-scale experimental
analyses, algorithm comparisons, new experimental
methodologies, engineering methodologies for stochastic
local search algorithms, search space analysis,
theoretical insights into properties of metaheuristic
algorithms, among other provoking ideas.</span></p>
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</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(31,56,100);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">3)
Industrial Applications. </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We
welcome novel and real applications with strong impact
in fields such as transportation, healthcare,
bioinformatics, energy systems, analytics, big data,
data mining, planning and scheduling, production and
operations management, finance and economics, marketing,
telecommunications, logistics and supply chain,
agriculture, among other fields. </span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(31,56,100);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">4)
Interface of Metaheuristics. </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Metaheuristics
have proven useful at the interface with other
disciplines, such as agent-based models, integer
programming (matheuristics), constraint programming,
machine learning, and deep learning, among other
domains.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(31,56,100);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">5)
Challenging New Problems. </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">New
problems continuously evolve and we are looking for
their connections with metaheuristics. For instance, new
problems are rising in the fields of big data, machine
learning, analytics, and transportation and logistics,
just to cite a few. </span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Plenary
talks</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(31,56,100);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Michel
Gendreau</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
(Polytechnique Montréal - CIRRELT)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fifteen
years of the </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Handbook
of Metaheuristics</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">:
A retrospective</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(31,56,100);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Andrea
Lodi </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Polytechnique
Montréal – CIRRELT)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">TBA</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(31,56,100);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thomas
Stützle </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Université
libre de Bruxelles - IRIDIA)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Automated
Design of Metaheuristic Algorithms: Methods,
Applications and Perspectives</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tutorials</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(31,56,100);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Luciana
Buriol </span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Metaheuristics
in Structural Bioinformatics.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
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Fernando Oliveira </span><span
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do Porto)</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Metaheuristics
for Irregular Packing Problems: a review</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(31,56,100);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Christian
Prins</span><span
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(Université de Technologie de Troyes)</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Metaheuristics
for vehicle routing</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper
Submissions</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Authors
are encouraged to submit unpublished and outstanding
original contributions in one of the above topics (1)
Techniques, (2) Empirical and Theoretical Research, (3)
Industrial Applications, (4) Interface of
Metaheuristics, and (5) Challenging New Problems.
Submissions are electronic, in PDF format, using the
easychair system.</span></p>
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Extended abstracts of work-in-progress of maximum 3
pages</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(31,56,100);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">S2)</span><span
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High-quality manuscripts that have been recently
submitted or accepted in a journal (within the last six
months)</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All
submissions will be peer reviewed. All submitted papers
must follow the submission guidelines outlined below.
Accepted contributions of categories S1 will be
published in the MIC 2019 conference proceedings.
Accepted contributions of category S2 will be orally
presented at the conference, but not included into the
conference proceedings.</span></p>
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Guidelines</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Authors
can submit papers either to the open or the invited
sessions. For the latter, authors should specify the
session where they have been invited to contribute. All
papers must be formatted according to the guidelines
using the electronic templates (LaTeX and Microsoft
Word) available at the conference site. Submissions are
electronic, in PDF format, using the easychair system </span><a
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">At
least one author of each accepted contribution is
required to register and attend the conference to
present their work, otherwise their paper will be
withdrawn. Authors will be required to agree to this
requirement at the time of submission. MIC accepts only
one presentation per registered author.</span></p>
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</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Special
Issue</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">After
the conference, we will publish an Special Issue on
Metaheuristics in the </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14753995"
style="text-decoration-line:none"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">International
Transactions in Operational Research</span></a><span
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(ITOR) edited by Celso Ribeiro. We will invite the best
work presented at MIC2019 to submit extended papers to
the special issue. This call will also be open to the
whole metaheuristics community. ITOR stats: impact
factor: 2.4; ISI Journal Citation Reports Ranking 2017,</span><span
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</span><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">21/83
in Operations Research & Management Science. </span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Organizing
Committee</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Andrés
L. Medaglia – Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá,
Colombia)</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jorge
E. Mendoza – HEC Montréal (Montréal, Canada)</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rubén
Ruiz – Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia,
Spain)</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Juan
G. Villegas – Universidad de Antioquia (Medellín,
Colombia)</span></p>
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