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****************************************************************************************                           OLA'2020 International Conference on Optimization and Learning: Challenges and Applications

17-19 Feb 2020                          Cadiz, Spain

http://ola2020.sciencesconf.org/ ****************************************************************************************

OLA is a conference focusing on the future challenges of optimization and learning methods and their applications. The conference OLA'2020 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in optimization and learning to discuss recent research results and to develop new ideas and collaborations in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. OLA'2020 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of optimization and learning research such as optimization for learning, learning for optimization, optimization and learning under uncertainty, new high-impact applications, parameter tuning, 4th industrial revolution, hybridization issues, optimization-simulation, meta-modeling, high-performance computing, parallel and distributed optimization and learning, surrogate modeling, multi-objective optimization ... Submission papers: We will accept two different types of submissions: -       S1: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages -       S2: Original research contributions of a maximum of 10 pages

Important dates: =============== Submission deadline     Sept 20, 2019 Notification of acceptance     Nov  9, 2019

Proceedings: Accepted papers in categories S1 and S2 will be published in the proceedings that will be available at the conference. In addition, a post-conference SCOPUS indexed Springer book and a special issue in a Journal are planned to be published. Participants will be invited to submit extended versions of their work for consideration.