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LION18 Scope

The 18th Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference

This meeting, which continues the successful series of LION events (LION 14 in Athens, LION 16 in Milos Island, LION 17 in Nice), is exploring the intersections and uncharted territories between machine learning, artificial intelligence, mathematical programming and algorithms for hard optimization problems.

The main purpose of the event is to bring together experts from these areas to discuss new ideas and methods, challenges and opportunities in various application areas, general trends and specific developments.

The large variety of heuristic algorithms for hard optimization problems raises numerous interesting and challenging issues. Practitioners are confronted with the burden of selecting the most appropriate method, in many cases through an expensive algorithm configuration and parameter tuning process, and subject to a steep learning curve. Scientists seek theoretical insights and demand a sound experimental methodology for evaluating algorithms and assessing strengths and weaknesses. A necessary prerequisite for this effort is a clear separation between the algorithm and the experimenter, who, in too many cases, is "in the loop" as a crucial intelligent learning component. Both issues are related to designing and engineering ways of "learning" about the performance of different techniques, and ways of using past experience about the algorithm behavior to improve performance in the future. Intelligent learning schemes for mining the knowledge obtained from different runs or during a single run can improve the algorithm development and design process and simplify the applications of high-performance optimization methods. Combinations of algorithms can further improve the robustness and performance of the individual components provided that sufficient knowledge of the relationship between problem instance characteristics and algorithm performance is obtained.

Proceedings

Papers accepted into the LION18 proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Please prepare your paper in English using the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) template, which is available here. Papers must be submitted in PDF at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lion18.

When submitting a paper to LION18, authors are required to select one of the following three types of papers:

  • Long paper: original novel and unpublished work (max. 15 pages in LNCS format);
  • Short paper: an extended abstract of novel work (max. 4 pages in LNCS format);
  • Work for oral presentation only (no page restriction; any format).
For example, work already published elsewhere, which is relevant and which may solicit fruitful discussion at the conference. See the conference website or contact the conference organizers for further information.

Please note that concurrent submissions are not allowed, and that a unique author of each accepted paper must register for conference for the paper to be included in the proceedings.

The complete Call for paper can be found here.


Important dates

All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE = UTC-12h).

  • Special Sessions proposals:
    1. submission opens October 12, 2023;
    2. submission closes October 25, 2023;
    3. notification of acceptance October 31, 2023.
  • Abstract only submission:
    1. submission opens October 31, 2023;
    2. submission closes March 4, 2024;
    3. notification of acceptance April 15, 2024.
  • Full Paper submission:
    1. full paper submission opens January 11, 2024;
    2. full paper submission deadline March 4, 2024;
    3. full paper notification of acceptance April 15, 2024.

  • April 1, 2024, registration opens
  • April 30, 2024, early registration deadline
  • May 1, 2024, conference pre-proceedings
  • May 10, 2024, late registration deadline
  • June 9-13, 2024, conference at Ischia, Italy

Sponsors (to be confirmed)

Organization

Chairs

General chair: Paola Festa, Università di Napoli “Federico II”.

Steering Committee

Roberto Battiti (University of Trento, Italy - Head of the Steering Committee)  
Francesco Archetti (Consorzio Milano Ricerche, Italy)  
Christian Blum (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain)  
Mauro Brunato (University of Trento, Italy)  
Carlos A. Coello-Coello (CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico)  
Clarisse Dhaenens (University of Lille, France)  
Paola Festa (University of Napoli, Italy)  
Martin Charles Golumbic (University of Haifa, Israel)  
Youssef Hamadi (Tempero Tech, France)  
Laetitia Jourdan (University of Lille, France)  
Nikolaos Matsatsinis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)  
Panos Pardalos (University of Florida, USA)  
Mauricio Resende (University of Washington, USA)  
Meinolf Sellmann (InsideOpt, USA)  
Yaroslav Sergeyev (University of Calabria, Italy)  
Dimitris Simos (SBA Research, Austria)  
Thomas Stuetzle (University of Bruxelles, Belgium)  
Kevin Tierney (Bielefeld University, Germany)

Technical Program Committee:

  • Carlos Ansòtegui (University of Lleida, Spain)
  • Francesco Archetti (Consorzio Milano Ricerche, Italy)
  • Annabella Astorino (ICAR-CNR, Italy)
  • Hendrik Baier (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands )
  • Roberto Battiti (University of Trento, Italy)
  • Laurens Bliek (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands )
  • Christian Blum (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain)
  • Mauro Brunato (University of Trento, Italy)
  • Zaharah Bukhsh (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands )
  • Sonia Cafieri (Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile, France)
  • Antonio Candelieri (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy)
  • Zhiguang Cao (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
  • Marco Chiarandini (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
  • John Chinneck (Carleton University, Canada)
  • Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis (University of Patras, Greece)
  • Philippe Codognet (JFLI / Sorbonne Universitè, Japan / France)
  • Patrick De Causmaecker (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
  • Renato De Leone (University of Camerino, Italy)
  • Clarisse Dhaenens (Université Lille 1 (Polytech Lille, CRIStAL, INRIA), France)
  • Luca Di Gaspero (DPIA - University of Udine, Italy)
  • Bistra Dilkina (University of Southern California, USA)
  • Theresa Elbracht (Bielefeld University, Germany)
  • Adil Erzin (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics)
  • Giovanni Fasano (University Ca'Foscari of Venice, Italy)
  • Paola Festa (University of Napoli FEDERICO II, Italy)
  • Adriana Gabor (Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi)
  • Jerome Geyer-Klingeberg (Celones, Germany)
  • Isel Grau (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands )
  • Vladimir Grishagin (Nizhni Novgorod State University, Russia)
  • Mario Guarracino (ICAR-CNR, Italy)
  • Francesca Guerriero (University of Calabria, Italy)
  • Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis (University of Patras, Greece)
  • Youssef Hamadi (Tempero, France)
  • Andre Hottung (Bielefeld University, Germany)
  • Laetitia Jourdan (INRIA/LIFL/CNRS, France)
  • Serdar Kadioglu (Brown University, USA)
  • Marie-Eleonore Kessaci (Université de Lille, France)
  • Michael Khachay (Krasovsky Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Russia)
  • Elias B. Khalil (University of Toronto, Canada)
  • Zeynep Kiziltan (University of Bologna, Italy)
  • Yury Kochetov (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Russia)
  • Ilias Kotsireas (Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada)
  • Dmitri Kvasov (DIMES, University of Calabria, Italy)
  • Dario Landa-Silva (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
  • Hoai An Le Thi (Université de Lorraine, France)
  • Daniela Lera (University of Cagliari, Italy)
  • Yuri Malitsky (FactSet, USA)
  • Vittorio Maniezzo (University of Bologna, Italy)
  • Silvano Martello (University of Bologna, Italy)
  • Yannis Marinakis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
  • Nikolaos Matsatsinis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
  • Laurent Moalic (University of Haute-Alsace - IRIMAS, France)
  • Hossein Moosaei (Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Czech Republic)
  • Tatsushi Nishi (Osaka University, Japan)
  • Panos Pardalos (University of Florida, USA)
  • Axel Parmentier (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, France)
  • Konstantinos Parsopoulos (University of Ioannina, Greece)
  • Vincenzo Piuri (Universita' degli Studi of Milano, Italy)
  • Oleg Prokopyev (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
  • Helena Ramalhinho (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
  • Michael Römer (Bielefeld University, Germany)
  • Massimo Roma (SAPIENZA Universita' of Roma, Italy)
  • Valeria Ruggiero (University of Ferrara, Italy)
  • Frédéric Saubion (University of Angers, France)
  • Andrea Schaerf (University of Udine , Italy)
  • Elias Schede (Bielefeld University, Germany)
  • Marc Schoenauer (INRIA Saclay Île-de-France, France)
  • Meinolf Sellmann (InsideOpt, USA)
  • Marc Sevaux (Lab-STICC, Université de Bretagne-Sud, France)
  • Paul Shaw (IBM, France)
  • Dimitris Simos (SBA Research, Austria)
  • Thomas Stützle (Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium)
  • Tatiana Tchemisova (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
  • Kevin Tierney (Bielefeld University, Germany)
  • Gerardo Toraldo (Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy)
  • Paolo Turrini (University of Warwick, UK)
  • Michael Vrahatis (University of Patras, Greece)
  • Om Prakash Vyas (Indian Institute of Information Technology , India)
  • Ranjana Vyas (Indian Institute of Information Technology , India)
  • Dimitri Weiß (Bielefeld University, Germany)
  • Daniel Wetzel (Bielefeld University, Germany)
  • David Winkelmann (Bielefeld University, Germany)
  • Dachuan Xu (Beijing University of Technology, Chine)
  • Qingfu Zhang (University of Essex & City U of HK, Hong Kong)
  • Anatoly Zhigljavsky (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
  • Antanas Zilinskas (Vilnius University, Lithuania)

Location, travel, accommodation

Ischia Island, Naples, Italy

Ischia is one of the wonderful islands in the Gulf of Naples, having volcanic origin and known and appreciated all around the world for its diversified landscape, natural beauty, and thermal water.

Its wonderful thermal hot springs have been used for wellness and therapeutic treatments since the VII century b.C. On Ischia, there are many nice beaches that invite the visitor to take a swim.

Conference Hotel

Hotel Continental Terme has an architecture expressed in the Mediterranean style buildings surrounded by the lush greenery of a park.

The Conference Centre counts 12 comfortable modular meeting rooms hosting from 15 to 300 seats.

It offers to participants the opportunity to combine work with a short holiday of sun, sea and wellness with the added value that only an enchanting place like Ischia can give.

Contacts

Interested in participating in or sponsoring LION18?

If you would like to be alerted about the call for papers, the call for contests and special sessions, and additional organization details please contact the Chairs, you will find their email in their websites.