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European Journal of Operational Research
Feature Issue on Adaptation of Discrete Metaheuristics for Continuous Optimization
Guest editors: Zbigniew Michalewicz and Patrick Siarry.

Most metaheuristics have been created for solving discrete combinatorial
optimization problems. Practical applications in engineering, however, usually
require techniques which handle continuous variables, or miscellaneous
continuous and discrete variables. As a consequence, a large research effort
has focused on fitting several well-known metaheuristics, like Simulated
Annealing (SA), Tabu Search (TS), Genetic Algorithms (GA), Ant Colony
Optimization (ACO), to the continuous cases. The goal of this special issue is
to collect state-of-the art research papers that discuss recent developments
in that area and to highlight some general ideas that proved fruitful for
transforming discrete domains of application into continuous ones. Therefore,
we invite original, high quality papers related, but not limited to the
following topics:
- Methodological developments aimed at adapting some metaheuristics (especially
  SA, TS, GA, ACO, GRASP, variable neighbourhood search, guided local search,
  scatter search, path relinking, .) to continuous or discrete/continuous
  variable problems.
- Theoretical and experimental studies on metaheuristics adapted to continuous
  optimization, e.g., convergence analysis, performance evaluation methodology,
  test-case generators, constraint handling, etc.
- Software implementations and algorithms for metaheuristics adapted to
  continuous optimization.
- Real-life applications of discrete metaheuristics adapted to continuous
  optimization.
- Performance comparisons of discrete metaheuristics (adapted to continuous
  optimization) with that of competitive approaches, e.g., Particle Swarm
  Optimization (PSO), Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDA), Evolutionary
  Strategies (ES),  specifically created for continuous optimization.

Important dates

Deadline for submissions: June 30th, 2005.

Date of completion of the reviewing process: December 31st, 2005.

Submission process

We encourage authors to send submissions via email in an electronic form (PDF,
Postscript, Ms Word) to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Alternatively four hard copies must be sent by mail to:

Patrick Siarry
University of Paris 12, LERISS
61 avenue General de Gaulle, 94010 Créteil, FRANCE
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