The International Journal of Intelligent Real-Time Automation
A journal of IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control

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CALL FOR PAPERS – SPECIAL ISSUE

Deadline for paper submission: October 15, 2010

Expected publication date: June 2011

AIM & SCOPE

Scheduling and planning problems are ubiquitous in many real-world settings. These problems transpire in a large variety of forms, and have enormous socio-economic impact. For many years, significant work has been devoted to automating scheduling and planning processes using different kinds of methods. This special issue focuses specifically on the use of local search algorithms for real-world scheduling and planning by soliciting original scientific contributions in the form of (1) experimental research based on real-world data and (2) industrial case studies. Please note that studies based solely on random data or old benchmark sets from the literature will not be considered.

The topics of this special issue include, but are not limited to, methodological developments aimed at adapting some simple local search based metaheuristics (e.g. Greedy Randomised Adaptive Search and Variable Neighborhood Search) and/or more advanced ones (e.g. Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search, Evolutionary Algorithms, Ant Systems and Particle Swarm Algorithms) to various industrial/real-world problems; experimental studies on the roles and behaviours of local search within an evolutionary framework (e.g. Memetic Algorithms) using real-world data; software implementations for scheduling and planning; as well as other relevant real-life applications.

We encourage submissions from both academics and practitioners . Two types of papers are welcome: (1) regular papers reporting new research or applications and (2) letters or research notes discussing new developments from the industry.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Full papers can be submitted to: http://ees.elsevier.com/eaai (all manuscripts should follow the submission guidelines available at the web site)

During the submission process, please select special issue on ‘LS Scheduling & Planning’ as paper category.

Please submit papers on or before October 15, 2010. All submissions will be peer-reviewed following the review process of EAAI.

(Prospective authors are encouraged to indicate their interests any time before the submission deadline)

The special issue is planned to be published in June 2011.

GUEST EDITORS

Raymond CHIONG, rchiong@swin.edu.au

FICT

Swinburne University of Technology

John Street Hawthorn

Victoria 3122

AUSTRALIA

Patrick SIARRY , siarry@univ-paris12.fr

LiSSi (EA 3956)

University of Paris 12

61 avenue du General de Gaulle

94010 Créteil

FRANCE