The International Summer School on Metaheuristics is aimed at Ph.D. students interested in the growing field of modern optimization techniques. Internationally renowned experts will give introductory tutorials on the basics of metaheuristics and plenary talks on the very latest in approximation methods. The participants will have plenty of opportunities for discussion, debate and work.

Organizers:

• Marco Dorigo, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
• Michael Sampels, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
• Thomas Stützle, FG Intellektik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.

Schedule

Legend:

• ACO: Ant Colony Optimization
• DLS: Dynamic Local Search
• EDA: Estimation of Distribution Algorithms
• GRASP: Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures
• IG: Iterated Greedy
• ILS: Iterated Local Search
• SA: Simulated Annealing
• VNS: Variable Neighborhood Search

• Participants: some participants who already completed their PhD will present details on their research work
  • Roberto Aringhieri: "Metaheuristics for Solving SONET Network Design Problems"
  • Robin Gras: "Cooperative metaheuristics to solve complex bioinformatics problems"
  • Petra Hofstedt: "An Introduction to Constraint Programming"
  • Marco Pranzo: "Applications and algorithms for complex job shop scheduling problems"
  • Neil Urquhart: "Solving a real world routing problem using Evolutionary Algorithms and Agents"

Location:

Tenerife is one of the Canary Islands on the west coast of Africa. Surrounded by the sea, it never gets really hot or cold. With an average day temperature of 23 C and about 8 hours of sunshine a day in March, it is an optimal place for a summer school in a relaxing atmosphere. The summer school fee is 150 Euro. The hotel and flights can be booked at:

EUROPE Hotelbuchungs und Reiseservice, Mrs Christine Schmitz, Planegger Strasse 23a-c, 82166 Gröfelfing, Germany, tel. +49- 89-896095-12, Fax +49-89-896095-22.

For rates refer to EUROPE Hotelbuchungs und Reiseservice.

Since a larger number of participant registered to the summerschool the presentations will be held in Hotel Europe Villa Cortes, which is just next to the Park Club Europe hotel across the street. The exact room is still to be fixed.

Registration:

There are no longer available places for participating at the summer school.