Conference chairs: B. Dorronsoro (Univ. Cadiz, Spain)

Conference program chairs: A. Nakib (Univ. Paris Est, France), G. Danoy (Univ. Luxembourg)

Steering committee: Prof. E. Talbi (France, Chair), Prof. R. Ellaia (Morocco), Prof. K. Mellouli (Tunisia)

Publicity committee

- J. Ferrer (Univ. Malaga, Spain)

- S. Nesmachnow (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)

- Y. Ouazene (UTT, Troyes, France)

Program committee

- M. Aider (Algeria)

- E. Alba (Spain)

- L. Amodeo (France)

- R. Battiti (Italy)

- J. Blazewicz (Poland)

- C. Blum (Spain)

- P. Bouvry (Luxembourg)

- T. Crainic (Canada)

- F. D'Andreagiovanni (France)

- K. Deb (USA)

- K. Deep (India)

- J. del Ser (Spain)

- K. Dorner (Austria)

- M. Dorigo (Belgium)

- A. El Afia (Morocco)

- R. Ellaia (Morocco)

- T. M. Escobar (Mexico)

- P. Festa (Italy)

- J. Figueira (Portugal)

- E. Fraga (UK)

- J. M. García-Nieto (Spain)

- M. Gendreau (Canada)

- S. Hanafi (France)

- J-K. Hao (France)

- R. Hartl (Austria)

- L. Idoumghar (France)

- I. Kucukkoc (Turkey)

- P. Korosec (Slovenia)

- S. Krichen (Tunisia)

- R. Magán-Carrión (Spain)

- S. Martins (Brazil)

- R. Massobrio (Uruguay)

- N. Melab (France)

- A.J. Nebro (Spain)

- S. Nesmachnow (Uruguay)

- J. F. Oliveira (Portugal)

- I. H. Osman (Lebanon)

- G. Papa (Slovenia)

- M. Pavone (Italy)

- D. Precioso (Spain)

- J. Puchinger (France)

- G. Raidl (Austria)

- H. Ramalhinho (Spain)

- M. Resende (USA)

- C. Ribeiro (Brazil)

- A. Salhi (UK)

- A. Santiago (Mexico)

- F. Saubion (France)

- A. Sbihi (France)

- O. Schutze (Mexico)

- P. Siarry (France)

- T. Stutzle (Belgium)

- P. Toth (Italy)

- K-C. Tan (Singapour)

- A. Viana (Portugal)

- F. Yalaoui (France)

- Ismail Yusuf (Malaysia)

- N. Zufferey (Switzerland)

Contents

Time in Morocco is European Time - 1h. 5

Nov 01 Registration. 5

Registration at 5* Palm Plazza Hotel lobby. 5

Nov 02 Onsite. 5

Nov 03 Onsite. 5

Nov 04 Recorded presentations. 5

Recorded presentations available on the website of the conference. 5

Wednesday, Nov 01. 6

Thursday, Nov 2. 7

Friday, Nov 3. 8

Saturday, Nov 4. Erreur ! Signet non défini.

Recorded presentations available on the web site of the conference. 9

Conference Place. 12

Organizers ......................... 12

Program at glance

Time in Morocco is European Time - 1h.

Nov 01 Registration

Registration at 5* Palm Plazza Hotel lobby

Nov 02 Onsite

9h15 Morocco Time	Opening (Prof. E-G. Talbi)
9h30	Session Combinatorial Optimization (chair: Prof. F. Yalaoui)
10h50	Break
11h20	Session Optimization & Machine Learning (chair: A. Nakib)
12h40

Nov 03 Onsite

9h30	Session Optimization (chair: Prof. N. Melab)
10h50	Break
11h20	Session Applications (chair: Prof. L. Amodeo)
12h40

Recorded presentations

Recorded presentations available on the website of the conference

Detailed program

Wednesday, Nov 01

10h - 12h – Registration

Morocco time

Thursday, Nov 2

9h15 – 9h30 Opening Session – Prof. E-G. Talbi

Morocco time

9h30-10h50

Session – Combinatorial Optimization (chair: Prof. F. Yalaoui)

· A systematic review and ranking of operators in adaptive large neighborhood search for vehicle routing problems
Stefan Voigt

· Ergodic Annealing: intelligent optimization under uncertainty
Fabio Maccheroni, Carlo Baldassi, Massimo Marinacci, Marco Pirazzini

· Memetic Algorithms for the Workforce Routing and Scheduling Problem: case study of Energy Distribution System Operator (DSO)
Loïc Cardinaël, Wahiba RAMDANE CHERIF-KHETTAF, Ammar Oulamara

· A comparative analysis of simheuristics to address the berth allocation problem in bulk ports
Daniel Mendoza-Casseres

· Hyperheuristic as tuning tool of generalized swap strategy
Marek Kvet, Jaroslav Janáček

10h50 – 11h20 – Coffee break

11h20 - 12h40

Session – Optimization & Machine learning (chair: A. Nakib)

· An improved multi-objective genetic algorithm for the neural architecture search problem
Eloy Bedia-Garcia, Enrique Dominguez

· Mixed-variable surrogate-based optimization using probability features for categorical variables
Charlotte Beauthier, Sylvério Pool Marquez, Caroline Sainvitu, Annick Sartenaer

· EVADyR: a new dynamic resampling algorithm for optimizing noisy expensive systems
Soraya Zertal, Sophie Robert, Philippe Couvee

· An optimised version of differential evolution heuristic for feature selection
Thibault Anani, Francois Delbot, Jean-François Pradat-Peyre

· Machine Learning-based Per-Instance Algorithm Selection for High-Performance Subgraph Isomorphism Enumeration
Syed Ibtisam Tauhidi, Arindam Karmakar, Thai Son Mai, Hans Vandierendonck

Friday, Nov 3

9h30-10h50

Session – Optimization (chair: Prof. N. Melab)

· Mixed Integer Linear Programming Based Large Neighborhood Search Approaches for the Directed Feedback Vertex Set Problem
Maria Bresich, Johannes Varga, Günther R. Raidl, Steffen Limmer

· Implementation of Metaheuristic Search for Finding Shortest Path in Tunnelled Network
Habiba Akter

· A Simulated Annealing Based Approach for the Roman Domination Problem
Jakob Greilhuber, Sophia Schober, Enrico Iurlano, Günther R. Raidl

· A Study About Meta-Optimizing the NSGA-II Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm
José F. Aldana-Martín, Antonio J. Nebro, Juan J. Durillo, María del Mar Roldán García

· Success Rate Based Scaling Factor Adaptation in Dual-Population Differential Evolution
Vladimir Stanovov, Eugene Semenkin

10h50 – 11h20 – Coffee break

11h20 - 12h40

Session – Applications (chair: Prof. L. Amodeo)

· Multi-Objective Metaheuristic Solution Approach for the Crop Plant Scheduling Problem
Maksim Lalić, Obrenović Nikola, Selin Ataç, Stefano Bortolomiol, Marko Oskar, Sanja Brdar, Vladimir Crnojević, Ivan Luković

· A honey bee mating optimization hyperHeuristic for patient admission scheduling problem
Imen Oueslati, Moez Hammami, Issam Nouaouri, Ameni Azzouz, Lamjed BenSaid, Hamid Allaoui

· Artificial intelligence for metaheuristic parameter setting
Jaroslav Janáček, Marek Kvet

· Network flow models for days off scheduling

Ghassen Tlig, Fethi Jarray

· Trend-Risk in Complex Portfolio Selection Strategy
David Neděla, Sergio Ortobelli, Tomas Tichy

19h30 BANQUET Meeting @Hotel Palm Plazza Lobby

For participants with registration with banquet (Banquet ticket).

Recorded presentations available on the web site of the conference

· Harnessing Collective Intelligence: Integrating Particle Swarm Optimization and Reinforcement Learning for Efficiently Solving Binarized Coverage Problems
Marcelo Orlando Becerra Rozas, Broderick Crawford, Ricardo Soto, El-Ghazali Talbi, Giovanni Giachett

· Feature Selection Problem: a short slr about its formulation
José Barrera, Broderick Crawford, Felipe Cisternas, Ricardo Soto, Giovanni Giachetti

· Noise Impact On Convolutional Neural Networks Ability to Generalize
Abdeldjallil AIDI, Abou Elhassen BENYAMINA, Karim MEZZOUG

· Impact of Structural Bias on the Sine Cosine Algorithm: A Theoretical Investigation Using the Signature Test
Kanchan Rajwar, Kusum Deep, Muthu Mathirajan

· High Performance Algorithms for the Unrelated Parallel Machines Scheduling Problem with a Common Server and Job-Sequence Dependent Setup Times
Youssouf HADHBI, Laurent Deroussi, Nathalie Grangeon, Sylvie Norre, Christophe Blanchon

· Opposition Based Local Escaping Marine Predators Algorithm for Continuous Optimization
Manish Kumar, Kusum Deep

· Metaheuristic Algorithms for Circle Packing Problem: A Comprehensive Review
Yogesh Kumar, Kusum Deep

· Uniformly Deployed Sets in Computer Science and Optimisation
Peter Czimmermann, Zuzana Borcinova

· Cluster images with AntClust: a clustering algorithm based on the chemical recognition system of ants
Winfried Oed, Parisa Memarmoshrefi

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