ACCEPTED PAPERS

The list of accepted papers is available. Following the link you can also find the instructions for the submission of the camera-ready version of the papers.

Out of 37 submissions, we accepted 13 papers, which yields an acceptance rate of 35.1%.

The decision on the papers is based on (at least) two referee reports and on an evaluation by the workshop chairs. We expect you to follow carefully the comments of the referees. Note that the decision of acceptance is conditional to your implementation of the comments of the referees.

PROGRAM

The Workshop starts on August 29 (Monday) with the check-in of the participants at the reception desk and a formal opening. Additionally, every morning there will be a short time for participants who do not arrive on Monday to register. The Workshop will end on August 31 (Wednesday) in the afternoon.

Each accepted paper is allocated a time slot of 30 minutes (25-minutes talk plus 5 minutes for questions).

The Conference intends to bring together leading researchers in Metaheuristics and provide them with a relaxed atmosphere for interaction and discussion. The number and distribution of the talks is planned with this goal in mind. Common lunches with long lunch breaks and one free afternoon are purposely planned.

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE

Monday, August 29, 2005

09:00-11:15 Registration

11:15-11:30 Workshop opening

11:30-12:30 Session 1

11:30-12:00	A Taxonomy of Cooperative Search Algorithms
	(M.El-Abd and M.Kamel)
12:00-12:30	Parametrized Greedy Heuristics in Theory and Practice
	(A.Fuegenschuh)

13:00 Lunch

15:00-16:30 Session 2

15:00-15:30	A Hybrid GRASP-Path Relinking Algorithm for the Capacitated p-hub Median Problem
	(M.Pérez, F.Almeida, J.M.Moreno)
15:30-16:00	A Hybrid GRASP with Data Mining for the Maximum Diversity Problem
	(L.F.Santos, M.H.Ribeiro, A.Plastino, S.L.Martins)
16:00-16:30	Fast Ejection Chain Algorithms for Vehicle Routing with Time Windows
	(H.M.J.Sontrop, S.P. van der Horn, and M.Uetz)

16:30-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-18:00 Session 3

17:00-17:30	Comparing parallelization of an ACO : message passing vs. shared-memory
	(P.Delisle, M.Gravel, M.Krajecki, C.Gagné, W.L.Price)
17:30-18:00	A New Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm Using Clustering Applied to Automated Docking
	(S.Janson and D.Merkle)

around 20:00 Social dinner

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

09:00-10:30 Session 4

9:00- 9:30	Hybrid tabu search for lot sizing problems
	(J.P.Pedroso and M.Kubo)
9:30-10:00	A Hybrid Genetic and Variable Neighborhood Descent for Probabilistic SAT Problem
	(Z.Ognjanovic, U.Midic, N.Mladenovic)
10:00-10:30	Evolution Strategies and Threshold Selection
	(T.Bartz-Beielstein)

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 Session 5

11:00-11:30	An LP-based hybrid heuristic procedure for the generalized assignment problem with special ordered sets
	(A.P.French and J.M.Wilson)
11:30-12:00	3D Inter-Subject Medical Image Registration by Scatter Search
	(O.Cordón, S.Damas, J.Santamaría, and R.Martí)
12:00-12:30	A Hybrid Meta-Heuristic Approach for Natural Gas Pipeline Network Optimization
	(C.Borraz-Sánchez, R.Z.Ríos-Mercado)

12:30-12:45 Workshop closing

13:00 Lunch

15:00 Excursion (Visit of the Freixenet cellars with cava tasting)