21-23 June 2021

Catania (Sicilia), Italy

http://ola2021.sciencesconf.org/

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OLA is a conference focusing on the future challenges of optimization and learning methods and their applications. The conference OLA'2021 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in optimization and learning to discuss recent research results and to develop new ideas and collaborations in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.

OLA'2021 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of optimization and learning research such as big optimization and learning, optimization for learning, learning for optimization, optimization and learning under uncertainty, deep learning, new high-impact applications, parameter tuning, 4th industrial revolution, computer vision, hybridization issues, optimization-simulation, meta-modeling, high-performance computing, parallel and distributed optimization and learning, surrogate modeling, multi-objective optimization …

* Submission papers: We will accept two different types of submissions:

–       S1: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages

–       S2: Original research contributions of a maximum of 10 pages

* Important dates:

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Invited session organization  Dec 18, 2020

Paper submission deadline     Dec 18, 2020

Notification of acceptance    March 24, 2021

* Proceedings:
Accepted papers in categories S1 and S2 will be published in the proceedings. A SCOPUS and DBLP indexed Springer book will be published for best accepted long papers. All proceedings will be available at the conference.

* Conference Steering Committee Chair
El-Ghazali Talbi (Univ. Lille & INRIA, France)

* Conference Chairs
Mario Pavone (Univ. Catania, Italy)
Lionel Amodeo (UTT, France)

* Conference Program Chairs
Bernabé Dorronsoro (Univ. Cadiz, Spain)
Vincenzo Cutello (Univ. Catania, Italy)

* Organization Committee
Rocco A. Scollo (Univ. Catania, Italy)
Antonio M. Spampinato (Univ. Catania, Italy)
Georgia Fargetta (Univ. Catania, Italy)
Carolina Crespi (Univ.  Catania, Italy)
Jeremy Sadet (Univ. Lille, France)
Rachid Ellaia (EMI, Morocco)

* Publicity Chairs
Juan J. Durillo (Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany)
Grégoire Danoy (Univ. Luxembourg, Luxembourg)