Warsaw, Poland, 17–20 September, 2023
https://fedcsis.org/sessions/aaia/wco

Organized within FedCSIS 2023 (IEEE: #57573)
Strict submission deadline: May 23, 2023, 23:59:59 AOE (no extensions)

KEY FACTS: Proceedings: submitted to IEEE Digital Library; indexing:
DBLP, Scopus and Web of Science; 70 punktów parametrycznych MEiN

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********************* Statement concerning LLMs *********************

Recognizing developing issue that affects all academic disciplines, we
would like to state that, in principle, papers that include text
generated from a large-scale language model (LLM) are prohibited, unless
the produced text is used within the experimental part of the work.

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Many real world problems arising in engineering, economics, medicine and
other domains can be formulated as optimization tasks. These problems
are frequently characterized by non-convex, non-differentiable,
discontinuous, noisy or dynamic objective functions and constraints
which ask for adequate computational methods.

The aim of this workshop is to stimulate the communication between
researchers working on different fields of optimization and
practitioners who need reliable and efficient computational optimization
methods.

We invite original contributions related to both theoretical and
practical aspects of optimization methods.

Topics

The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

+    combinatorial and continuous global optimization
+    unconstrained and constrained optimization
+    multiobjective and robust optimization
+    optimization in dynamic and/or noisy environments
+    optimization on graphs
+    large-scale optimization, in parallel and distributed computational
environments
+    meta-heuristics for optimization, nature-inspired approaches and
any other derivative-free methods
+    exact/heuristic hybrid methods, involving natural computing
techniques and other global and local optimization methods
+    numerical and heuristic methods for modeling

The applications of interest are included in the list below, but are not
limited to:

+    classical operational research problems (knapsack, traveling
salesman, etc)
+    computational biology and distance geometry
+    data mining and knowledge discovery
+    human motion simulations; crowd simulations
+    industrial applications
+    optimization in statistics, econometrics, finance, physics,
chemistry, biology, medicine, and engineering
+    environment modeling and optimization

Best Paper Award

The best WCO'23 paper will be awarded during the social dinner of
FedCSIS 2023.

The best paper will be selected by WCO'23 co-Chairs by taking into
consideration the scores suggested by the reviewers, as well as the
quality of the given oral presentation.

Best Paper Award – past winners
https://fedcsis.org/sessions/aaia/wco/awards

Submission rules:

–    Authors should submit their papers as Postscript, PDF or MSWord files.
–    The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style
(including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are
available here.
–    Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their
scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.
–    Preprints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB
memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants.
–    Only papers presented at the conference will be published in
Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore®
database.
–    Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN,
ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site.
–    Conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation according
to information here.
–    Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS
technical sessions.

Important dates:

+ Paper submission (strict deadline): May 23, 2023, 23:59:59 (AoE; there
will be no extension)
+ Position paper submission: June 7, 2023
+ Author notification: July 11, 2023
+ Final paper submission and registration: July 31, 2023
+ Payment (early fee deadline): July 26, 2023
+ Conference date: September 17-20, 2023

WCO Committee:https://fedcsis.org/sessions/aaia/wco/committee