SLS 2007
Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms
Designing, Implementing and Analyzing Effective Heuristics
6-8 September 2007. Brussels, Belgium
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Doctoral Symposium

Submissions for the doctoral symposium can be done through the online submission tool.

Doctoral Symposium

The Doctoral Symposium on Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms (SLS-DS) is part of the Workshop on Engineering Stochastic Local Search Algorithms in Brussels, Belgium, on 6-8 September 2007. The Doctoral Symposium is a constructive and friendly forum where doctoral students can:

  1. present their research and obtain constructive feedback from senior researchers
  2. establish contact with other students at a similar stage in their careers
  3. experience an international research event.
The goal of the symposium is to expose students to helpful criticism of their current or future research plans and to foster discussions related to their research and careers.

The format of the symposium is a short single slide oral presentation of the student's research topic followed by a poster presentation.

Places at the doctoral symposium will be limited. The organisers' decision on the acceptance of a student's work for presentation at the symposium will be based on an extended abstract describing the student's research. All submissions will be reviewed for relevance and for quality and clarity of presentation.

Accepted abstracts will appear in the doctoral symposium's proceedings, will be distributed to all participants of SLS 2007, and will appear as an IRIDIA Technical Report online (ISSN 1781-3794).

Submission

Submissions of 5-page extended abstracts are invited from doctoral students conducting research on all aspects of engineering stochastic local search algorithms. See the main workshop call for papers for the relevant research areas.

Submitted abstracts must be written in English, typeset in LaTeX2e, and formatted in the Doctoral Symposium formatting style. Please download the formatting style package for LaTeX2e. Authors are expected to use the default font and font size of the formatting style and submit their abstract in PDF format. Papers that do not respect these guidelines will be rejected.

The submissions can be done through the online submission tool that is now active.

By submitting an extended abstract, the author(s) agree that, if their abstract is accepted, they will:

  1. Submit a final, revised, camera-ready version by the deadline for camera-ready extended abstracts,
  2. Register at least one author for the Doctoral Symposium or SLS Workshop
  3. Attend the Doctoral Symposium (at least one author) to present their accepted abstract as a single slide oral presentation and as a poster.

Important Dates

August 10, 2007
Electronic Extended Abstract Submission Deadline
August 20, 2007
Author notification

Committee

  1. Enda Ridge, The Department of Computer Science, The University of York, U.K.
  2. Edward Curry, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway, Ireland
  3. Thomas Stützle, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
  4. Mauro Birattari, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
  5. Holger H. Hoos, CS Department, UBC, Vancouver, Canada