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Master Class on Metaheuristics and Constraint Programming

May 29, 2005. Prague, Czech Republic

As in previous years, CP-AI-OR'05 will be preceded by a Master Class where leading researchers give introductory and overview talks in a given area. This year, the topic of the Master Class will be Metaheuristics and Constraint Programming. The Master Class is intended for PhD students, researchers, and practitioners.

8.30 - 18.00 Registration 9.25 - 9.30 Welcome and opening remarks Block A: (Pure) trajectory-based and population-based methods 9.30 - 11.00 Trajectory-based metaheuristics Michel Gendreau 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break 11.30 - 13.00 Evolutionary Algorithms for Optimization Darrell Whitley 13.00 - 14.30 lunch (at Profesní dům) Block B: Survey of LS/CP hybrid proposals in the literature 14.30 - 15.30 Survey of Local Search / CP Hybrids Louis-Martin Rousseau 15.30 - 16.00 coffee break Block C: Systems/languages/toolboxes integrating metaheuristics and CP 16.00 - 16.30 Repair and Local Search in ECLiPSe Joachim Schimpf 16.30 - 17.00 Constraint-Based Local Search with Comet Laurent Michel 17.00 - 17.30 Using Genetic Algorithms in ILOG Solver Paul Shaw

To participate at the Master Class you must register and pay the registration fee (it is not requested to attend the CP-AI-OR conference). A limited number of student grants is available.

Your questions and comments might be addressed to cpaior05 (AT) cpaior05.mff.cuni.cz.