Call for Papers

Paper Format

Please prepare your paper in English using the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) template, which is available here. Papers must be submitted in PDF.

Types of Submissions

When submitting a paper to LION15, authors are required to select one of the following three types of papers:

Long paper: original novel and unpublished work (max. 15 pages in LNCS format);
Short paper: an extended abstract of novel work (max. 6 pages in LNCS format);
Work for oral presentation only (no page restriction; any format). For example, work already published elsewhere, which is relevant and which may solicit fruitful discussion at the conference.

Topics of Interest

LION15 welcomes high quality submissions on the broad topics of machine learning, artificial intelligence, energy, mathematical programming, optimization (models, algorithms and applications) and heuristics. Additionally, more specialized, submission topics for long and short papers may include, but are not limited to:

automatic solver configuration
parallel methods for search and optimization
hard combinatorial optimization problems
intelligent optimization in health, e-health, bioinformatics and neurosciences
machine learning and optimization methods in tourism and hospitality
nature-inspired algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems
hard combinatorial optimization problems in combinatorics, computational geometry and machine learning
DC (difference of convex functions) learning: theory, algorithms and applications
computational intelligence for smart cities
computational intelligence for autonomous driving
optimization and management in smart manufacturing
algorithms and applied optimization for environmental data science
machine learning and robust optimization techniques in finance applications
machine learning and optimization methods in software engineering

Important Dates

All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE = UTC-12h).

Submission deadline	~~February 15, 2021~~ ~~March 15, 2021~~ April 15 (firm)
Author notification	~~March 31, 2021~~ ~~April 31, 2021~~ ~~May 15, 2021~~ May 31
Registration opens	~~May 20, 2021~~ June 1, 2021
Conference	June 20-25, 2021
Submission of camera-ready papers, source files, formatted according to Springer's LNCS guidelines	July 25, 2021

Submission System

All papers must be submitted using EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lion15.

Publications

Conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
LION series LNCS published proceedings: https://link.springer.com/conference/lion.

The submission instructions for the LION 15 LNCS post-proceedings volume, will be uploaded on the conference webpage asap.
Volume Editors: Dimitris E. Simos, Panos M. Pardalos, Ilias S. Kotsireas
Revised selected papers of LION15 will be published in a special issue of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence.
LION series AMAI special issues published:

Guest editorial: revised selected papers from the LION12 conference
- Ilias S. Kotsireas
- Panos M. Pardalos
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, volume 88, pages 1–2 (2020)

The AMAI Editorial Office enforces strict quality control on all submissions, before these are released to any special issue guest editors, and therefore, submission not abiding by the guidelines, are returned to the Authors. All submission will undergo a rigorous refereeing process, up to the AMAI standards.
General submissions guidelines for AMAI: https://www.springer.com/journal/10472/submission-guidelines

LION 15 AMAI Special Issue
Guest Editors: Dimitris E. Simos (Austria), Panos M. Pardalos (United States), Ilias S. Kotsireas (Canada)

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2021

Notification Deadline: February 28, 2021

LION 15 AMAI Special Issue manuscript submission: https://www.editorialmanager.com/amai/
Select "LION15" as the article type when prompted in the pull-down menu. For any inquiries please contact the special issue Guest Editors.