Workshops will take place on September 11, 2010.

Below you may find a list of accepted workshops proposals with short abstracts. For further information, visit the homepage of a workshop or contact the organizers.

The registration for any Workshop is not binding. Your appearance is still optional, but thanks to this information we may be able to plan the workshop schedule appropriately.

Self-tuning, self-configuring and self-generating search heuristics (Self* 2010)
Gabriela Ochoa, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, U.K.
Marc Schoenauer, Universite Paris Sud, France.
Darrell Whitley, Colorado State University, USA.
Website of the Organizers


Understanding Heuristics: How do we get the best of both theory and empirical methods?
Ender Ozcan & Andrew Parkes, (Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK)
Jonathan Rowe (Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK)
Website of the Organizers

Experimental methods for the assessment of computational systems (WEMACS)
Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Cologne University of Applied Sciences.
Marco Chiarandini, University of Southern Denmark.
Luis Paquete, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Mike Preuss, TU Dortmund, Germany.
Website of the Organizers

Biomimicry in optimization problems. CANCELLED
Urszula Boryczka, University of Silesia, Institute of Computer Science.
Website of the Organizers


Workshop on parallel and cooperative search methods.
Djamila Ouelhadj, University of Portsmouth, UK.
Ender Ozcan, University of Nottingham, UK.
Michel Toulouse, Oklahoma State University, USA.
Short introduction.
Website of the Organizers