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So-called string problems are abundant in bioinformatics and computational biology. New optimization problems dealing with DNA or protein sequences are constantly arising and researchers are highly in need of efficient optimization techniques for solving them.One obstacle for optimization practitioners is the atypical nature of these problems which require an interdisciplinary approach in order to solve them efficiently and accurately.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Metaheuristics, MIC 2022, held in Syracuse, Italy, in July 2022.The 48 full papers together with 17 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions.

This book collects selected contributions of the “Optimization and Decision Science - ODS2023” international conference on the theme of optimization in green sustainability and ecological transition. ODS2023 was held in Ischia, 4–7 September 2023, and was organized by AIRO, the Italian Operations Research Society. The book offers new and original contributions on operations research, optimization, decision science, and prescriptive analytics from both a methodological and applied perspectives with a special focus on SDG related topics.It provides a state-of-the art on problem models and solving methods to address a widely class of real-world problems, arising in different application areas such as logistics, transportation, manufacturing, health, ICT and mobile networks, and emergency/disaster management. In addition, the scientific works collected in this book aim at providing significant contributions in the themes of sustainability, traffic and pollution reductions, and energy management.This book is aimed primarily at researchers and Ph.D. students in the Operations Research community. However, due to its interdisciplinary contents, this book is of high interest also for students and researchers from other disciplines, including artificial intelligence, computer sciences, finance, mathematics, and engineering as well as for practitioners facing complex decision-making problems in logistics, manufacturing production, and services.

This book collects selected contributions of the “Optimization and Decision Science - ODS2023” international conference on the theme of optimization in green sustainability and ecological transition. ODS2023 was held in Ischia, 4–7 September 2023, and was organized by AIRO, the Italian Operations Research Society. The book offers new and original contributions on operations research, optimization, decision science, and prescriptive analytics from both a methodological and applied perspectives with a special focus on SDG related topics.It provides a state-of-the art on problem models and solving methods to address a widely class of real-world problems, arising in different application areas such as logistics, transportation, manufacturing, health, ICT and mobile networks, and emergency/disaster management. In addition, the scientific works collected in this book aim at providing significant contributions in the themes of sustainability, traffic and pollution reductions, and energy management.This book is aimed primarily at researchers and Ph.D. students in the Operations Research community. However, due to its interdisciplinary contents, this book is of high interest also for students and researchers from other disciplines, including artificial intelligence, computer sciences, finance, mathematics, and engineering as well as for practitioners facing complex decision-making problems in logistics, manufacturing production, and services.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, LION 18, held in Ischia Island, Italy, in June 2024. The 31 full papers and 4 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Learning and Optimization, LION 10, which was held on Ischia, Italy, in May/June 2016. The 14 full papers presented together with 9 short papers and 2 GENOPT papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions.

This proceedings volume contains the invited papers and the contributed papers th accepted for presentation at the 9 International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2010), that was held at the Continental Terme Hotel, Ischia (Naples), Italy, during May 20-22, 2010. PrevioussymposiaoftheserieswereheldinRiga(2001),MonteVerita(2003), RiodeJaneiro(2004),Santorini(2005),Menorca(2006),Rome(2007),CapeCod (2008), and Dortmund (2009). Seventy-three papers were submitted by researchers from 19 countries. Each paper was reviewed by three experts among the Program Committee members and some trusted external referees. At least two reviewers were from the same or closely related discipline as the authors. The reviewers generally provided a high-quality assessment of the papers and often gave extensive comments to the authors for the possible improvement of the presentation. The submission and review process was supported by the ConfTool conference management software and we are thankful to Harald Weinreich for letting us use it. The Program Committee selected 40 regular papers for presentation at the conference.In addition to the 40 contributed papers, this volume includes two invitedpapersrelatedtocorrespondingkeynotetalks:GiuseppeF.Italiano(U- versity of Rome "Tor Vergata,"Italy)spoke on "ExperimentalStudy of Resilient Algorithms and Data Structures" and PanosM. Pardalos(University of Florida, USA) spoke on "Computational Challenges with Cliques, Quasi-Cliques and Clique Partitions in Graphs." Many people and organizations contributed to SEA 2010. We are parti- larlygrateful for the patronageand ?nancial support of the University of Naples "FedericoII"andtheDepartmentofMathematicsandApplications"R.Cacci- poli,"and for the ?nancial support of GNCS (Gruppo Nazionale per il Calcolo Scienti?co) - INdAM (Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica).