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