Bernabé Dorronsoro - Optimization and Learning: 4th International Conference, OLA 2021, Catania, Italy, June 21-23, 2021, Proceedings

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This book compiles the best papers submitted to the Fourth International Conference on Optimization and Learning (OLA 2021). The papers were selected according to the scores awarded by the Program Committee during the blind review process. OLA 2021 was going to take place in Catania, Italy, during June 2123, but it finally had to be organized in online mode. The main objective of the OLA conference series is to attract influential researchers from all over the world working in the fields of complex problems optimization, machine learning, and deep learning to identify synergies and discuss applications for real-world problems. The conference builds a welcoming atmosphere where researchers can present innovative work in the relevant fields.

Three categories of papers were considered for OLA 2021, namely ongoing research works and high impact journal publications (both in the shape of an extended abstract) along with regular papers with novel contents and important contributions. A selection of the best papers in this latter category is published in this book.

A total of 49 papers were presented at OLA 2021, which were arranged into nine sessions, covering topics such as the use of optimization methods to enhance learning techniques, the use of learning techniques to improve the performance of optimization methods, advanced optimization methods and their applications, machine and deep learning techniques, and applications of learning and optimization tools to transportation and routing, scheduling, or other real-world problems.

The conference received a total of 62 papers, from which only 27 (43.5% of all submissions) were selected for publication in this book.