[Turkmath:8040] CfP: ECCO 2012 in Antalya, Turkey --- cordially welcome

[Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber]

CALL FOR PAPERS
The 25th Conference of the ECCO (European Chapter on Combinatorial  
Optimization)
April 26 - 28, 2012


www.eccoxxv.org

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2012

Venue:  IC Green Palace Hotel, Antalya, Turkey.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission for abstracts starts:                                       
August 30, 2011
Deadline for abstract submission:                                      
February 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance:                                            
February 10, 2012
Deadline for early registration:                                       
March 10, 2012
Deadline for author registration (for inclusion in the program):       
March 20, 2012
Conference:                                                            
April 26 – 28, 2012
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TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to

- applications of combinatorial optimization in logistics and supply  
chain management, manufacturing, energy
production and distribution, telecommunications, game theory,  
bioinformatics, health informatics, healthcare,
finance, discrete and hybrid dynamical systems, data mining, machine  
learning, and other fields,

- exact solution algorithms, approximation algorithms, heuristics, and  
meta-heuristics for combinatorial
optimization problems,

- graph theory and network flows,

- integer programming, global optimization, stochastic integer  
programming, multi-objective programming.

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Authors are invited to submit an abstract of their paper in English by  
February 1, 2012 online. (www.eccoxxv.org)
Participants of ECCO 2012 are cordially invited for submitting papers  
for the special issue on Advances in Combinatorial Optimization and  
Related Topics of the journal Optimization.  
(http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02331934.asp)
Submission deadline of full papers is March 31, 2013.
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PLENARY SPEAKERS

         Bernard RIES, LAMSADE - Université Paris-Dauphine

         Miguel F. ANJOS, École Polytechnique de Montréal

PASCAL2 INVITED SPEAKER

         John SHAWE-TAYLOR, University College, London

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INVITED STREAMS AND ORGANIZERS

     Combinatorial and Hybrid Regulatory Systems – Game Theory (G.-W.  
Weber, S.Z Alparslan Gök, E. Kropat)

     Combinatorial Optimization in Computational Biology,  
Bioinformatics and Medicine  (J. Blazewicz, M. Szachniuk)

     Combinatorial Optimization in Data Mining (C. Iyigün)

     Combinatorial Optimization in Supply Chain Management (M. Turkay)

     Combinatorial Optimization in the Financial Sector  (G.-W. Weber,  
K. Yildirak)

     Constraint Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (A. Ornek,  
B. Hnich, C. Ozturk)

     Emerging Applications of Combinatorial Optimization (C. Oguz, D.T. Eliiyi)

     Integer and Combinatorial Optimization (X. Sun)

     Material Flows in Production Networks (S. Göttlich)

     Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Combinatorial Optimization  
(K. Miettinen)

     PASCAL 2 Stream - Machine Learning and Combinatorial Optimization  
(J. Zerovnik)

     Recent Advances in Scheduling (E. Pesch)

     Spectral Graph Theory Techniques and Applications in  
Combinatorial Optimization (D. Cardoso)

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

         Jacek BLAZEWICZ, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

         Domingos Moreira CARDOSO, University of Aveiro, Portugal

         Van-Dat CUNG, Grenoble INP, France

         Alain HERTZ, École Polytechnique Montréal, QC, Canada

         Refail KASIMBEYLI (Co-Chair), Izmir University of Economics, Turkey

         Silvano MARTELLO, University of Bologna, Italy

         Xiaoling SUN, Fudan University, China

         Paolo TOTH, University of Bologna, Italy

         Gerhard-Wilhelm WEBER (Co-Chair), Middle East Technical  
University, Turkey
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

from Izmir University of Economics, Turkey:

         Deniz Tursel Eliiyi
         Ugur Eliiyi
         Refail Kasimbeyli (Co-chair)
         Erdinc Oner
         Arslan Ornek (Co-chair)
         Ozgur Ozpeynirci
         Selin Ozpeynirci
         Zeynep Sargut

from Middle East Technical University, Turkey:

         Basak Akteke-Ozturk
         Sinan Gurel
         Yesim Aydin Son
         Gurkan Ustunkar
         Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber (Co-Chair)
         Kasirga Yildirak

from Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey:

         Zeynep Alparslan Gok
         Ahmet Tokgozlu
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For additional information, please contact Zeynep Sargut, at  
zeynep.sargut at ieu.edu.tr or
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, at gweber at metu.edu.tr




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