Optimization 2014 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from different areas and with distinct backgrounds, but with common interests in optimization.

This meeting has international recognition as an important forum of discussion and exchange of ideas. It is the eighth edition of a series of international conferences in optimization organized in Portugal under the auspices of APDIO (the Portuguese Operations Research Society).

The previous seven meetings were the following:
\ Optimization 91, Coimbra
\ Optimization 95, Braga
\ Optimization 98, Coimbra
\ Optimization 2001, Aveiro
\ Optimization 2004, Lisboa
\ Optimization 2007, Porto
\ Optimization 2011, Lisboa

Optimization 2014 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from different areas and with distinct backgrounds, but with common interests in optimization.

This meeting has international recognition as an important forum of discussion and exchange of ideas. It is the eighth edition of a series of international conferences in optimization organized in Portugal under the auspices of APDIO (the Portuguese Operations Research Society).