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

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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)

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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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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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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@ieu.edu.tr or Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, at gweber@metu.edu.tr