[DMANET] ECCO 2013: Call for papers

The 26th Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization
will be held in Paris, France, from May 30 to June 1, 2013.

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Abstract submission: from January 14 to February 28th, 2013.
Notification of acceptance: March 15th, 2013.

Information Contacts:committee@eccoxxvi.fr
Webpage:http://www.eccoxxvi.fr/
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The ECCO XXVI - 2013 conference will be organized jointly by the
LAMSADE-CNRS UMR 7243 of the University Paris-Dauphine and the
laboratory CEDRIC of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM).

ECCO (European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization) is a working group
of EURO (Association of European Operational Research Societies) that
provides an excellent opportunity to discuss recent and important issues
in Combinatorial Optimization and its applications with European
combinatorialists by organizing annual conference meetings.

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The primary objectives are:
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- exchanging results and experiences in solving real-world combinatorial
optimization problems,

- reporting on development and implementation of appropriate models and
efficient solution methods for combinatorial optimization problems,

- establishing networking contacts between individuals and research
groups working on related topics,

- promoting the work on combinatorial optimization (theory and
applications) to the broader scientific community,

- identifying challenging research problems for the field, as well as
promising research outlets (both in theory and applications),

- promoting interactions with researchers in other related fields.

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Topics of interest:
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- applications of combinatorial optimization in logistics and supply
chain management, manufacturing, energy production and distribution,
telecommunications, bioinformatics, finance, discrete and hybrid
dynamical systems, 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, multiobjective programming.

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Preliminary list of Plenary Speakers:
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Dorit S. Hochbaum, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research – University of California
Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica – Università di Roma
Peter Gritzmann, Mathematics Department, Technische Universität München
Stéphan Thomassé, Laboratoire de l'informatique du parallélisme - Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon

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Program Committee:
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Cédric BENTZ, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France
Jacek BLAZEWICZ, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Denis CORNAZ, Université Paris-Dauphine, France
Van-Dat CUNG, Grenoble INP, France
Alain HERTZ, École Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
Ridha MAHJOUB, Université Paris-Dauphine, France
Silvano MARTELLO, University of Bologna, Italy
Vangelis PASCHOS, Université Paris-Dauphine, France
Christophe PICOULEAU, Co-Chair, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France
Bernard RIES, Co-Chair, Université Paris-Dauphine, France
Paolo TOTH, University of Bologna, Italy

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Organizing Committee:
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Cédric BENTZ,
Denis CORNAZ,
Nassim DEHOUCHE,
Katerina KINTA,
Ridha MAHJOUB,
Vangelis PASCHOS,
Christophe PICOULEAU (Co-Chair),
Bernard RIES (Co-Chair)

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Dr Bernard Ries
Associate Professor
LAMSADE - Université Paris-Dauphine
E-mail: bernard.ries@dauphine.fr
Homepage: http://www.lamsade.dauphine.fr/~ries

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