Friday, January 29, 2016

[DMANET] ISCO 2016 - Second Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS
4th International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization
(ISCO 2016) May 16-18, 2016

SPRING SCHOOL ON:
"Extended formulations for Combinatorial Optimization"
May 19-20, 2016

Vietri sul Mare (Salerno), Italy
www.isco2016.it

ISCO is a biennial symposium with its first issue held in Hammamet,
Tunisia in March 2010, its second one in Athens, Greece in April 2012
and its third one in Lisbon, Portugal in March 2014. ISCO 2016 symposium
aims to bring together researchers from communities related to
combinatorial optimization, including algorithms and complexity,
mathematical programming and operations research. It is intended to be a
forum for presenting original research in these areas and especially in
their intersections. Quality papers on all aspects of combinatorial
optimization, from mathematical foundations and theory of algorithms, to
computational studies and practical applications, are solicited.

CONFIRMED CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Volker Kaibel (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg)
Adam Letchford (Lancaster University)
Ramamoorthi Ravi (Carnegie Mellon University)

SPRING SCHOOL
ISCO 2016 will be followed by a spring school on "Extended Formulations
for Combinatorial Optimization". Volker Kaibel and Samuel Fiorini will
give 16 hours of lectures on May 19 and 20, 2016.

CONFERENCE IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions deadline: February 15, 2016
Notification to authors: March 20, 2016
Early registration deadline: April 5, 2016

Conference Days: May 16-18, 2016

SPRING SCHOOL IMPORTANT DATES
Early registration deadline for Spring School: April 5, 2016
Spring School Days: May 19-20, 2016


TOPICS OF INTEREST
Papers presenting original unpublished results in all areas of
combinatorial optimization and its applications are welcome. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
- Approximation algorithms
- Branch-and-bound algorithms
- Branch-and-cut-and-price algorithms
- Computational biology
- Computational complexity
- Computational geometry
- Constraint Programming
- Cutting plane algorithms
- Exact and parameterized algorithms
- Graph and network algorithms
- Interior point methods
- Linear and nonlinear integer programming
- Local search algorithms
- Metaheuristics
- On-line algorithms
- Polyhedral combinatorics
- Randomized algorithms
- Scheduling algorithms
- Game theory
- Multiobjective optimization

The submission deadline is February 15, 2016. Simultaneous submissions
to other conferences with published proceedings or journals are not
allowed. Paper submission and reviewing will be handled only via
Easychair. More information about the submission procedure is available
on the web site.

TYPE OF SUBMISSIONS
There will be two types of submissions:

a) Regular papers

Regular papers cannot exceed 12 pages (including front matter and
bibliography). The post-conference proceedings will be published in a
special Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume. For an accepted
paper to be included in the post-conference proceedings, it should be
presented at the conference by one of the authors. The authors of
accepted regular papers will have to prepare their camera-ready version
two weeks after the end of ISCO 2016.

b) Short papers
Short papers cannot exceed one page (maximum 3000 characters, including
spaces). Accepted short papers will be in the abstracts booklet which
will be distributed during the conference.

SPECIAL ISSUES
Authors of accepted papers (both regular and short papers) for
presentation at ISCO 2016 will be invited to submit their work for
possible publication on a special issue of Networks and of Journal of
Combinatorial Optimization.
Details about the submission process to these special issues will be
published on the conference web site soon.

COMMITTEES

CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Raffaele Cerulli (University of Salerno, Italy)
Satoru Fujishige (RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan)
Ridha Mahjoub (University Paris-Dauphine, France)

STEERING COMMITTEE
Mourad Baïou (Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France)
Pierre Fouilhoux (University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France)
Luis Gouveia (CIO, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Nelson Maculan (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
Ridha Mahjoub (University Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France)
Vangelis Paschos (University Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France)
Giovanni Rinaldi (IASI, Rome, Italy)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
http://www.isco2016.it/committees

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Raffaele Cerulli (University of Salerno, Italy)
Francesco Carrabs (University of Salerno, Italy)
Monica Gentili (University of Salerno, Italy)
Andrea Raiconi (University of Salerno, Italy)
Carmine Cerrone (University of Salerno, Italy)
Ciriaco D'Ambrosio (University of Salerno, Italy)
Rosa Pentangelo (University of Salerno, Italy)
Selene Silvestri (University of Salerno, Italy)

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The Organizing Committee - ISCO 2016
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