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Aims and Scope of the Conference:
One of the most important concerns of our societies is the ensuring and continuous improvement of living standard which is impossible without fast development in all aspects of life, technology and science. Nowadays, optimization is an enabling technology in innovation. We aim to bring together practitioners of operations research from industry and economic practice with researchers, software developers and those operations researchers who are doing consultancy for companies. The conference focuses on recent advances in the large scale continuous optimization and their applications in industry. High performance optimization software and novel applications are reviewed as well.
Topics Include:
- linear and nonlinear optimization,
- semidefinite and semi-infinite optimization,
- global and stochastic optimization,
- linear and nonlinear complementarity problems,
- constrained and unconstrained optimization,
- interior point techniques for linear and nonlinear optimization,
- nonsmooth optimization, derivative-free methods,
- generalized convexity/monotonicity and its applications,
- innovative applications of linear and nonlinear optimization.
Participants:
Participants are expected both from academics institutions and industry. Industry participants get in contact with leading experts of continuous optimization, learn the state of the art of research and about new academic software tools that has the potential of commercialization in the near future. Academic participants are informed about the challenges industry faces and the need of industry when optimization problems are used for new product design and process optimization. Moreover, the relatively low registration fee allows the participation of a considerable number of Ph.D. students both from the new and forthcoming EU countries as well as from the old EU countries.