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EWG ECCO, European Chapter on combinatorial optimization
Last update: 2010-08-19
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| Coordinator: |
Silvano Martello |
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University of Bologna
Viale Risorgimento 2
I-40136 Bologna
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| Board: |
Jacek Blazewicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland.
Van-Dat Cung, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France.
Alain Hertz, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada.
Paolo Toth, DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy.
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| Members: |
1018 members. Approximately 100 participants attend each meeting.
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Purpose and history
The EURO Working Group on Combinatorial Optimization, ECCO (European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimisation) was created in 1987 by C. Roucairol, D. de Werra and A. Rinnooy Kan. C. Roucairol chaired for the first 10 years and now it's chaired by S. Martello. This group provides an excellent opportunity to discuss recent and important issues in Combinatorial Optimization and its applications with European combinatorialists; most European countries are represented.
The group is suitable for people who are presently engaged in Combinatorial Optimization, either in theoretical aspects or in business, industry or public administration applications. All these fields are taken in consideration: operations management - logistics, production scheduling, location and distribution problem, resource allocation, flexible manufacturing, scheduling, engineering, VLSI design and computer design, network design, etc. Recent sessions in last ECCO meetingss have attached a particular emphasis to metaheuristics or new local search methods (tabu search, genetic algorithms, ant colonies, etc.), polyhedral approaches to difficult problems and recent developments in classical optimization problems (scheduling, assignment, knapsack, partitioning, etc.).
The meetings are held on a regular basis (once a year during Spring) and nicely combine scientific work and the exchange of new ideas with an exciting atmosphere, as in Paris, May 1988; Venice, June 1989; Barcelona, May 1990; Dubrovnik, May 1991(cancelled); Graz, April 1992; Brussels, April 1993; Milan, February 1994; Poznan, May 1995; Dublin, April 1996; Tenerife, May 1997; Copenhagen, May 1998; Bendor, May 1999; Capri, May 2000; Bonn, May 2001; Lugano, May-June 2002; Molde, June 2003; Beirut, June 2004; Minsk, May 2005; Porto, May 2006; Cyprus, May 2007; Dubrovnik, May 2008; Jerusalem, May 2009; Malaga, May 2010. An abstract booklet is distributed to the participants at each meeting.
Past activities
The ECCO XXIII - CO 2010, Joint conference of ECCO and the British CO group, was held in Malaga, Spain
on May 27-29, 2010.
Program Committee and Organizing Committee Chairs:
Laureano Escudero, University of Rey Juan Carlos and Rafael Caballero, University of Malaga.
ECCO and CO will publish a volume of the Annals of Operations Research on "Computational Issues in Combinatorial Optimization".
Instructions for authors can be found at:
http://www.springer.com/business/operations+research/journal/10479
Guest Editors:
Laureano Escudero, laureano.escudero@urjc.es
Silvano Martello, silvano.martello@unibo.it
Vitaly Strusevich, V.Strusevich@gre.ac.uk
Submission deadline for this volume: September 30, 2010
Future activities
The ECCO XXIV conference will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Dates: May 30 (Monday) - June 1 (Wednesday), 2011.
The important deadlines are as follows:
March 21, 2011 Submission of abstracts
March 28, 2011 Notification of acceptance
March 31, 2011 Early registration
The plenary speakers programmed so far are:
Martin Skutella,
Gerhardwilhelm Weber,
Gerhard Woeginger.
Scientific Committee and Organizing Committee Co-Chairs:
Leen Stougie (lstougie@feweb.vu.nl),
Anton Volgenant (A.Volgenant@uva.nl)
Publications
Special issue on EURO Summer Institute on Combinatorial Optimisation
European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 83, Number 2, 1995.
Special issues related to ECCO meetings:
M. Kovalyov and S. Martello (eds.) Combinatorics for Modern Manufacturing, Logistics and Supply Chains.
European Journal of Operational Research 189, 3, 2008
G. Hasle, A. Løkketangen and S. Martello (eds.),
Feature issue on ECCO-XVI: Rich models in Discrete Optimization - Formulation and Resolution.
European Journal of Operational Research 175, 3, 2006
L. M. Gambardella and S. Martello (eds.)
Feature issue on ECCO-XV: Metaheuristics and Worst-Case Guarantee Algorithms: Relations, Provable Properties and Applications.
European Journal of Operational Research 166, 1, 2005.
E. Pesch and S. Martello (eds.),
Feature issue on ECCO-XIV: Logistics: From Theory to Application.
European Journal of Operational Research 162, 1, 2005.
G. Improta and S. Martello (eds.),
Feature issue on ECCO-XIII: Graphs and Scheduling
European Journal of Operational Research 142, 2, 2002.
S. Martello and J.-F. Maurras (eds.),
Feature issue on ECCO XII: Graphs and Scheduling
European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 137, Number 2, 2002.
J. Krarup and D. Pisinger (eds.),
Feature issue on ECCO XI,
European Journal of Operational Research 125, 2, 2000.
R.E. Burkard, M. Labbé, M.T. Ramos and J. Sicilia (eds.),
Feature issue on ECCO X: Advances in Theory and Practice of
Combinatorial Optimization,
European Journal of Operational Research 123, 2, 2000.
Miscellaneous:
The book "Knapsack Problems: Algorithms and Computer Implementations"
by Silvano Martello and Paolo Toth, Wiley, 1990
and the associated computer codes are available for free downloading here.
ECCO organised in July 94 a EURO Summer Institute on Combinatorial Optimization in France, at Groupe HEC, Jouy en Josas. Twenty five participants representing 15 different countries presented their work covering the recent trends in CO such as metaheuristics and polyhedral approaches, as well as more traditional problem areas as scheduling, knapsack, 0-1 programming, etc. Following the usual tradition, a special issue of EJOR was devoted to this institute.
Budget
EURO annual subside: about 3,000 Euros for inviting two plenary speakers at the annual meeting.
In 2007, on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary Conference, EURO provided an additional 2,000 Euros subside for a special event in honor of Dominique de Werra, co-founder of ECCO, retiring at the end of 2007.
In 2008, EURO provided an additional 2,000 Euros subside for a special event in honor of Jack Edmonds, special guest at ECCO-XXI, May 29-31, 2008, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
In 2009, ECCO sponsored, as an official ECCO activity, the 5th Polyhedra and Combinatorial Optimization Workshop (Journée Scientifique POC), April 7-9, 2009) Pretty Structure, Existential Polytime and Polyhedral Combinatorics (Celebrating Jack Edmonds 75th birthday). The event was sponsored by EURO with 1,000 Euros.
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