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EWG ECCO, European Chapter on combinatorial optimization
Last update: 2009-11-17
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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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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 88; Venice, June 89; Barcelona, May 90; Dubrovnik, May 91; (cancelled), Graz, April 92; Brussels, April 93; Milan, February 94; Poznan, May 95; Dublin, April 96; Tenerife, May 97; Copenhagen, May 98; Bendor, May 99; Capri, May 00; Bonn, May 01; Lugano, May-June 02; Molde, June 03; Beirut, June 04; Minsk, May 05; Porto, May 06; Cyprus, May 07; Dubrovnik, May 08; Jerusalem, May 09. An abstract booklet is distributed to the participants at each meeting.
Past activities
The ECCO-XXII meeting organized by the Operations Research Society of Israel in Jerusalem, Israel, in May 17-19, 2009.
Program Committee and Organizing Committee Chair:
Asaf Levin, Department of Statistics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, levinas@tx.technion.ac.il
Future activities
The ECCO XXIII - CO 2010 Joint conference of ECCO and the British CO group will be organized
by the University of Malaga and the University of Rey Juan Carlos. This conference is supported by SEIO Spanish society of Statictics and Operations Research and EURO. It will take place in Malaga, SPAIN.
Dates: May 27, 2010 - May 29, 2010, Thursday Friday Saturday.
The important deadlines are as follows:
Abstract submission deadline: March 05th, 2010.
Notification of acceptance: March 09th, 2010.
Earlier registration deadline: March 26th, 2010.
The plenary speakers are programmed so far:
Edmund Burke (University of Nottingham, UK)
Leen Stougie (VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Monique Guignard (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Scientific Committee and Organizing Committee Co-Chair:
Prof. Laureano ESCUDERO, University of Rey Juan Carlos, SPAIN.
Prof. Rafael CABALLERO, University of Malaga, SPAIN.
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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