EWG EUROPT, EURO Continuous Optimization

NameEWG EUROPT, EURO Continuous Optimization
AnnouncementActivities of EUROPT in 2012
Websitehttp://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/
NewsletterThe EUROPT Newsletter is published electronically four times a year.
Online newsletterhttp://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/h_letters.html
BoardCHAIR: Prof. Kaisa Miettinen
Department of Mathematical Information Technology
P.O. Box 35 (Agora)
FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä Finland
Mobile: +358 50 3732247
Fax: +358 14 260 2771

Email: kaisa.miettinen@jyu.fi
Web page: http://users.jyu.fi/~miettine/engl.html

and

KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Department of Mathematics
Division of Optimization and Systems Theory
SE-100 44 Stockholm
Sweden

GENERAL VICE CHAIR and EVENT COORDINATOR: Prof. Mirjam Dür
Department of Mathematics
University of Trier
54286 Trier, Germany
T: +49 651 201 3481

Email: duer@uni-trier.de">duer@uni-trier.de>
Web page: http://www.math.uni-trier.de/~duer/

SECRETARY : Prof. Leonidas Sakalauskas
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics
Akademijos st 4
08663 Vilnius, Lithuania
Fax: +3705 2729209
Tel: +3705 2109323

Email: litors@ktl.mii.lt , href="sakal@ktl.mii.lt"> sakal@ktl.mii.lt

TREASURER: Prof. Oliver Stein
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Institute of Operations Research (IOR)
76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
Phone: +49-721-608-6782
Fax: +49-721-608-5440

Email: stein@kit.edu
Web page: http://kop.ior.kit.edu/stein.php

NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Prof. Tatiana Tchemisova
University of Aveiro
Department of Mathematics
Campus Universitário de Santiago
3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Phone: +351 919010052

Email: tatiana@ua.pt

Coordinator Prof. Mirjam Duer
duer@uni-trier.de
University of Trier
Mathematics
Phone: +49 651 201 3481
Coordinator Prof. Kaisa Miettinen
kaisa.miettinen@jyu.fi
University of Jyvaskyla
Dept. of Mathematical Information Technology
P.O. Box 35 (Agora)
FI-40014 University of Jyvaskyla
Finland
Phone: +358 50 3732247
Fax: +358 14 260 2771
Url: http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/engl.html
Webmaster Prof. Janos D. Pinter
janos.d.pinter@gmail.com
Pinter Consulting Services, Inc.
Url: http://www.pinterconsulting.com
Webmaster Aysun Tezel Özturan
aozturan@hacettepe.edu.tr
Hacettepe University
Department of Mathematics
Fen Fakültesi
Beytepe
06800 Ankara
Turkey
Url: http://www.mat.hacettepe.edu.tr/personel/akademik/aozturan/index.html
Purpose and historyEUROPT was established at the second IPM Workshop (IPM-2000), organized
before the EURO-XVII meeting in Budapest, July 2000. IPM-2000 was the first workshop of EUROPT. There were 58 founding members who joined EUROPT during the EURO-XVII conference. For comparison, our current membership is over 1100.

Purpose:

  • to disseminate state-of-the-art knowledge and to support research in continuous optimization,

  • to contribute to the education of young optimization researchers and students (organizing EURO Summer and Winter Institutes, and by announcing Ph.D. Programs etc.),

  • to assist in gathering the continuous optimization community in Europe organized under the umbrella of EURO,

  • to collaborate with working groups having joint interests inside EURO. Outside EURO, we have good contacts with various special interest groups and
    societies. Furthermore, we want to

  • to participate in interdisciplinary research with colleagues from science, engineering and economy,

  • to establish regular information channels and regular meetings,

  • to build links to users of continuous optimization methodology,

  • to support preparation, refereeing and editing of publications.



MembersOver 1100

International composition: EUROPT has members also from other than European countries including:

Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Moldava, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, TRNC, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Ukraine

Trans-continental members are from

Algeria, Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia,
Gambia, India, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia,Mexico, Morocco, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Oman, Singapore, South Africa and the USA.

EUROPT has three honorary
chairs: Prof. Tamas Terlaky, Assoc. Prof. Tibor Illes and Prof. Gerhard
Wilhelm Weber.


Please join EUROPT, to pursue our common objectives by registering at the EUROPT homepage http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/
Past activities


  • the 9th EUROPT “Workshop Advances in Continuous Optimization” which took place in Ballarat, Australia, on July 8-9, 2011. This was the first annual workshop of EUROPT outside Europe. EUROPT is very grateful that by EURO this workshop became recognized in this sense, and with support granted.

    In the EUROPT 2011 workshop Prof. Juan Enrique Martinez-Legaz was awarded with the EUROPT Fellow 2011 title.

    This workshop was a satelite event of the following conference which we also supported:

  • IFORS 2011, Melbourne, Australia, July 10-15, 2011
    (http://www.ifors2011.org/).

    Furthermore, we co-organized

  • the 5th Global Conference on Power and Optimization - PCO 2011, Dubai, La Meridien Hotel, June 1-3, 2011 and
    (http://www.pcoglobal.com/dubai/PCO2011DUBAI.htm),

  • the 6th Summer School “Achievements and Applications of Contemporay Mathematics, Informatics and Physics” (AACIMP-2010), Kiev, Ukraine, August, 2011.

    EUROPT also was present in the

  • 21st International Conference on Multiple Criteria
    Decision Making    , June 13-17, 2011, Jyväskylä, Finland, (www.jyu.fi/mcdm2011).


  • Our special “10 Years EUROPT Birthday” event, given by 8th EUROPT “Workshop Advances in Continuous Optimization” took place in Aveiro, Portugal, on July 9-10, 2010 (www.europt2010.com).

    there we also honoured Prof. Yurii Nesterov: He was awarded the title of the EUROPT Fellow 2010.

    Furthermore, Prof. Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber was appointed as the third Honoray Chair of EUROPT.

  • We gave a very rich and strong contribution to the prestigous event EURO XXIV 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, July 11-14, 2010 (http://euro2010lisbon.org/), where we were very present in the Main Areas “Continuous Optimization”, “Optimal Control Theory & System Dynamics” and related ones, all of them with numerous streams and sessions, and by several Keynote Speakers.

    Moreover, there were several satellite events of EURO 2010, where EUROPT was actively involved and supportive:

  • EURO ORD Workshop on OR for Developing Countries - Young Researchers and PhD Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal, July 10, 2010
    (http://web.ing.puc.cl/~fcrespo/eurofdv/Lisbonconference/index.html),

  • State of the Art Workshop - a Workshop related to EURO XXIV / EUROPT / EURO ORD / EUROMSC / Ethics, both in Lisbon, Portugal, July 10 and 11, 2010 (http://euro2010lisbon.org/?content=satellite#STATEART),

    EUROPT is very grateful to EURO Executive Committee for having approved another great and special event of our group:

  • 24th Mini Euro Conference EurOPT 2010 - “Continuous Optimization and Information-Based Technologies in the Financial Sector”, June 23-26 in Izmir, Turkey
    (http://www.ieu.edu.tr/Europt-2010 ).

    What is more, EUROPT supported or coorganized the following events:

  • Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (HIBIT), Antalya, Turkey, April 20-22, 2010 (http://hibit2010.ii.metu.edu.tr/).

  • 3rd Global Conference on Power and Optimization - PCO 2010, Gold Coast, Australia, February 2-4, 2010 (http://www.engedu2.net/).

  • 4th Workshop on Optimization and Variational Analysis, Elche, Spain, July 14-16, 2010. This special event has taken place in honour of Professor Marco A. López, our EUROPT Chair, at the occasion of his 60th birthday,
    (http://cio.umh.es/ova4mlopez/).

  • 3rd Conference on Nonlinear Science and Complexity, Ankara, Turkey, July 28-31, 2010
    (http://nsc10.cankaya.edu.tr/).

  • 5th Summer School “Achievements and Applications of Contemporay Mathematics, Informatics and Physics” (AACIMP-2009), Kiev, Ukraine, August 3-15, 2010 (http://summerschool.ssa.org.ua/index.php).

  • EngOpt 2010 - 2nd International Conference on Engineering Optimization, Lisbon, Portugal, September 6-9, 2010 (http://www.engopt2010.org/), and

  • 4rd Global Conference on Power and Optimization,Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia, December 2-4, 2010 (http://www.pcoglobal.com/).

    Moreover, EUROPT supported the distinguished conference

  • ALIO/INFORMS Joint International Meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 6-9, 2010 (http://meetings2.informs.org/BuenosAires2010/).

  • EUROPT Homepage and
  • EUROPT E-Mails and E-Newletter, sent by e-mail,
  • our help to other EURO Working Groups and their activities, especially, EURO Working Groups Ethics and OR, Methodology of Complex Sociental Problems, and OR for Development, with
  • integration of further research areas in EUROPT,
  • supporting EURO in various activities, award and selection processes,
  • supporting EJOR and further journals related to EURO’s member societies, and

  • collaboration (official partnership) between ORST (Turkish OR Society) and GOR (German OR Society; GOR Representative in Turkey: Prof. Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber),
  • Balaban Valley Project-improvements of living conditions on Turkish rural countryside (scientific collaborator and supporter),
  • Kerkenes Village Project-improvements of living conditions on Turkish rural countryside (scientific collaborator and supporter),
  • Support for Australian Leadership Program for Africa (ALPA),

  • “Seminar on (Financial Mathematics and)Computational Biology, Medicine, Environment and Development”(weekly seminar), METU, Ankara
    (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/research/groups/compbio/seminars.html).

  • Special issue Continuous Optimization in Finance of the journal Optimization, it appeared as Optimization 58, 3 (2009),

  • AIP Proceedings (American Institute of Physics) of PCO 2010, 3rd Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization, February 2-4, 2010, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia (ISBN: 978-983-44483-1-8) and

  • Special issue OR for Better Management of Sustainable Development of European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) at the occasion of EURO XXI, supported by us, appeared as EJOR 193, 3 (March 16, 2009),

  • D. DeTombe and G.-W. Weber, State of the Art Workshop Societal Complexity 2009, EURO XXIII Conference Bonn, Germany, Europe, July 5, 2009, 23 European Conference on Operational Research , Volume 19, Greenhill & Waterfront (publisher), Europe: Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Guilford, UK, North-America: Montreal, Canada, ISBN/EAN 978-90-77171-29-5, Version 001 (small book), Nur 916, June 2009,

  • KORSD-2009 ISI Proceedings at the occasion of 5th International Vilnius Conference and EURO Mini Conference Knowledge-Based Technologies and OR Methodologies for Strategic Decisions of Sustainable Development (KORSD-2009)

    We also finalized the 3 special issues (at the occasion of our 20th Mini EURO Conference 2008 in Lithuania) of

  • TOP (selected contributions),

  • Informatica , that issue appeared as Informatica 20, 2, and and

  • Technological and Economic Development of Economy (Baltic Journal on Sustainability).
    The special issue of the journal Optimization Methods and Software at the occasion of EURO XXII appears in 2010.

    In 2009, there have been great events to which EUROPT contributed, but EUROPT also actively supported smaller events and meetings prepared by its sister EURO working groups.

  • EURO XXIII 2009 – 23rd European Conference on Operational Research, Bonn, Germany, July 5-8, 2009 (http://www.euro-2009.de/), for this very important event, a sensational number of streams could be prepared and abstracts gathered, many ones of them by EUROPT, its friends and members, again. At this event, one of our EUROPT’s initiators and members from the beginning, Prof. Dr. Jakob Krarup, received the EURO Distinguished Service Award.

  • 7th EUROPT Workshop “Advances in Continuous Optimization”, Remagen (near Bonn), Germany, July 3-4, 2009;
    (http://www.rheinahrcampus.de/Home.europt2009.0.html). There, we also appointed and honoured our EUROPT Fellow 2009: Prof. Dr. Adil Bagirov.

  • Workshop on Game Theory, Ankara, Turkey, January 30, 2009
    (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/Workshop.pdf);

  • A EURO ORD Workshop on OR for Developing Countries – Young Researchers and PhD Symposium, Remagen, Germany, July 4, 2009
    (http://www2.ing.puc.cl/~fcrespo/eurofdv/Bonnconference/homepage.htm);

  • State of the Art Workshop: Mutual Session of Special Researchers of several EURO Working Groups, OR and Development, Ethics, Decision Making, Methodology of Societal Complexity and Others, Remagen, Germany, July 5, 2009 (http://www.euro-2009.de/workshops.php),

  • 4th Summer School “Achievements and Applications of Contemporay Mathematics, Informatics and Physics” (AACIMP-2009), Kiev, Ukraine, August 5-16, 2009 (http://www.summerschool.ssa.org.ua/); moreover,

  • 2nd Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization (PCO) 2009, Bali, Indonesia, June 1-3, 2009 (http://www.engedu2.net/),

    and we gave support for

  • ICCAM 2009 – 14th International Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics, Antalya, Turkey, September 29 –October 2, 2009
    (http://www.iccam2009.net/),

    Moreover, it has been a great honour that EURO Executive Committee accepted two more Mini EURO Conferences with the involvement of EUROPT:

  • 5th International Vilnius Conference and EURO-Mini Conference "Knowledge-Based Technologies and OR Methodologies for Strategic Decisions of Sustainable Development" (KORSD-2009), September 30 - October 3, 2009, Vilnius
    (http://www.mii.lt/korsd-2009).

  • 20th Mini EURO Conference “Continuous Optimization and Knowledge-Based Technologies” (EUROPT- 2008), Neringa, Lithuania, May 20-23 2008
    (http://www.mii.lt/EUROPT-2008);

  • there, we also honoured Prof. Kees Roos: He became EUROPT Fellow 2008. Furthermore,

  • “Recent Developments in Financial Mathematics and Stochastic Calculus”, Workshop in Memory of Professor Hayri Körezlioglu, Ankara, Turkey, April 25-26, 2008 (https://kolmogorov.iam.metu.edu.tr/korezlioglu/);

  • “Workshop “The Simulation Tool Box for the Financial Engineer”,Ankara, Turkey, April 23-24,
    (http://korezlioglu.iam.metu.edu.tr/korezlioglu/index.php/Pre-Workshop_Seminar_Series );

  • "International Workshop on Hybrid Systems: Modelling, Simulation and Optimization",Istanbul, Turkey, May 14-17, 2008
    (http://portal.ku.edu.tr/~systemslab/hs/);

  • "Workshop on “Complex Societal Problems, Sustainable Living and Development”,Ankara, Turkey, May 16, 2008 ,
    (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/ ;details will follow);

  • International Conference on Engineering Optimization (EngOpt 2008), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 1-5, 2008 (http://www.engopt.org/);

  • “International Conference on Power Control Optimization” ,(PCO’2008), Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 18-20, 2008 (http://www.engedu2.net/ ) and

  • “3rd Open Summer School-Seminar "Achievements and Applications of Contemporary Informatics,Mathematics and Physics”, (AACIMP-2008), Kyiv, Ukraine, August 11-24, 2008
    (http://summerschool.ssa.org.ua/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 )

  • “Mini EURO Conference on Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine”,Rome, Italy, September 15-17, 2008
    (http://www.iasi.cnr.it/iasi/RomeConference/index.php).

  • IFORS 2008, 18th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, Sandton, South Africa, July 13-18, 2007 (http://www.orssa.org.za) and

  • IFIP TC8/WG8.3 Working Conference “International Conference on Collaborative Decision Making”, (CDM’08),Toulouse, France, July 1-4, 2008 (http://www.irit.fr/CDM08/) and

  • The Kerkenes Dag Project, Yozgat, Turkey, October 12, 2008
    (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/08kerk18octprog.doc ).

    Furthermore, in 2008, we published

  • EJOR Special issue Continuous Optimization in the Industry,

  • CEJOR Special Issue “Advances in Continuous Optimization”, and

  • proceedings Contributions of Workshop on Recent Developments in Financial Mathematics and Stochastic Calculus in Memory of Professor Hayri Körezlioglu (Ankara, Turkey, April, 25-26, 2008), on a CD,

  • ISI Proceedings of International Conference EURO Mini Conference “Continuous Optimization and Knowledge-Based Technologies” (EurOPT-2008, Neringa, Lithuania 2008),

    Moreover, we finalized

  • the Special Issue of MMOR Devoted to ESI 2006, dedicated to the EURO Summer Institute ESI XXIV: Optimization Challenges in Engineering: Methods, Software, and Applications (Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany, August 18 – September 2, 2008),

  • “Workshop on Sustainable Living at Turkish Rural Countryside”, Ankara, Turkey, June 8, 2007 (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/Workshop%20on%20Complex%20Societal%20Problems.doc );

  • EURO XXII 2007, 22st European Conference on Operational Research, Prague, Czech Republic, July 8-11, 2007 (http://euro2007.vse.cz/): more than 30 streams are initialized and coorganized by EUROPT and its members, and various semi-plenaries, tutorials and panels as well;

  • “PhD Workshop in OR for Development: EURO Working Group OR for Development”, Prague, Czech Republic, July 7, 2007
    (http://www2.ing.puc.cl/~fcrespo/eurofdv/conference/homepage.htm);

  • Joint EUROPT-OMS Conference - 2nd Conference on Optimization Methods & Software - 6th EUROPT Workshop “Advances in Continuous Optimization”, Prague, Czech Republic, July 4–7, 2007 (http://cio.umh.es/europt-oms/– with 160 participants; cf. also the report
    http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/Joint%20EUROPT-OMS%20Conference%20_short_.pdf );

  • there, we also honoured Prof. Georg Still : He became EUROPT Fellow 2007,

    for providing our friends well internationally, we also supported the big conference

  • INFORMS International Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, July 8–11, 2007
    (http://meetings.informs.org/Puertorico2007/ );

  • International Symposium on Health-Informatics and Bioinformatics, Antalya, Turkey, April 30 – May 2, 2007 (http://hibit.ii.metu.edu.tr/07/index.html; cf. also the report http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/hibit2007.doc);

  • “2nd Summer School “Achievements and Applications of Contemporary Informatics, Mathematics and Physics”, Kiev, Ukraine, August 8-20, 2007
    (http://summerschool.ssa.org.ua/);

  • EJOR Special Issue “Challenges of Continuous Optimization in Theory and Applications”.

    Furthermore, some of our distinguished members gave and give our best to support some further special issues:

  • EJOR Special Issue “OR for Better Management of Sustainable Development” at the Occasion of EURO XXI 2006,

  • CEJOR Special Issue “OR for Better Management of Sustainable Development” at the Occasion of EURO XXI 2006.

  • EURO XXI 2006, 21st European Conference on Operational Research, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 2-5, 2006 (http://www.euro2006.org/). Stronger than at any EURO conference before, EUROPT contributed this time and, herewith, helped for the wealth of the program and to the conference’s success. IFORS Distinguished Lecture – by a member of EUROPT: Prof. Dr. Saul Gass. EUROPT is contributing to the program by 20 Invited Streams, by a number of special lectures and many further contributed talks given by EUROPT members. From the 11 Semi-Plenaries, 3 were given by members of EUROPT. Moreover, from the 10 Tutorials, 6 ones are proposed by streams related with our EURO WG. Furthermore, there were 5 Keynotes, 2 of which were proposed by streams related also with EUROPT. Finally, there were several Panels – 1 of which was organized by a member of our WG.

  • At that occasion, moreover, we the celebrated the foundation of the two new EURO Working Groups “Operational Research in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine” and Operational Research for Development”.

  • “5th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization”, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 30 – July 1, 2006
    (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/): We had 7 excellent invited talks, and many contributed talks of participants from all over the world. Because of the strong interest, there were parallel sessions of contributed talks firstly our workshop series. At the occasion of the workshop, the organizational structure of EUROPT changed towards a Management Board with its members listed above. (Please find closer information about the workshop under
    (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/5thEUROPTWorkshop(short).pdf)

  • EURO Summer Institute “Optimization Challenges in Engineering:Methods, Software and Applications”, Wittenberg, Germany, August 18–September 2, 2006
    (http://wwwopt.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/
    events/esi2006/    ).Partner of this special event was, in particular, the German OR Society (GOR). We learned from 9 excellent experts and spent a precious time with many young people from Europe, but also the IFORS countries outside of Europe (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/ESI2006_finalreport.pdf).

  • Workshop on “Complex Societal Problems, Sustainable Living and Development”, Ankara, Turkey, April 15-21, 2006 ( http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/Workshop%20on%20Complex%20Societal%20Problems.doc);

  • “Workshop on Geometric Morphometry”, Ankara, Turkey, June 12-16, 2006 (http://www.metu.edu.tr/~aykut/), where a lot of methods from statistical learning and optimization serve and are promising;

  • “1st Summer School Achievements and Applications of Contemporary Informatics, Mathematics and Physics”, Kiev, Ukraine, August 4-20, 2006 (http://ssa.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua/ss/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1; please visit also the report http://www.ballarat.edu.au/ard/itms/CIAO/Workshops/Programme_final-1.html);

  • “5th Ballarat Workshop on Global and Nonlinear Optimization, Theory, Methods and Applications”, Ballarat, Australia, November 28-30, 2006
    (http://www.ballarat.edu.au/ard/itms/CIAO/Workshops/OTMA3.shtml);

  • there, we also honoured Prof. Alexander Rubinov in memoriam: Indeed, in that year, he became EURO Fellow 2006 - the first EUROPT Fellow in the history of EUROPT. In 2006, we introduced the tradition and honorary position of the EURO Fellow;

  • EUROPT coorganized Workshop "Sustainable Living in Rural Areas of Turkey", in Ankara, Turkey, March 7-21, 2005
    (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/workshop-program.doc), with Balaban Valley Group and Institute of Applied Mathematics of METU, Ankara, and with International and EURO Working Group on Complex Societal Problems.

  • At The 8th SIAM Conference on Optimization, in Stockholm, Sweden, May 15-18, 2005, two Mini Symposia organized by EUROPT, and one Mini Symposium associated (http://www.siam.org/meetings/op05/).

  • 17th EURO Mini Conference "Continuous Optimization in the Industry", in Pécs, Hungary, June 29 - July 1, 2005
    (http://www.cs.elte.hu/opres/Pecs05EUROmini/h_about.html),
    organized by EUROPT, HORS (Hungarian OR Society), University of Pécs and co-sponsored by GOR (German OR Society). At this event, three nowaday’s EUROPT members were among the invited ESI teachers.

  • At IFORS 2005 on Hawaii, July 11-15, 2005, EUROPT coorganized 1 session
    (http://www.informs.org/Conf/IFORS2005/).

  • At “International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics”, Turkey '05, in Antalya, Turkey, November 10-12, 2005, EUROPT serves in program and advisory committees
    (http://hibit05.ii.metu.edu.tr/index.html). Here, EUROPT’s contribution may also be seen in the context of our engagement for the new EURO Working Group “Operational Research in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics”.

  • EUROPT was a coorganizer of “Workshop on Spatial / Spatio-Temporal Data Mining (SDM) and Learning” (with Special Emphasis on Using SDM Techniques in Remote Sensing and GIS), METU, Ankara, Turkey in November 24-25, 2005 (http://www.sdm2005.metu.edu.tr/). Several EUROPT members gave presentations, e.g., 2 Keynotes. This contribution by EUROPT can also be seen in the context of our various engagement for optimization in data mining.

  • In the year 2005, EUROPT submitted to EURO a proposal for a new EURO Working Group “Operational Research for Development”. This proposal became approved by Executive Committee of EURO at its meeting during IFORS 2005 (Hawaii, USA, July 11-15, 2005, http://www.euro-rhodes2004.org/). Furthermore, we submitted to EURO a proposal for a new EURO Working Group “Operational Research in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine”, the proposal became accepted by EURO EC at the occasion of its meeting at the beginning of February 2006 in Bruxelles.

  • EJOR Special Issue "Challenges of Continuous Optimization in Theory and Applications",
    and our following two EJOR special issues appeared:

  • EJOR Special Issue “Advances in Continuous Optimization” and
  • EJOR Special Issue “Optimization in Data Mining”.

  • EURO Summer Institute "Optimization and Data Mining", ESI XXII, July 9-25, 2004 in Ankara (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/esi04/index.html), organized by EUROPT together with ORST (Turkish OR Society) and Institute of Applied Mathematics of METU, Ankara. At this event, four nowaday’s EUROPT members were among the invited ESI teachers.

  • In 2004, EUROPT actively participated at the EURO initiative "Branding OR"
    (please cf.http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/BrandingOR.doc).

  • Furthermore, in 2004-2005, EUROPT served for initiating and founding of the group "Young People for Operations Research in Developing Countries" (YORC) in Ankara, July 2004
    (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/Branding-OR-EUROPT-.pdf).

  • 4th EUROPT Workshop "Challenges of Continuous Optimization in Theory and Applications" on Rhodes, Greece, July 2-3, 2004
    (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/contopt04/index.html).

    here, the former coordinator and vice-coordinator, Tamás Terlaky and Tibor Illés, became Honorary Coordinators of EUROPT.

  • At EURO XX Conference 2004 in Rhodes, Greece, July 4-7, 2004: four valuable sessions and one semi-plenary lecture by a distinguished colleague organized by EUROPT (http://www.euro-rhodes2004.org/).

  • EUROPT was a supporter of XX EURO Summer Institute "Stochastic and Heuristic methods in Optimization" at the Baltics, Neringa, Lithuania, June 26 - August 6, 2003 (http://www.science.mii.lt/ESIXXI/). At this event, two EUROPT members were among the invited ESI teachers

  • EUROPT celebrated its 3rd annual meeting "Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization" in Istanbul, Turkey, July 4-5, 2003
    (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/contopt03/conf/index.html).

  • EUROPT organized a stream of sessions for the EURO/INFORMS, Joint International Meeting, in Istanbul, Turkey, July 6-10, 2003 (former link at
    (http://www.istanbul2003.org/).

  • The 1st and founding EUROPT workshop "2nd IPM Workshop" took place in Budapest, Hungary, July 13-14, 2000
    (http://www.cs.elte.hu/opres/IPM2000/workshop.html).

  • The EUROPT homepage was in Budapest firstly, then it moved to Ankara and is hosted now by Institute of Applied Mathematics of METU.

  • EUROPT organized a number of sessions and was represented also by two semi-plenary lectures at EURO-XVIII meeting in Rotterdam (http://www.euro2001.org/).

  • The 2nd EUROPT workshop "Smooth and Nonsmooth Optimization, Theory and Application" took place after the EURO-XVIII meeting in Rotterdam organized in 1991 (http://wwwhome.math.utwente.nl/%7Estillgj/snopt/index.html).

  • The EUROPT homepage is: http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/.

  • In average, once or twice in every week, EUROPT sends most recent information, announcements, invitations, also about study and job opportunities. This newsletter by e-mails goes out from the sender address (europt-l@metu.edu.trhref="europt-l@metu.edu.tr">europt-l@metu.edu.tr>) (since 2003).


Future activitiesIn 2012, we shall organize

  • the 10th EUROPT “Workshop Advances in Continuous Optimization” which will take place in Siauliai, Lituania on July 5-7, 2012

  • EURO XXV 2012 which will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania; OC Chair will be our EUROPT Managing Board member Prof. Leonidas Sakalauskas.

  • other EURO Working Groups and their activities,

  • the emerging research areas Continuous Optimization in Finance, Data Mining, Dynamical Systems, Inverse Problems and Optimal Control, and

  • the collaboration and friendship between national OR Societies of EURO, especially,

  • collaboration (official partnership) between ORST (Turkish OR Society) and GOR (German OR Society; GOR Representative in Turkey: Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber; please cf. (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/), Link “Newsletters and Letters”, Letters on Collaboration Fostered by EUROPT GOR-ORST Partnership;

  • “Seminar on Applied Mathematics in Life and Human Sciences and Economy” (weekly seminar) METU, Ankara (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/research/groups/compbio/index.html),

  • EUROPT homepage,

  • e-Newsletter,

  • Managing Board of EUROPT, and by

  • appointing our EUROPT Fellow 2012,

  • serving EURO and IFORS,

  • serving the national OR societies of EURO,

  • serving other EURO working groups (cf. above)

  • serving for the projects in Balaban and Kerkenes (Turkey) and of ALFA (Australia, for Africa),

  • and serving EJOR and the journals of national OR societies.

  • Indeed, we will publish and prepare various new special issues of these and further renowned journals.

    EUROPT is supported by EURO.

    • Publications
    • CEJOR , Feature Sample "OR and Environmental Management", at the Occasion of EURO 2009, 19, 4 (2011) 391-438, P. Letmathe, A. Tuma and G.-W. Weber, guest editors.

    • Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (CNSNS) 16, 12 (2011), Special Issue "Nonlinear, Fractional and Complex Systems with Discontinuity and Chaos" at the occasion of 3rd Conference on Nonlinear Science and Complexity (NSC 3rd), July 28-31, 2010, Ankara, Turkey, D. Baleanu and J.A. Tenreiro Machado, guest editors.

    • AIP Proceedings (American Institute of Physics) of PCO 2010, 3rd Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization, February 2-4, 2010, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia (ISBN: 978-983-44483-1-8).

    • OMS (Optimization - Methods and Software) Special Issue at the Occasion of Joint EUROPT-OMS Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, July 4-7, 2007. It appeared as OMS 25, 2 (2010). Here, the guest editors are R.S. Burachik (University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia) and M. Kocvara (University of Birmingham, UK).

    • DCDIS-B, Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems 17, 1b (Series B) 2010, special issue on Optimization and Dynamics in Finance, X. Sun, S. Zhu (both from Fudan University, Shanghai, P. R. China), Z. Li (Sun Yat-Sen University Guangzhou, P. R. China) and G.-W. Weber (METU, Ankara), guest editors,

    • Organizacija (Organization - Journal of Management, Information Systems and Human Resources) 43, 3 (May-June 2010), Recent Advances in Systems, Decision Making, Education and other Complex Problems, special issue at the occasion of EURO XXIII 2009), M. Kljajic (University of Maribor, Slovania), G.-W. Weber and H. Akar (both from METU, Ankara), guest editors,

    • AIP Conference Proceedings, Power Control and Optimization, Proceedings of the 3rd Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization, Gold Coast (Australia), 2–4 February 2010, Volume 1239 (2010), N. Barsoum (Curtin University, Malaysia), G.-W. Weber (METU, Ankara, Turkey) and P. Vasant (University Technology Petronas, Malaysia), editors, ISBN: 978-0-7354-0785-5.

    • ISI Proceedings, 24th Mini EURO Conference on Continuous Optimization and Information-Based Technologies in the Financial Sector, MEC EurOPT 2010 (June 23–26, 2010, Izmir, Turkey) Selected papers, R. Kasimbeyli, C. Dinçer, S. Özpeynirci (all from Izmir University of Economics) and L. Sakalauskas (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuania), editors.

    • TOP (the Operational Research journal of SEIO (Spanish Statistics and Operations Research Society), 18, 2 (December 2010), Special Issue on Papers presented at the XXII EURO MC "Continuous Optimization and Knowledge-Based Decisions" (Neringa, Lithuania, May 20-23, 2008), M. Dür, M.A. Lopez-Cerda and L. Sakalauskas, guest editors.

    • Organizacija (Organization - Journal of Management, Information Systems and Human Recent Advances in Systems, Decision Making, Education and other Complex Problems Resources) 43, 3 (May-June 2010) (at the occasion of EURO XXIII 2009), M. Kljajic, G.-W. Weber and H. Akar, guest editors

    • AIP Conference Proceedings , Power Control and Optimization, Volume 1239 (2010), Proceedings of the 3rd Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization, Gold Coast (Australia), 2–4 February 2010, N. Barsoum, G.-W. Weber and P. Vasant, editors (ISBN: 978-0-7354-0785-5).

    • Volume 22, Greenhill & Waterfront (publisher), Europe: Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Guilford, UK North-America: Montreal, Canada, ISBN / EAN 978-90-77171-34-9, Version 001, 16 pages (appeared in 2011), Nur 916, Book of Abstracts of State of the Art Workshop LISBON 2010 Operational Research — EUROMSC / EURO MCDA / EUROPT / EURO ORD / Ethics and OR, proceedings, D. DeTombe, C. Brugha, G.-W. Weber and F. Wenstop, editors.

    • State of the Art Workshop Societal Complexity 2009, EURO XXIII Conference Bonn, Germany, Europe, July 5, 2009, 23 European Conference on Operational Research, Volume 19, Greenhill & Waterfront (publisher), Europe: Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Guilford, UK, North-America: Montreal, Canada, ISBN/EAN 978-90-77171-29-5, Version 001 (small book), Nur 916, June 2009. The guest editors are D. DeTombe (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and G.-W. Weber (METU, Ankara, Turkey).

    • Optimization Special Issue “Continuous Optimization in Finance” of the journal Optimization. It appeared in Optimization 58, 3 (2009). Here, the guest editor is G.-W. Weber (METU, Ankara, Turkey).

    • KORSD-2009 ISI Proceedings at the occasion of 5th International Vilnius Conference and EURO-Mini Conference Knowledge-Based Technologies and OR Methodologies for Strategic Decisions of Sustainable Development (KORSD-2009), Vilnius, Lithuania, September 30 - October 3, 2009. The guest editors are The guest editors are M. Grasserbauer (Wien University of Technology, Austria), L. Sakalauskas (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius, Lithuania) together and E. Zavadskas (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University).

      By the guest editors, EUROPT was or is also engaged in the support of the following special issue:

    • EJOR Special Issue “OR for Better Management of Sustainable Development” at the Occasion of EURO XXI 2006. It appeared in EJOR 193, 3 (March 16, 2009). Here, the guest editors are U. Leopold-Wildburger (Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Austria), G.-W. Weber (METU, Ankara, Turkey) and M. Zachariasen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark).

    • Contributions of Workshop on Recent Developments in Financial Mathematics and Stochastic Calculus in Memory of Professor Hayri Körezlioglu (Ankara, Turkey, April, 25-26, 2008), on the CD of the workshop. Here, Ö. Ugur, D. Sezer G.-W. Weber (METU, Ankara, Turkey) were the guest editors.

    • ISI Proceedings at the Occasion of 20th Mini EURO Conference “Continuous Optimization and Knowlegde-Based Technogies”, Neringa, Lithuania, May 20-23, 2008. The guest editor is L. Sakalauskas (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius, Lithuania) together with G.-W. Weber (IAM, METU, Ankara, Turkey) and E.K. Zavadskas (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University).

    • INFORMATICA Special Issue at the Occasion of 20th Mini EURO Conference “Continuous Optimization and Knowlegde-Based Technogies”Neringa, Lithuania, May 20-23, 2008. Here, the guest editors are K. Miettinen (University of Jyväskylä), L. Sakalauskas (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius, Lithuania) et al..

    • TOP Special Issue “Continuous Optimization and Knowlede-Based Technogies” at the Occasion of 20th Mini EURO Conference “Continuous Optimization and Knowlegde-Based Technogies”, Neringa, Lithuania, May 20-23, 2008. Here, the guest editors are L. Sakalauskas (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius, Lithuania), M. Dür (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany) and M.A. Lopez (University of Alicante, Spain).

    • Technological and Economic Development of Economy (Baltic Journal on Sustainability) Special Issue at the Occasion of 20th Mini EURO Conference “Continuous Optimization and Knowlegde-Based Technogies” Neringa, Lithuania, May 20-23, 2008.

    • A sixth EJOR special issue called “Continuous Optimization in the Industry”, at the occasion on 17th EURO Mini Conference "Continuous Optimization in the Industry", Pécs, June 29 – July 1, 2005; it appeared as a feature cluster of European Journal of Operational Research 191, 3 (2008). Here, the guest editors are T. Illes (Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary), M. Lopez (University of Alicante, Spain), J. Teghem (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), T. Terlaky (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada), J. Vörös (University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary) and G.-W. Weber (METU, Ankara, Turkey).

    • Moreover, there is our CEJOR Special Issue “Advances in Continuous Optimization”, at the occasion of the “5th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization”, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 30 - July 1 2006. It appeared in CEJOR 16, 2 (2008). Here, the guest editors are O. Stein (University of Karlsruhe, Germany), G. Still (Twente University, Enschede, The Netherlands), T. Terlaky (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada) and G.-W. Weber (METU, Ankara, Turkey).

    • A fifth EJOR special issue called “Challenges of Continuous Optimization in Theory and Applications”, at the occasion on 4th EUROPT "Challenges of Continuous Optimization in Theory and Applications", Rhodes, July 2-3, 2004; it will appear as a feature cluster of European Journal of Operational Research 181, 3 (2007). The guest editors are M. Dür (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany), B. Karasözen (METU, Ankara), T. Terlaky (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada) and G.-W. Weber (METU, Ankara).

      By the guest editors, EUROPT was or is also engaged in the support of the following special issue:

    • CEJOR Special Issue “OR for Better Management of Sustainable Development” at the Occasion of EURO XXI 2006, CEJOR 15, 3 (2007). Here, the guest editors are S.W. Pickl (Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany), G.-W. Weber (METU, Ankara, Turkey) and M. Zachariasen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark).


    • MMOR Special Issue “Special Issue of MMOR Devoted to ESI 2006” at the Occasion of EURO Summer Institute, “Optimization Challenges in Engineering Methods, Software and Applications”, Wittenberg, Germany, August 18- September 2, 2006. Here, the guest editors are M. Dür (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany), P. Huhn (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany), K. Klamroth (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) and Ch. Tammer (University of Halle, Germany).

    • A third special issue of EJOR special issue became prepared on the 3rd EUROPT Workshop "Advances in Continuous Optimization", Istanbul, Turkey, July 4-5, 2003; it appeared as a feature cluster in European Journal of Operational Research 169, 3 (2006). Here, the guest editors are B. Karasözen (METU, Ankara), M. Pinar (Bilkent University, Ankara), T. Terlaky (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada) and G.-W. Weber (METU, Ankara).

    • A fourth EJOR special issue entitled “Optimization in Data Mining”, at the occasion of EURO Summer Institute “Optimization and Data Mining”, ESI XXII, July 9-25, 2004 in Ankara, July 9-25, 2004; it appeared as a feature cluster of European Journal of Operational Research 173, 3 (2006). The guest editors are B. Karasözen (METU, Ankara), A. Rubinov (University of Ballarat, Australia), J. Teghem (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) and G.-W. Weber (METU, Ankara).

    • A second special issue of EJOR featuring the best contributions to 2nd EUROPT workshop "Smooth and Nonsmooth Optimization Workshop", Rotterdam, The Netherlands, July 12-13, 2001, became published as a Feature Cluster on Smooth and Nonsmooth Optimization: EJOR 157, Issue 1, 16 August 2004. The guest editors are J. Brinkhuis (Erasmus University, The Netherlands), J.G.B. Frenk (Erasmus University, The Netherlands), T.Illes (Eötvös University Budapest, Hungary), G. Still (University of Twente, The Netherlands), T. Terlaky (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada) and
      G.-W. Weber (METU, Ankara, Turkey).

    • A first special issue of EJOR containing written versions of several excellent featured talks of the IPM-2000 workshop, that was organized as our 1st EUROPT workshop, appeared as EJOR 143, Issue 2, 2002. The guest editors of this special issue were T. Illés (Eötvös University Budapest, Hungary), T. Rapcsák (MTA SZTAKI, Budapest, Hungary) and T. Terlaky (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada).

    • EUROPT thanks all friends who assisted us with their service and collaboration. Special thanks are due to

      Marco A. Lopez-Cerda (previous EUROPT Chair and MB member),
      Domingos Cardoso (previous EUROPT Newsletter Editor and MB member),
      Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber (previous EUROPT Webpage Coordinator and MB member)

      The Managing Board of EUROPT
      http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/:
      Kaisa Miettinen, Mirjam Dür, Janos D. Pinter, Leonidas Sakalauskas, Oliver Stein, Tatiana Tchemisova


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