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EWG ECCO, European Chapter on combinatorial optimization
| Name | EWG ECCO, European Chapter on combinatorial optimization |
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| Announcement | The 26th ECCO Conference will take place in Paris in 2013. |
| Website | http://ecco.grenoble-inp.fr |
| 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. |
| Coordinator | Silvano Martello silvano.martello@unibo.it University of Bologna DEIS Viale Risorgimento 2 40136 Bologna Italy Phone: +39 051 2093022 Fax: +39 051 2093073 Url: http://www.or.deis.unibo.it/staff_pages/martello/cvitae.html |
| 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. |
| Members | More than 1000 members. Approximately 100 participants attend each meeting. |
| Past activities | The ECCO XXIV conference was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on May 30 - June 1, 2011. Scientific Committee and Organizing Committee Co-Chairs: Leen Stougie, Anton Volgenant Plenary speakers: Nicole Megow, Martin Skutella, Gerhardwilhelm Weber, Gerhard Woeginger. |
| Future activities | The ECCO XXV conference will take place in Antalya, Turkey, on April 26 - 28, 2012. http://www.eccoxxv.org/?page_id=166 Call-for-papers: http://ecco.grenoble-inp.fr/DATA/ECCOXXV-2012-CfP.pdf Abstract submission deadline: February 1st, 2012. Notification of acceptance: Februaty 10, 2012. Earlier registration deadline: March 10, 2012. Author registration deadline (for inclusion in the program): March 20, 2012. The Call for Papers flyer is here. Publication Opportunity : Participants of ECCO 2012 will have the opportunity to submit papers to a special issue on Advances in Combinatorial Optimization and Related Topics of the journal Optimization, published by Taylor & Francis. Preliminary list of Plenary Speakers: Miguel F. ANJOS, École Polytechnique de Montréal Bernard RIES, LAMSADE - Université Paris-Dauphine John SHAWE-TAYLOR, University College, London Program Committee : Refail KASIMBEYLI (Co-Chair), Gerhard-Wilhelm WEBER (Co-Chair), Jacek BLAZEWICZ, Domingos Moreira CARDOSO, Van-Dat CUNG, Alain HERTZ, Silvano MARTELLO, Xiaoling SUN, Paolo TOTH. Organizing Committee : Refail Kasimbeyli (Co-chair), Arslan Örnek (Co-chair), Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber (Co-Chair), Özgür Deniz, Türsel Eliiyi, Ugur Eliiyi, Erdinç Öner, Özgür Özpeynirci, Selin Özpeynirci, Zeynep Sargut. Basak Akteke-Öztürk, Sinan Gürel, Yesim Aydin Son, Kasirga Yildirak, Gürkan Üstünkar, Zeynep Alparslan Gök, Ahmet Tokgözlü. Information Contacts: Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber (co-chair) gweber@metu.edu.tr Zeynep Sargut zeynep.sargut@ieu.edu.tr |
| Publications | Special issues related to ECCO meetings: J. Blazewicz, V. Boljuncic, S. Martello and J. Skorin-Kapov (eds.) Combinatorial Optimization, Journal of Scheduling 14, 3, 2011 H. Vladimirou and S. Martello (eds.) Developments in combinatorial optimization, Computational Optimization and Applications 48, 2, 2011. 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: Special issue on EURO Summer Institute on Combinatorial Optimisation European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 83, Number 2, 1995. |
| 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. |
| Last modification | 2011-11-18 |
