EUROPT, Continuous Optimization Working Group of EURO

EUROPT, Continuous Optimization Working Group of EURO
Formation 2000
Legal status Working group
Purpose To disseminate state-of-the-art knowledge and to support research in continuous optimization
Region
Europe
Parent organization
 Association of European Operational Research Societies
Website europt.iam.metu.edu.tr//

The Continuous Optimization Working Group of EURO (also, EUROPT) is a working group whose objective is to promote original research in the field of continuous optimization at the European level. EUROPT is the unique European working group on continuous optimization. It is one of the largest working groups of EURO. It includes most of European researchers working on continuous optimization. Continuous optimization includes linear programming, convex optimization, global optimization [1] [2]

History

EUROPT is one of the working groups of EURO, the Association of European Operational Research Societies. The Group was founded in 2000 in occasion of the EURO XVII Conference in Budapest.

Governance

The group has a Managing Board. The actual composition (2016-2018) of the Managing Board is:

Past chairs who currently keep serving the working group as honorary chairs are:

In the past the working group has been chaired also by

Membership

The group is suitable for people who are presently engaged in Continuous Optimization, either in theoretical aspects or in business, industry or public administration applications. Currently (2016), the group has over 1200 members.

Fellowship

Each year one fellowship is awarded to an outstanding researcher in the field. The winner is invited to deliver a plenary lecture at the annual workshop of the group. Past winners include Yaroslav D. Sergeyev,[3] Panos Pardalos,[4] Immanuel Bomze, Joaquim João Júdice, Juan Enrique Martinez-Legaz, Yurii Nesterov, Adil Bagirov, Cornelis Roos, Georg Still and Alexander Rubinov.

Conferences

EUROPT holds conferences on a regular basis (once a year during summer, usually just before the main EURO conference).

The most recent Workshops of EUROPT have been:

The 15th EUROPT workshop will be held in Montréal, Canada, on July 12–14, 2017 www.gerad.ca/colloques/europt2017.

Publications

In most cases, the annual conference is followed by peer reviewed special issue(s) of an international journal, presenting a selection of the contributions presented at the meeting. Recent special issues:

A newsletter is emailed to all members usually every three months. Recent newsletters are available:

References

  1. ↑ EUROPT working group on EURO website
  2. ↑ Official page of the EUROPT working group
  3. ↑ Professor Yaroslav Sergeyev is elected EUROPT Fellow for 2016
  4. ↑ Pardalos elected EUROPT fellow
  5. ↑ L. Palagi, F. Schoen, Optimization Methods and Software, 30(2), 251-252, 2015, doi:10.1080/10556788.2015.996437
  6. ↑ T. Tchemisova, A. Freitas, A. Plakhov, G.-W. Weber, Optimization, 64(6), 1363-1365, 2015, doi:10.1080/02331934.2015.1027530
  7. ↑ G.-W. Weber, A. Kruger, J. E. Martínez-Legaz, B. Mordukhovich, L. Sakalauskas, Optimization, 63(1), 1-5, 2014, doi:10.1080/02331934.2014.877638
  8. ↑ A. Bagirov, K. Miettinen, G.-W. Weber, Journal of Global Optimization, 60(1), 1-3, 2014, doi:10.1007/s10898-014-0216-9
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