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ISMP 2015 in Pittsburgh
by Fatma Kilinc-Karzan 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Announcement: ISMP 2015 in Pittsburgh www.ismp2015.org The 22nd International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP 2015) will take place in Pittsburgh, PA USA, July 12-17, 2015. ISMP is the world congress of mathematical optimization where scientists as well as industrial users of mathematical optimization meet in order to present the most recent developments and results and to discuss new challenges from theory and practice. Plenary are semi-plenary speakers for ISMP have been announced: Plenary speakers Laurent El Ghaoui, University of California, Berkeley Jim Geelen, University of Waterloo, Canada Daniel Kuhn, EPFL, Switzerland Dan Spielman, Yale University Steve Wright, University of Wisconsin Semi-plenary speakers Sam Burer, University of Iowa Roberto Cominetti, University of Chile, Chile Michele Conforti, University of Padova, Italy Tammy Kolda, Sandia Labs Andrea Lodi, University of Bologna, Italy Asu Ozdaglar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Werner Roemisch, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Frank Vallentin, University of Koeln, Germany Pascal van Hentenryck, NICTA, Australia Yaxian Yuan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Conference Venue The Symposium will take place at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown Hotel located at the confluence of Pittsburgh’s famed Three Rivers. Important Dates The abstract submission will open in the Fall of 2014 and the conference registration will open before December 2014. More details (including important dates, registration rates and hotel prices etc.) will be soon available on the conference website at www.ismp2015.org. We are looking forward to welcoming you next year in Pittsburgh! The ISMP Organizing Committee -- Fatma Kilinc Karzan Assistant Professor of Operations Research Tepper School of Business Carnegie Mellon University fkilinc(a)andrew.cmu.edu (+1) 412 268 9198

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EJCO Special Issue on Computational Optimization Methods in Telecommunications
by Bernard Fortz 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

EURO Journal on Computational Optimization Special Issue on Computational Optimization Methods in Telecommunications Following the INFORMS Telecommunications Conference held in Lisbon, Portugal last March 2-4, 2014, a special issue of the EURO Journal on Computational Optimization (EJCO) dedicated to "Computational Optimization Methods in Telecommunications" will be edited by Bernard Fortz (bernard.fortz(a)ulb.ac.be) and Luis Gouveia (legouveia(a)fc.ul.pt) The deadline for the paper submission has been extended to July 15, 2014. We plan on having the review of all submitted papers by December 31, 2014. To submit a paper, please visit https://www.editorialmanager.com/ejco/ and choose S.I.: Computational Optimization Methods in Telecommunications as Article Type. Best regards, Bernard Fortz Luis Gouveia

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CFP: RNDM 2014 Barcelona - Reliable Networks Design and Modeling
by jrak＠pg.gda.pl 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pdf version of Call for papers: http://www.rndm.pl/2014/CFP_RNDM2014.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Extended versions of top RNDM 2014 papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of Networks journal (Wiley) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers RNDM 2014 6th International Workshop on Reliable Networks Design and Modeling November 17-19, 2014, Barcelona, Spain http://www.rndm.pl technically co-sponsored by: ---------------------------- IEEE Communications Society IFIP TC6 WG 6.10 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission web page: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17117 --------------------------------------------------------------------- S2CN 2014 Workshop(Survivable Content-Oriented and Cloud-Ready Networking) co-located with RNDM 2014: http://www.rndm.pl/2014/S2CN/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- RNDM has been established as a single-track workshop each time attracting world-class participants from both academia and industry working in the area of reliable networks design and modeling. RNDM 2014 follows the success of the first five events that took place in St. Petersburg (2009, 2012), Moscow (2010), Budapest (2011), and Almaty (2013) accordingly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The topics cover, but are not necessarily limited to the following: - businesses aspects of resilience in content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - coordination of multilayer survivability operations, - design of dedicated/shared backup paths, - end-to-end resilience, - energy efficiency in survivable networks, - energy efficiency in survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - fast service recovery, - fault and disruption tolerance evaluation, - fault management and control in survivable networks, - Future Internet reliability, - green networks reliability, - impact on detection accuracy and latency on survivability, - management issues in reliable networks design, - management of survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - methods for measurement, evaluation, or validation of survivability, - metrics of reliable communications, - modeling different types of failures, - modeling malicious behavior or attacks on networks, - models and algorithms of survivable networks design and modeling, - multilayer networks survivability, - network dependability, - network reliability vs. economy-related issues, - network reliability standardization aspects, - new and emerging threats in cloud computing and content-oriented networks, - optical networks survivability, - p-cycles and other protection structures, - planning and optimization of survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - planning and optimization of reliable networks, - QoS and QoE in reliable communications, - restoration strategies under different types of failures, - reliable networks performance evaluation, - reliability and resilience of in data centers, - reliability of wireless-wired communications, - reliability of wireless sensor networks, - reliability of multi-domain communications, - reliability of emerging communication technologies, - reliability of vehicle-to-vehicle communications, - resilient cloud computing architectures and solutions, - resilient content-oriented networks architectures and solutions, - role of redundancy in survivable networks, - security-related issues in reliable networks, - self-regenerative networks, - service-oriented survivability, - service resilience differentiation, - simulation/emulation techniques for network resilience in content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - Software-Defined Networks (SDN) for survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networking, - survivability of anycast and multicast networks, - survivability of converged services (VoIP, IP-TV, Mobile TV), - survivability of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), - survivability of grid and distributed computing systems, - survivability of P2P and overlay systems, - survivability under traffic grooming in multilayer networks, - theory and methods of reliability and availability, - use of self-healing techniques in surviving attacks, - wireless access networks survivability, - wireless mesh networks survivability The authors are encouraged to submit via EDAS (https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17117) full papers describing original, previously unpublished research results, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in the area of reliable networks design and modeling. All submitted papers will be reviewed. The total length of a paper should not exceed 7 pages formatted according to the two-column template. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. The Best Paper Award will be given. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: - Paper submission deadline: July 20, 2014 - Notification deadline: Sept. 15, 2014 - Camera-ready: Sept. 30, 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------- RNDM 2014 Organization: ----------------------- General Chair Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Co-chairs Gangxiang (Steven) Shen, Soochow University (CN) James P.G. Sterbenz, The University of Kansas (US), Lancaster University (UK) Steering Commiittee Maurice Gagnaire, Telecom ParisTech (FR) Josep Sole Pareta, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (ES) Mario Pickavet, Ghent University - IBBT (BE) Michal Pioro, Warsaw University of Technology (PL), Lund University (SE) Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) James P.G. Sterbenz, The University of Kansas (US), Lancaster Univ. (UK) Publicity Co-chairs Teresa Gomes, University of Coimbra (PT) Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa (CA) Sun-il Kim, University of Alabama in Huntsville (US) William Liu, Auckland University of Technology (NZ) Wojciech Molisz, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Pablo Romero, Universidad de La Republica (UY) Hideaki Yoshino, Nippon Institute of Technology (JP) Jie Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CN) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Program Committee Nail Akar, Bilkent University (TR) Achim Autenrieth, ADVA Optical Networking SE (DE) Peter Babarczi, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU) Thomas Bauschert, Chemnitz University of Technology (DE) Walid Ben-Ameur, Telecom SudParis (FR) Eusebi Calle, University of Girona (ES) Cicek Cavdar, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE) Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology (PL) Egemen Cetinkaya, Missouri University of Science and Technology (US) Tibor Cinkler, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU) John Doucette, TRLabs, University of Alberta (CA) George Ellinas, University of Cyprus (CY) Jaafar Elmirghani, University of Leeds (UK) Luigi Fratta, Politecnico do Milano (IT) Maurice Gagnaire, Telecom ParisTech (FR) Alessio Giorgetti, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (IT) Teresa Gomes, University of Coimbra (PT) Eric Gourdin, Orange Labs (FR) Ece Guran Schmidt, Middle East Technical University (TR) Lei Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN) Anwar Haque, Bell (CA) Hiroshi Hasegawa, Nagoya University (JP) Bjarne Helvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO) Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo (CA) Yutaka Ishibashi, Nagoya Institute of Technology (JP) Brigitte Jaumard, Concordia University (CA) Jason Jue, University of Texas, Dallas (US) Noriaki Kamiyama, NTT (JP) Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa (CA) Sun-il Kim, University of Alabama in Huntsville (US) Arie Koster, RWTH Aachen (DE) Igor Kotenko, SPIIRAS (RU) Darli Mello, University of Brasilia (BR) Wojciech Molisz, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Annalisa Morea, Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs(FR) Dritan Nace, Universite de Technologie de Compiegne (FR) Sema Oktug, Istanbul Technical University (TR) Mario Pickavet, Ghent University - iMinds (BE) Eleni Palkopoulou, CISCO (GR) Dimitri Papadimitriou, Alcatel-Lucent Bell (BE) Michal Pioro, Warsaw University of Technology (PL), Lund University (SE) Marco Quagliotti, Telecom Italia (IT) Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Pablo Romero, Universidad de La Republica (UY) Sarah Ruepp, Technical University of Denmark (DK) Samir Sebbah, Concordia University (CA) Marcus Schoeller, NEC (DE) Arun Somani, Iowa State University (US) Salvatore Spadaro, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - UPC (ES) Dimitri Staessens, Ghent University - iMinds (BE) Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University (US) Marco Tacca, University of Texas, Dallas (US) Janos Tapolcai, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU) Wouter Tavernier, Ghent University - iMinds (BE) David Tipper, Pittsburgh University (US) Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology (GR) Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano (IT) Kishor Trivedi, Duke University (US) Jean Philippe Vasseur, CISCO (FR) Luis Velasco, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (ES) Dominique Verchere, Alcatel-Lucent (FR) Krzysztof Wajda, AGH University of Science and Technology (PL) Krzysztof Walkowiak, Wroclaw University of Technology (PL) Roland Wessaely, atesio GmbH (DE) Lena Wosinska, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE) Hideaki Yoshino, Nippon Institute of Technology (JP) Hongfang Yu, Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology of China (CN) Jie Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CN) Wen-De Zhong, Nanyang Technological University (SG) Mateusz Zotkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology (PL)

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3rd call for contributions: MOPTA-2014
by Boris Defourny 07 Jun '14

07 Jun '14

With apologies for cross-postings: ============================================== THIRD CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: 14th MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 13-15, 2014 http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/ ============================================== The 14th annual Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA) Conference will be held at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, August 13-15, 2014. We cordially invite you to attend and to submit your abstract for a contributed oral presentation. Important dates, abstract submission, registration: http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/ Confirmed plenary speakers: * Miguel Anjos (École Polytechnique de Montréal) * Gérard Cornuéjols (Carnegie Mellon University) * Darinka Dentcheva (Stevens Institute of Technology) * Philip Gill (University of California, San Diego) * Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research and New York University) * Asu Ozdaglar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) * Warren B. Powell (Princeton University) * Andreas Wächter (Northwestern University) Confirmed invited session organizers: * Amir Ali Ahmadi (IBM Watson Research Center) * Tsvetan Asamov (Princeton University): Stochastic search and approximate dynamic programming * Frank Curtis (Lehigh University): Algorithms for large-scale nonlinear optimization * Hongbo Dong (Washington State University): Convex relaxations for nonconvex problems * Peter Frazier (Cornell University): Learning and optimization of expensive functions * Daniel Jiang (Princeton University): Stochastic optimization in energy * Fatma Kilinc-Karzan (Carnegie Mellon University): Convexification of nonconvex quadratic problems * Abdullah Konak (Pennsylvania State University): Hybrid optimization * Nathan Krislock (Northern Illinois University) * Qihang Lin (University of Iowa): Stochastic first order methods * Gudimella S.R. Murthy (Indian Statistical Institute): Industrial OR applications: Live case studies * Raghu Pasupathy (Virginia Tech) * Sebastian Pokutta (Georgia Institute of Technology): Information theory and optimization * Rommel G. Regis (Saint Joseph's University): Black-box and derivative-free optimization * Andrzej Ruszczynski (Rutgers University): Risk-averse optimization * Katya Scheinberg (Lehigh University) * Larry Snyder (Lehigh University) * Martin Takac (University of Edinburgh) * Robert Vanderbei (Princeton University): Optimization algorithms for big data problems * Natasha Vermaak (Lehigh University): Topological optimization and advanced manufacturing * Luis Zuluaga (Lehigh University): Smart grids ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 13, 2014. EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: July 11, 2014. We hope to welcome you in Bethlehem, PA! Organizing Committee: Tamás Terlaky Boris Defourny (Chair) Frank E. Curtis (SIAM representative) Katya Scheinberg Ted K. Ralphs Luis F. Zuluaga Robert H. Storer Aurélie C. Thiele Larry V. Snyder Eugene Perevalov Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Lehigh University 200 W Packer Ave Bethlehem PA 18015 Fax: 610-758-4886

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INFORMS Telecommunications Conference - Special issue of EJCO
by Bernard Fortz 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

As announced in the INFORMS Telecommunications Conference held in Lisbon, Portugal last March 2-4, 2014, there will be a special issue of EJCO dedicated to the conference. The topic for this special issue is "Computational Optimization Methods in Telecommunications". We invite every participant at the conference, to submit a full paper corresponding to his/her oral presentation. The deadline for the paper submission is June 30, 2014. We plan on having the review of all submitted papers by December 31, 2014. The Guest Editors for this special issue are Bernard Fortz (bernard.fortz(a)ulb.ac.be) Université Libre de Bruxelles Luis Gouveia (legouveia(a)fc.ul.pt) CIO, Unversidade de Lisboa

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6th AIMMS/MOPTA International Optimization Modeling Competition
by Alberto J. Lamadrid 07 May '14

07 May '14

================================================= LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: 6th AIMMS/MOPTA International Optimization Modeling Competition (http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition/) ================================================= Dear Colleagues, There is still time to encourage your students to participate in the sixth AIMMS/MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition. The competition is jointly organized by the conference organizers of MOPTA (http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/) and AIMMS (http://www.aimms.com) Finalists are expected to attend and present their results at the 2014 MOPTA Conference to be held August 13-15, 2014 at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA. Teams of at most three students can participate. The team leader has to be a graduate student, though the other members of the team can be advanced undergraduate students. Each member of the team must be registered as a full-time student at a recognized educational institution during the Spring term of the 2013-2014 academic year. Students with a background in optimization, regardless of their actual field of study, are eligible. Collaboration between students from different departments is strongly encouraged. Each team must declare a team advisor with which the team may consult about the problem and their solution. It is the team advisor’s responsibility to ensure that the students have appropriate knowledge for the competition. The team advisor should not be involved as a participant in the solution process. As the conference is international, so is the competition. Teams from all over the world can participate, as long as at least one team member can come to the conference, should the team make it to the final round. The official language of the competition is English. The competition problem has been posted; please visit: http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition/ for a description of the problem and further details. All teams must *register* for the competition in order to participate. Important Dates: Registration Due: 13 June 2014 (but please register as soon as you start work on the problem) Solutions Due: 13 June 2014 Finalists Chosen: 4 July 2014 Conference Begins: 13 August 2014 For questions, please contact Luis F. Zuluaga, luis.zuluaga(a)lehigh.edu and Alberto J. Lamadrid, ajlamadrid(a)lehigh.edu ================================================= Alberto J. Lamadrid Assistant Professor of Economics Engineering and Economics of Electricity Research Group (E3RG) Rauch Business Center 451 Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA 18015, U.S.A. +1 212.496.2492 http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/ajlamadrid/

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Announcement and CfP --- MOPTA 2014. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, August 13-15, 2014
by Boris Defourny 05 May '14

05 May '14

============================================== SECOND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: 14th MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 13-15, 2014 http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/ ============================================== Dear Friends and Colleagues With apologies for cross-postings... We cordially invite you to contribute to the fourteenth annual "Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications" (MOPTA) conference, organized at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, August 13-15, 2014. MOPTA aims at bringing together a diverse group of people from both discrete and continuous optimization, working on both theoretical and applied aspects. There will be invited plenary talks from distinguished speakers as well as organized sessions and contributed talks, spread over three days. Our target is to provide a diverse set of exciting new developments from different areas of optimization research while at the same time providing a setting which will allow increased interaction among the participants. We aim to bring together researchers from both the theoretical and applied communities in the framework of a medium-scale event who do not usually have the chance to interact in larger meetings. We welcome contributed talks, and we are also very interested in hearing from people who could organize a session centered around one of their topics of expertise. MOPTA sessions have 3 speakers, with 30 mins per presentation including Q&A's. Speakers will be kindly asked to submit their abstract on the MOPTA website. The deadline for abstract submission is June 13th. Please contact Boris Defourny (defourny(a)lehigh.edu) if you would like to organize a session for MOPTA. Boris Defourny. Organizing Committee Chair See more at http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta ============================================== SECOND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: 14th MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 13-15, 2014 http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/ ============================================== The fourteenth annual Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA) Conference will be held at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, on August 13-15 (Wednesday to Friday), 2014. Confirmed plenary speakers: * Miguel Anjos (École Polytechnique de Montréal) * Gérard Cornuéjols (Carnegie Mellon University) * Darinka Dentcheva (Stevens Institute of Technology) * Philip Gill (University of California, San Diego) * Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research and New York University) * Asu Ozdaglar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) * Warren Powell (Princeton University) * Andreas Wächter (Northwestern University) ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 13, 2014. Current conference and program information is available at: http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta We hope to welcome you in Bethlehem, PA! Organizing Committee: Boris Defourny (Chair) Tamás Terlaky Frank E. Curtis (SIAM representative) Katya Scheinberg Ted K. Ralphs Luis F. Zuluaga Robert H. Storer Aurélie C. Thiele Larry V. Snyder Eugene Perevalov Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Lehigh University 200 W Packer Ave Bethlehem PA 18015 Fax: 610-758-4886

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6th AIMMS/MOPTA International Optimization Modeling Competition
by Luis Zuluaga 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

================================================= SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: 6th AIMMS/MOPTA International Optimization Modeling Competition (http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition/) ================================================= Dear Colleagues, It is with great pleasure that we announce the sixth AIMMS/MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition. The competition is jointly organized by the conference organizers of MOPTA (http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/) and AIMMS (http://www.aimms.com) Finalists are expected to attend and present their results at the 2014 MOPTA Conference to be held August 13-15, 2014 at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA. Teams of at most three students can participate. The team leader has to be a graduate student, though the other members of the team can be advanced undergraduate students. Each member of the team must be registered as a full-time student at a recognized educational institution during the Spring term of the 2013-2014 academic year. Students with a background in optimization, regardless of their actual field of study, are eligible. Collaboration between students from different departments is strongly encouraged. Each team must declare a team advisor with which the team may consult about the problem and their solution. It is the team advisor's responsibility to ensure that the students have appropriate knowledge for the competition. The team advisor should not be involved as a participant in the solution process. As the conference is international, so is the competition. Teams from all over the world can participate, as long as at least one team member can come to the conference, should the team make it to the final round. The official language of the competition is English. The competition problem has been posted; please visit: http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition/ for a description of the problem and further details. All teams must *register* for the competition in order to participate. Important Dates: Registration Due: 13 June 2014 (but please register as soon as you start work on the problem) Solutions Due: 13 June 2014 Finalists Chosen: 4 July 2014 Conference Begins: 13 August 2014 For questions, please contact Luis F. Zuluaga, luis.zuluaga(a)lehigh.edu and Alberto J. Lamadrid, ajlamadrid(a)lehigh.edu ================================================= Luis F. Zuluaga, Assistant Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering Lehigh University

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IFORS 2014 Barcelona - Telecommunications and Network Optimization stream
by Bernard Fortz 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

Dear friends and colleagues, We are organizing the stream Network Optimization of the forthcoming 20th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies that will be held from 13-18 July 2014 in the city of Barcelona. http://www.ifors2014.org/ The stream is organized by the European Network Optimization Group (ENOG). If you would like to submit a paper for the stream, please visit http://www.euro-online.org/conf/ifors2014/ and use invitation code ce75a554 The deadline for abstract submission is January 31, 2014. If (even better!) you would like to organize a full session of 3-4 papers, please contact one of us directly. Best regards, Walid Ben-Ameur, Bernard Fortz, Luis Gouveia

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6th AIMMS/MOPTA International Optimization Modeling Competition
by Luis Zuluaga 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

================================================= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: 6th AIMMS/MOPTA International Optimization Modeling Competition (http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition/) ================================================= Dear Colleagues, It is with great pleasure that we announce the sixth AIMMS/MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition. The competition is jointly organized by the conference organizers of MOPTA (http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/) and Paragon Decision Technology (http://www.aimms.com) Finalists are expected to attend and present their results at the 2014 MOPTA Conference to be held August 13-15, 2014 at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA. Teams of at most three students can participate. The team leader has to be a graduate student, though the other members of the team can be advanced undergraduate students. Each member of the team must be registered as a full-time student at a recognized educational institution during the Spring term of the 2013-2014 academic year. Students with a background in optimization, regardless of their actual field of study, are eligible. Collaboration between students from different departments is strongly encouraged. Each team must declare a team advisor with which the team may consult about the problem and their solution. It is the team advisor’s responsibility to ensure that the students have appropriate knowledge for the competition. The team advisor should not be involved as a participant in the solution process. As the conference is international, so is the competition. Teams from all over the world can participate, as long as at least one team member can come to the conference, should the team make it to the final round. The official language of the competition is English. The competition problem has been posted; please visit: http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition/ for a description of the problem and further details. All teams must *register* for the competition in order to participate. Important Dates: Registration Due: 13 June 2014 (but please register as soon as you start work on the problem) Solutions Due: 13 June 2014 Finalists Chosen: 4 July 2014 Conference Begins: 13 August 2014 For questions, please contact Luis F. Zuluaga, luis.zuluagas(a)lehigh.edu and Alberto J. Lamadrid, ajlamadrid(a)lehigh.edu ================================================= Luis F. Zuluaga, Assistant Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering Lehigh University

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