International Conference EURO Mini Conference

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• International Conference EURO Mini Conference
• Continuous Optimization and Knowledge Based
  Technologies
• EurOPT-2008
• May 20-23, 2008,
• Neringa, LITHUANIA

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International Conference EURO mini-
COnferenceContinuous Optimization and Knowledge
Based TechnologiesEurOPT-2008, May 20-23, 2008,
Neringa, LITHUANIA
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Organised by

• European Association of Operational Research
  Societies (EURO)
• Institute of Mathematics and Informatics,
  Vilnius, Lithuania
• Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius,
  Lithuania
• Lithuanian Operational Research Society (LitORS)
• EURO Working Group on Continuous Optimization
  (EUROPT)
• German OR Society (GOR).

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In cooperation with

• European Chapter on Metaheuristics (EUME)
• European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization
  (ECCO)
• IBM Europe (Zurich)
• Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

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Supported by

• European Association of Operational Research
  Societies (EURO)
• EURO Working Group on Continuous Optimization
  (EUROPT)
• German OR Society (GOR)
• IBM Europe (Zurich)
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  (SIAM)
• European Office of Aerospace Research
  Development (EOARD)
• Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of
  Lithuania

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Preceded by ESI XXI
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Preceded by EUME-2005
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Preceded by EUME-2005
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International Conference EURO mini
conferenceContinuous Optimization and Knowledge
Based TechnologiesEurOPT-2008, May 20-23, 2008,
Neringa, LITHUANIA

• 227 authors from 28 countries submitted to
  Conference more 200 abstracts
• Programme Committee accepted 166 abstracts for
  publishing in the Volume of Abstracts.
• 112 papers have been submitted for Proceedings
• Programme Committee selected 84 papers for
  publishing in the Volume of ISI Proceedings
  delivered during the Conference

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International Conference EURO mini-
conferenceContinuous Optimization and
Knowledge-Based TechnologiesEurOPT-2008, May
20-23, 2008, Neringa, LITHUANIA

• 123 participants from 24 countries have been
  arrived to Neringa
• 112 contributed presentations have been delivered
  during 28 parallel contributed sessions
• 7 invited lectures and 1 EUROPT invited lecture
  have been delivered during 8 plenary sessions

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International Conference EURO mini-
conferenceContinuous Optimization and
Knowledge-Based TechnologiesEurOPT-2008, May
20-23, 2008, Neringa, LITHUANIA
Distribution of attended EUROPT-2008 participants
by countries
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tinuous Optimization and Knowledge Based
TechnologiesEurOPT-2008, May 20-23, 2008,
Neringa, LITHUANIA
Invited speakers and lectures

• John Shawe-Taylor (University College London,
  UK)              PAC-Bayes theory of
  Generalisation
• Inderjit Dhillon (University of Texas at Austin,
  USA)              Machine Learning with Bregman
  Divergences
• Jerome Stein (Brown University,
  USA)              A tale of two debt crises
  stochastic optimal control analysis     
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• Marta Szachniuk and Jacek Blazewicz (Poznan
  University of Technology, Poland)      
• OR in RNA structure analysis
• Yves Smeers (Catholique University of Louvain,
  Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)              
• Optimization and knowledge-based
  technologies in Electricity Markets
•  Mirjam Dür (Darmstadt University of Techology,
  Germany)              Discrete Nonlinear
  Optimization in a Conic Programming Framework
• Kaisa Miettinen (University of Jyvaskyla,
  Finland)              Multi-Objective
  Optimization and Multi-Criteria Decision Making 

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-conferenceContinuous Optimization and
Knowledge Based TechnologiesEurOPT-2008, May
20-23, 2008, Neringa, LITHUANIA
EUROPT Fellow invited lecture

• Kees Roos (Delft University of Technology, The
  Netherlands)
• Computing safe dike heights at minimal costs

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International Conference EURO mini-conferenceCon
tinuous Optimization and Knowledge Based
TechnologiesEurOPT-2008, May 20-23, 2008,
Neringa, LITHUANIA
Publications

• The special issues of papers strongly selected
  from those presented during EUROPT-2008 will be
  published in
• TOP (An Official Journal of the Spanish Society
  of Statistics and Operations Research, ISSN
  1134-5764)
• Technological and Economic Development of Economy
  (Baltic Journal on Sustainability), ISSN
  1392-8619
• print / ISSN 1822-3613
• Informatica (indexed/abstracted in the ISI Web of
  Science, ISSN 0868-4952).
• Deadline for submission of paper to special
  issues
• July 15, 2008

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International Conference EURO mini
conferenceContinuous Optimization and Knowledge
Based TechnologiesEurOPT-2008, May 20-23, 2008,
Neringa, LITHUANIA

• The EURO MC EUROPT 2008 held as
• a successfull high level scientific conference
  and show a big vitality of our group !!!
• Many newcomers introduced on the international
  stage.
• Renowned experts celebrated and honored.
• Precious scientific impulses exchanged.
• New research projects started.
• Friendship between participants initialized and
  intensified.
• Friendship between nations deepened.
• A great hospitality and generosity enjoyed and
  care experienced.

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International Conference EURO mini-
conferenceContinuous Optimization and Knowledge
Based TechnologiesEurOPT-2008, May 20-23, 2008,
Neringa, LITHUANIA

• Initiative groups have been established to create
  national OR societies in
• Estonia (J. Lellep, T. Riisma, O. Vaarmann)
• Ukraine (V. Norkin, O. Makarenko, D. Krushinsky)

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International Conference EURO mini-
conferenceContinuous Optimization and Knowledge
Based TechnologiesEurOPT-2008, May 20-23, 2008,
Neringa, LITHUANIA
Welcome to Lithuania !

• LitORS kindly invites to
• XIII International Conference Applied Stochastic
  Models and Data Analysis (ASMDA-2009), June
  30-July 3, 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania
• 5th International Vilnius Conference on
  Sustainable Development (awaited as EURO Mini
  Conference) Knowledge-Based Technologies and OR
  methodologies for Strategic Decisions of
  Sustainable Development (KORSD-2009), September
  30 October 3, 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania

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International Conference (EURO mini-
conference)Continuous Optimization and
Knowledge Based TechnologiesEurOPT-2008, May
20-23, 2008, Neringa, LITHUANIA
Welcome to Lithuania !

• LitORS is submiting applications for
• XXVI EURO Conference, 2012, Vilnius, Lithuania
• XIII International Conference on Stochastic
  programming , 2013 (maybe, in Neringa, Lithuania
  !!! )

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International Conference (EURO mini-
conference)Continuous Optimization and
Knowledge Based TechnologiesEurOPT-2008, May
20-23, 2008, Neringa, LITHUANIA

• Thanks you for coming and participation !!!
• Conference Chairs
• Tamas Terlaky Leonidas Sakalauskas
  Gerhard Willi Weber