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Announcement

The International Conference on Applied Optimization and Metaheuristic Innovations will take place on July 19-21, 2006 in Yalta, Ukraine. This 3 day event will provide an excellent forum for exchange of ideas, sharing the latest advances and challenges in theoretical and applied optimization, and discussing opportunities for future international collaborations on research and education in these areas, with a special emphasis on innovative metaheuristic methods.

Call for Participation:
Proposals for special sessions, invited speakers and contributed papers and are welcome and may be submitted by email: butenko@tamu.edu. Researchers and practitioners working in areas related to theory and applications of optimization are invited to submit abstracts for possible conference presentations. The abstracts should describe the contribution in general terms and should not exceed 1 page (i.e., it should be similar to a journal paper abstract). Accepted abstracts will be printed in the conference program. The speakers will have approximately thirty minutes to present their talk. Please contact one of the organizers for more information.

Organizers:
Sergiy Butenko, Texas A&M University, USA
Fred Glover, University of Colorado, USA
Gary Kochenberger, University of Colorado at Denver, USA
Vladimir P. Shylo, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine

Advisory Committee:
Vladimir Boginski, Florida State University, USA
Dmytro Boyarchuk, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine
Arne Lokketangen, Molde University, Norway
Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Mauricio Resende, AT&T Labs, USA
Marc Sevaux, University of Valenciennes, France
Yuriy Shkvarko, CINVESTAV, Unidad Guadalajara, Mexico
Alkis Vazacopoulos, Dash Optimization

Important Dates

Early registration deadline: April 1, 2006
Submission of abstracts: May 1, 2006
Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2006
Regular registration deadline: June 1, 2006
Hotel reservation deadline: June 1, 2006











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