| A. Rubinov, M Sniedovich | |
| K.L.Teo | Weping Saw |
| Weping Saw | |
| A. Rubinov | |
| A.Bagirov, J.Pinter and A. Rubinov | |
| Vladimir Shilo | |
| W. Hager | |
| Jerzy Filar | |
| Xiaoqi Yang | |
| S. Dragomir | |
| David Gao | |
| Heping Pan | |
| Shinji Mizuno and Takahito Kuno | |
| Shu-Cherng Fang, Houduo Qi and Yunbin Zhao | |
| Xiaoling Sun | |
| Lai-Jiu Lin | |
| David Gao | |
| F. Aliev, A. Rubinov | |
| John Mitchell | |
| Soon-Yi Wu |
ICOTA6 (International conference on Optimization: Technique and Applications) will be held in Ballarat (Australia) on December 9-11, 2004. Some workshops (tutorials) will be held on December 8. See www.ballarat.edu.au/icota
ILOG - world leader in software components for optimization- agrees to sponsor ICOTA.
The leading ILOG researcher, Professor Bob Bixby, will present a Key Note lecture at the conference. (see articles about ILOG and Bob Bixby at this issue).
Many conferences will be in Australia, mainly in Melbourne (120 km from Ballarat).
(See the article about these conferences at the link in this issue.)
One of these meeting is of interest for Chinese and Australian researchers.
The second Australia-China workshop on optimization will be held in Ballarat immediately after ICOTA, on December 12-13. (An article about the first workshop see in this issue.)
All local expenses of Chinese researches who attend both ICOTA and this workshop will be covered. A modest financial help also available for Australian PhD students.
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See attached (14Teo.doc)
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ILOG is one of ICOTA6 sponsors. Here is some brief information about ILOG and its web address.
For more than 10 years, ILOG's innovative enterprise-class software components and services have helped companies maximize their business agility and improve operating efficiency. Over 1000 global corporations and more than 300 leading software vendors rely on ILOG's business rules, optimization and visualization technologies to achieve dramatic returns on investment, create market-defining products and services, and sharpen their competitive edge.
For more details, please visit
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Prof. Robert Bixby will present one of two Key note lectures at ICOTA6 conference. Here is a small note about him.
Robert E. Bixby
ILOG Chief Science Officer
Research Professor
Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Rice University
Dr. Robert E. Bixby is a noted authority on the theory and practice of optimization. Bixby holds positions at Rice University as research professor and Noah Harding Professor Emeritus of Computational and Applied Mathematics, and as research professor of management in the university's Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management.
Bixby earned a BS from the University of California-Berkeley and a PhD from Cornell University. He has held academic positions at Cornell, the University of Kentucky, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Northwestern University, the Institut für Operations Research-Bonn, the Institute for Mathematics of the Universität Augsburg, the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnology and the Technische Universität Berlin.
Bixby is chairman of the Mathematical Programming Society, and was formerly editor-in-chief of the journal Mathematical Programming. In addition, he has published over 40 papers and nearly 20 research reports. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and has received the Mathematical Programming Society Beale-Orchard-Hayes Prize for Computational Mathematical Programming. He cofounded CPLEX Optimization, and has served on ILOG's board of directors.
See attached photo of Bob Bixby. (Robert_Bixby.jpg)
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There will be many conferences in December in Australia, that are of interest for many participants of ICOTA 6. Recall that ICOTA 6 will be held in Ballarat, Australia on December 9-11, 2004. A number of workshop/ tutorials will be held in Ballarat on December 8, 2004.
We give the list of meetings that will be held before and after ICOTA6. Note that Ballarat is about 120 km from Melbourne.
The list:
Dec 6-7, 2004, Melbourne International Workshop on Interdisciplinary Decision Making,
http://www.asor.ms.unimelb.edu.au/iw04/
Dec 6-8, 2004, Melbourne International Conference on Mathematical Inequalities and their Applications, I
http://rgmia.vu.edu.au/conference/index.html
DEC 12-13, 2004, Ballarat. The second Australian-Chinese workshop on optimization
Dec 12-15, 2004, Gold Coast. APIEMS 2004 Conference
http://www.maths.qut.edu.au/apiems2004
Dec 12-15, 2004, Melbourne. 2004 World Conference on Natural Recourse Modeling, Melbourne, RMIT
http://www.ma.rmit.edu.au/2004RMAconference/index.html
Dec 13-14, 2004, Melbourne. The First International Workshop on Intelligent Finance (IWIF 1) (A Convergence of Mathematical Finance with Technical and Fundamental Analysis). Crown Promenade Hotel, Melbourne, 13 - 14 December 2004, In association with ICOTA 6.
http://www.iwif.org
Dec, 14-17, 2004, Melbourne. The International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing ISSNIP04,
http://www.issnip.org/
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The CIAO-GO software is developed by CIAO (Centre for Informatics and Applied Optimization) , School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, University of Ballarat, Australia; in co-operation with Pinter Consulting Services Inc.
This software system can be applied to solve continuous optimization problems.
The software can find global minimizers or at least deep local minimizers for problems with thousands of variables in reasonable time.
The use of this software is especially beneficial for solving non-smooth optimization problems or smooth large scale problems (either unconstrained or with inequality constraints).
The current CIAO-GO implementation incorporate the following solver modules:
The discrete gradient method;
Hybrid of the cutting angle method and the discrete gradient method.
There are both commercial and educational versions of CIAO-GO.
To receive a free demonstration version of CIAO-GO, or to place an order for a commercial or educational version, please visit
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Professor Panos M. Pardalos was presented a diploma of foreign member of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) on April 27 in Kiev.
NASU was found in 1918. It is the main organizer and the coordinator of fundamental and applied researches in Ukraine. The main attention of these researches is concentrated in the field of computer science, control systems, physics, biology and science of materials. Many members of NASU were and are prominent and well-known scientists.
In 2003 NASU elected Professor Panos M. Pardalos as foreign member of department of computer science. His election is a recognition of his great contribution to the theory and applications of discrete and global optimization.
Panos actively promotes joint scientific researches of ukrainian and American scientists in the field of optimization. He also makes an important contribution to the training of ukrainian specialists. Besides Panos is a cheerful, open, erudite person with whom it is interesting to discuss not only scientific problems. His Ukrainian colleagues congratulate him.
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Here are some photos were a presentation of a diploma of a foreign member of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) to P. Pardalos is depicted.
Photo 1. Academician-secretary of the Computer Science Department of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, director of V.M.Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics Ivan Sergienko presents diploma to Professor Panos M. Pardalos.
Photo 2,3. Speech of Professor Panos M. Pardalos to the members of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
See attached (Pardalos_1.JPG, pardalos2.JPG,pardalos_3.JPG)
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The journal, Computational Optimization and Applications (COAP), has announced that Jeff Linderoth, Lehigh University, and Stephen Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison, have won the COAP 2003 Best Paper Award for "Decomposition Algorithms for Stochastic Programming on a Computational Grid," published in COAP, Volume 24, pp. 207-250.
This paper demonstrates the vast potential of harnessing the computational capabilities of the millions of processors connected through the internet.
Using over one thousand computers spread across the United States and in Europe, the authors describe how they solved many challenging problems. In one case, they solve a flight mobilization model involving billions of decisions in just over a day when conventional computing would have required over a year.
To achieve these results, they provide new solution methods that work asynchronously and fit the heterogeneous, dynamic, and unreliable computing environment of widely dispersed machines that exists today. Their work provides a solid platform for further developments in exploiting the power of the computational grid.
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Boris Mordukhovich was named a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Scholl and was elected to the Academy of Scholars at Wayne State University.
The first award recognizes his scientific productivity and the exceptional quality of his work, as well as his achievements in teaching and advising doctoral dissertations.
The election to the Academy is the highest lifetime recognition of the outstanding scholarship and creative achievements that may be bestowed upon Faculty members by their colleagues.
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In this issue of ORB, we invited Professor Jerzy Filar from University of South Australia to write a summary on "Series expansions of analytically perturbed mathematical programs".
See attached (orb-filar.pdf)
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Professor Xiaoqi Yang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) reports on recent results on lower order penalty functions.
See attached (orb-yang.pdf)
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Dr Houduo Qi is going to take up a lectureship in Operations Research in September at the School of Mathematics, The University of Southampton, UK.
Currently, he is a QEII fellow at the School of Mathematics, The University of New South Wales, Australia.
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The Australian Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (AJMAA: http://ajmaa.org) accepts research papers in all areas of Mathematical Analysis and itsnumerous applications.
Topics covered by the journal include: Real Analysis, Complex Analysis, Inequalities, Numerical analysis, Numerical analysis in abstract spaces, Differential equations, Difference equations, Partial differential equations, Optimization, Fourier analysis, Abstract harmonic analysis, Numerical methods in Fourier analysis, Functional analysis, Operator theory, Miscellaneous applications of functional analysis, Nonlinear functional analysis, Stochastic analysis, Multivariate analysis and all the other fields of their applications.
Research in these subjects has been very lively recently, and the interplay between individual areas has enriched them all. The journal seeks high quality original papers of both a research and an expository nature.
The purpose of AJMAA is the advancement of mathematics. Editors and referees evaluate submitted papers strictly on the basis of scientific merit, without regard to authors' nationality, country of residence, institutional affiliation, sex, ethnic origin and political views.
Peer Review Process
In order to maintain the highest possible research standards, papers will be refereed in the usual way, and no attempt will be made to speed up the refereeing process at the cost of quality.
Publication Frequency
The articles are published shortly after being accepted, usually within a month. Our papers are presented in pdf format with numerous cross-reference links for ease of electronic browsing. This is a purely electronic journal. Colour graphics are encouraged.
AJMAA is reviewed by Mathematical Reviews http://www.ams.org/mr-database; and Zentralblatt für Mathematik http://www.emis.de/ZMATH/.
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Complementarity, Duality, and Symmetry in Nonlinear Mechanics
Proceedings of IUTAM Symposium
David Yang Gao (Eds.)
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
AMMA 6, ISBN 1-4020-7887-0, 2004.
Complementarity, duality, and symmetry are closely related concepts, which has always been a rich source of inspiration in human understanding through the centuries, particularly in mathematics and science.
The Proceedings of IUTAM Symposium on Complementarity, Duality, and Symmetry in Nonlinear Mechanics brings together some of world's leading researchers in both mathematics and mechanics to provide an interdisciplinary but engineering flavored exploration of the field's foundation and state of the art developments.
Topics addressed in this book dealt with fundamental theory, methods, and applications of complementarity, duality and symmetry in multidisciplinary fields of nonlinear mechanics, including nonconvex and nonsmooth elasticity, dynamics, phase transitions, plastic limit and shakedown analysis of hardening materials and structures, bifurcation analysis, entropy optimization, free boundary value problems, minimax theory, fluid mechanics, periodic soliton resonance, constrained mechanical systems, finite element methods and computational mechanics.
A special invited paper presented important research opportunities and challenges of the theoretical and applied mechanics as well as engineering materials in the exciting information age.
This book provides a useful reference source not only for working people in theoretical and applied mechanics, but also for mathematicians, physicists, and engineering scientists who need to use the role of complementarity, duality, and symmetry in their work.
Audience:
Scientists, engineers and mathematicians, including advanced students (doctoral and post-doctoral level) at universities and in industry interested in modern mechanics and applied mathematics.
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IWIF 1 will be held in Melbourne after ICOTA conference, on 13 - 14 December 2004.
See attached (14IWIF1~1.DOC)
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The Pacific Journal of Optimization: Special Issue in honor of Professor Hiroshi Konno's 65th Birthday
We invite research articles for a special issue of The Pacific Journal of Optimization in honor of Professor Hiroshi Konno's 65th Birthday (August 2005).
Professor Konno has devoted himself to teaching in University of Tsukuba, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Chuo University, and he has contributed much to operations research, optimization, and financial engineering. His research area includes linear programming, nonlinear programming, global optimization, combinatorial optimization, and application of optimization to financial engineering.
Deadline for submission of full papers: August 30, 2004.
We aim at completing a first review of all papers by December 31, 2004.
Manuscripts must be sent to one of the Guest editors. The electronic submission by PostScript or PDF files of manuscripts is highly encouraged. In case of submitting hard copy, please send three copies of the manuscript. Manuscripts must be in English and be accompanied with an abstract not exceeding 200 words, lists of key words and AMS subject classifications, an abbreviated title consisting no more than 50 characters, and complete addresses of all authors.
All submissions will be refereed according to the usual standards of The Pacific Journal of Optimization. Further information can be found at the Journal webpage
http://www.ybook.co.jp/pjo.html.
Additional information about this special issue can be obtained from the guest editors.
Guest Editors:
Shinji Mizuno
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
Tokyo Institute of Technology
2-12-1 Oh-Okayama, Meguro,
Tokyo, 152-8552
Japan
E-mail: mizuno@me.titech.ac.jp
Takahito Kuno
Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics
University of Tsukuba
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8573
Japan
e-mail: takahito@is.tsukuba.ac.jp
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The first China-Australia Workshop on Optimization: Theory, Methods and Applications was successfully held in Shanghai, China, from May 21-23, 2004. The workshop was jointly organized by Shanghai University, Ballarat University and Curtin University of Technology. Over 30 experts and researchers from both China and Australia attended the workshop and gave talks.
The aims of this workshop was to bring together experts from Australia and China in the area of optimization theory, methods and applications to meet and exchange their recent research findings and to discuss possible joint projects. The topics of the workshop included linear and nonlinear programming, global optimization, optimal control, integer programming, optimization modelling and applications. For more details of the workshop program and the abstracts of the invited talks, please visit the workshop website:
http://www.scicol.shu.edu.cn/mathematics/or/workshop04.html
As a subsequent event, the second Australia-China Workshop on Optimization: Theory, Methods and Applications will be held in Ballarat, Australia, right after the ICOTA6 (December 9-11, 2004).
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The International Conference on Analysis and its Applications was held from May 28 to 31,2004 in honor of the 70 th birthday of Professoe Hang Chin Lai at National Changhua University of Education,Taiwan. The conference was organized by Professor Lai-Jiu Lin.
The organizing committee invited Prof.R.T.Rockafellar (USA), Prof.B.S.Mordukhovich(USA), Prof.A.Rubinov(Australia) and Prof. Hang Chin Lai(Taiwan) to give keynote lectures.
The following professors were invited as plenary speakers:
Prof.S.Akashi(Japan), Prof.J.K.Kim(Korea), Prof.G.Yamazaki(Japan), Prof C.C.Yang(Hong Kong), Prof. Shu-Chern Fang(USA), Prof.J.A.Filar(Australia), Prof.D.S.Kim (Korea), Prof. S.M. Guu(Taiwan), Prof.Anthony To-Ming Lau (Canada), Prof.G.M.Lee (Korea), Prof.S.Park (Korea), Prof.S.Schaible (USA), Prof. M.S.Shih (Taiwan), Prof.T.Tanaka (Japan), Prof.Sen -Yen Shaw (Taiwan), Prof.W.Takahashi (Japan), Prof.J.Tomiyama(Japan), Prof.X.Q.Yang (Hong Kong), Prof.J.C.Yao(Taiwan), Prof.F.B.Yeh (Taiwan), Prof.P.L.Yu (Taiwan). Prof.Ngai-Ching Wong (Taiwan), Prof.P.Y.Wu (Taiwan), Prof.T.Nishishishiraho (Japan).
55 contributed talks were also presented at ther conference . I appreciate all the keynote speakers, plenary speakers and contributed talk speakers and all the participants, all members of the organizing committee and all the sponsors of this conference.
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The 1st International Conference on Control and Optimization with Industrial Application will be held in Baku (Azerbaijan) on May 22-25, 2005. (see http://www.aseu.ab.az/coia-2005/ )
Conference organizers are Ali Abbasov, Fikret Aliev, Panos Paradalos and Alex Rubinov.
The list of invited speakers currently includes
The ICCOIA'05 will provide a forum where engineers, scientists, and mathematicians from academia and industry can meet to share ideas of latest research work in all branches of Science and Engineering involving the control and optimization with industrial applications.
The conference will be held on May, 22-25, 2005 at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan.
Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts on topics related to, but not limited to, the following topics:
Prospective authors should submit a 300-word Abstract by e-mail to
The Abstract should clearly state the objectives, results and conclusions of the work undertaken and emphasize the novel aspects of the work. Contact information and affiliation of the corresponding author must be included. Papers presented at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings.
A six-page camera-ready manuscript of accepted papers should be submitted by the deadline mentioned below.
Selected papers will be published in special issues of some International Journals and a book.
Proposals for half-day (3-hour) tutorials are solicited in areas related to the conference scope. Proposals should include the topic, expected background of participants, objectives, a short summary, and qualifications of the instructors).
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for Abstracts: 30 December, 2004
Submission of tutorial proposal: 30 November, 2004
Notification of acceptance: 31 January, 2005
Submission of six-page camera-ready manuscripts: 31 March, 2005
Early Registration cutoff date: 25 March, 2005
Submission of selected papers: 30 September, 2005
REGISTRATION FEE Early (by March,25): $US300 On-Site: $US400
Students: $US100
For the participants from FSU: $US20
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The inaugural triennial International Conference on Continuous Optimization will take place on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, August 2-4, 2004; a website for the Conference is available at:
http://www.math.rpi.edu/iccopt
This is a Mathematical Programming Society conference. It is a sister conference to IPCO, the Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization Conference, and is programmed the year after ISMP, the international symposium on mathematical programming.
The scientific program of ICCOPT will cover all major aspects of continuous optimization: theory, algorithms, applications, and related problems.
The Conference will consist of a mixture of plenary, semiplenary, invited, and contributed talks. It is anticipated that at most four sessions will be scheduled in parallel. Selected papers will appear in a special issue of Mathematical Programming Series B.
A dedicated session will be devoted to papers by young colleagues, to be chosen by a panel of reviewers.
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Confirmed plenary and semiplenary speakers:
Aharon Ben-Tal
Sven Leyffer
Olvi Mangasarian
Arnold Neumaier
R. Tyrrell Rockafellar
Carsten Scherer
Alexander Shapiro
Paul Tseng
Shuzhong Zhang
GENERAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
You are cordially invited to attend the conference and to submit a contributed paper for presentation. Due to the limited number of available slots, the Program Committee may have to decline some submissions. Thedeadline for submission is May 1, 2004.
SUMMER SCHOOL
Intended for advanced graduate students and researchers who wish to be exposed to a wide spectrum of topics in continuous optimization, the Summer School at ICCOPT I will be run on Saturday, July 31, 2004 (full day) and Sunday, August 1, 2004 (half day). Tutorials on the following topics are being planned:
Conic Programming: Mike Todd
Equilibrium Programming: Danny Ralph
Nonlinear Programming: Marc Teboulle
Stochastic Programming: Roger Wets
Variational and Nonsmooth Analysis: Boris Mordukhovich
Software: Jorge More
REGISTRATION FEES
Conference only:
$175 before July 1, 2004.
$90 for students.
Summer school+conference:
$300 (includes dorm accommodation for students)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jong-Shi Pang, Program chair
Roberto Cominetti
Nick Gould
Florian Jarre
Tim Kelley
Masakazu Kojima
Jie Sun
Andre Tits
IMPORTANT DATES
April 5, 2004: Deadline for papers for consideration in the special session dedicated to young researchers.
May 1, 2004: Deadline for titles and abstracts.
July 1, 2004: Registration deadline.
July 31 and August 1, 2004: Summer school.
August 2-4: ICCOPT I.
CONTACT DETAILS
The Local Organizers of ICCOPT I:
Jong-Shi Pang pangj@rpi.edu, Co-Chair
John Mitchell mitchj@rpi.edu, Co-Chair (SIAM Representative)
Kristin Bennett bennek@rpi.edu, Member
Joe Ecker eckerj@rpi.edu Member
ICCOPT I is organized in cooperation with the INFORMS Optimization Section, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization. It is sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation, the Mathematical Programming Society, IBM Research, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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From May 17-20, 2004, we have a very successful workshop on optimization in Department of Mathematics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
There are 14 invited speakers from Australia, Hong Kong, United States and Taiwan. We have 26 talks in the workshop.
Since this is a small workshop, all the talks are related and interesting for every participate. Many talks were discussed about the solution methods for optimization problems which were the most interesting topic for the workshop.
The speakers included Prof. Lou Caccetta, Prof. Shu-Cherng Fang, Prof. Duan Li, Prof. Alex Rubinov, Prof. Kok Lay Teo and Dr. Xiaoqi Yang, etc. This workshop was supported by National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taiwan. The organizer of the workshop was Prof. Soon-Yi Wu.
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