The fourth Yalta Optimization Conference will take place on June 17-18, 2012 in Ukraine Palace Hotel in Yevpatoria, Crimea, Ukraine. This year the main theme of the conference is "Resilient Networks". This 2-day event will feature up to 15 talks and will be carried out in an academic workshop format, providing an excellent opportunity for informal exchange of ideas between the participants.
Call for Participation
Proposals for special sessions, invited speakers and contributed papers are welcome and may be submitted by email to Sergiy Butenko (butenko@tamu.edu) or Dmytro Matsypura (dmytro.matsypura@sydney.edu.au). Researchers and practitioners working in areas related to theory and applications of optimization in networks 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.
Important Dates
Submission of abstracts: May 20, 2012
Notification of acceptance: May 21, 2012
Early registration deadline: June 1, 2012
Organizers
Sergiy Butenko, Texas A&M University, USA
Dmytro Matsypura, The University of Sydney, Australia
Volodymyr P. Shylo, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine
Advisory Committee
Balabhaskar Balasundaram, Oklahoma State University, USA
Vladimir Boginski, University of Florida, USA
Dmytro Boyarchuk, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine
Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Oleg Prokopyev, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Mauricio Resende, AT&T Labs, USA
Valentyna O. Roschyn, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine
Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy