Yalta Optimization Conference - 2006: "Applied Optimization and Metaheuristic Innovations" took place on July 19-21, 2006. The conference was organized by Sergiy Butenko, Fred Glover, Gary Kochenberger, and Volodymyr Shylo and was devoted to the 70th Birthday Academician I.V. Sergienko.

Conference website: http://ise.tamu.edu/people/faculty/butenko/yalta/

Tamara Bardadym, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine
Sergiy Butenko, Texas A&M University, USA
Dominique Fortin, France
Fred Glover, University of Colorado, USA
Vasyl Gorbachuk, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine
Anatoliy Kosolap, Dnipropetrovsk National University, Ukraine
Arne Lokketangen, Norway
Gabor Nagy, UK
Joaquin Pacheco, University of Burgos, Spain
Natalia Pankratova, Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Ukraine
V.A. Perepelitsa, Ukraine
Catherine Roucairol, France
Vasyl Semenov, Ukraine
Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Italy & Lobachevski University, Russia
Suresh P. Sethi, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
Oleg A. Shcherbina, Austria
Yuriy Shkvarko, CINVESTAV, Guadalajara, Mexico
Volodymyr Shylo, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine
Petro Stetsyuk, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine
Matthew Tanner, Texas A&M University, USA
Svyatoslav Trukhanov, Texas A&M University, USA
Ider Tseveendorj, France
Niaz Wassan, UK
Vitaliy Yatsenko, Institute of Space Research, Ukraine