The third Yalta Optimization Conference will take place on August 2-4, 2010 in Yalta, Ukraine. This year the main theme of the conference is "Network Science". This 3 day event will feature up to 30 talks and will provide an excellent forum for exchange of ideas, sharing the latest advances, understanding the challenges and discussing the role optimization will play in the emerging discipline of network science. A special issue of Optimization Letters (OPTL) will be devoted to the conference.
Call for Participation
Proposals for special sessions, invited speakers and contributed papers and are welcome and may be submitted by email to Sergiy Butenko (butenko@tamu.edu) or Oleg Prokopyev (prokopyev@engr.pitt.edu). Researchers and practitioners working in areas related to theory and applications of optimization in network science 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, 2010
Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2010
Early registration deadline: June 1, 2010
Regular registration deadline: July 1, 2010
Submission of papers to special issue of OPTL: November 1, 2010
Organizers
Sergiy Butenko, Texas A&M University, USA
Oleg Prokopyev, University of Pittsburgh, USA
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
Fred Glover, University of Colorado, USA
Gary Kochenberger, University of Colorado at Denver, USA
Ilias Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Dmytro Matsypura, University of Sydney, Australia
Mauricio Resende, AT&T Labs, USA
Valentyna O. Roschyn, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine
Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy