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International Conference EURO Mini Conference
“Continuous Optimization and Knowledge Based Technologies”
EurOPT-2008
May 20-23, 2008,
Neringa, LITHUANIA
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE EURO MINI- CONFERENCE
“CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE BASED TECHNOLOGIES”
EUROPT-2008, MAY 20-23, 2008, NERINGA, LITHUANIA
ORGANISED BY
European Association of Operational Research
Societies (EURO);
 Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius,
Lithuania;
 Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius,
Lithuania;
 Lithuanian Operational Research Society (LitORS);
 EURO Working Group on Continuous Optimization
(EUROPT);
 German OR Society (GOR).
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IN COOPERATION WITH
European Chapter on Metaheuristics (EUME);
 European Chapter on Combinatorial
Optimization (ECCO);
 IBM Europe (Zurich);
 Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
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SUPPORTED BY
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European Association of Operational Research Societies
(EURO);
EURO Working Group on Continuous Optimization
(EUROPT);
German OR Society (GOR);
IBM Europe (Zurich);
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM);
European Office of Aerospace Research & Development
(EOARD)
Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of
Lithuania
Preceded by ESI XXI
Preceded by EUME-2005
Preceded by
EUME-2005
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE EURO MINI CONFERENCE
“CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE BASED TECHNOLOGIES”
EUROPT-2008, MAY 20-23, 2008, NERINGA, LITHUANIA
227 authors from 28 countries submitted to
Conference more 200 abstracts
 Programme Committee accepted 166 abstracts
for publishing in the Volume of Abstracts.
 112 papers have been submitted for
Proceedings
 Programme Committee selected 84 papers for
publishing in the Volume of ISI Proceedings
delivered during the Conference
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE EURO MINI- CONFERENCE
“CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED TECHNOLOGIES”
EUROPT-2008, MAY 20-23, 2008, NERINGA, LITHUANIA
123 participants from 24 countries have been
arrived to Neringa
 112 contributed presentations have been
delivered during 28 parallel contributed
sessions
 7 invited lectures and 1 EUROPT invited lecture
have been delivered during 8 plenary sessions
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE EURO MINI- CONFERENCE
“CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED TECHNOLOGIES”
EUROPT-2008, MAY 20-23, 2008, NERINGA, LITHUANIA
Distribution of attended EUROPT-2008 participants by countries
Lithuanian - 41
Finland
Turkey
- 22
Poland
-3
USA
-2
United Kingdom - 3
Belgium
-1
- 9
Brazil
-2
Czech
-1
Estonia
- 6
Hungary
-2
France
-1
Germany
- 5
Israel
-2
Italy
-1
Romania - 5
Norway
-2
Korea
-1
Australia
- 4
Portugal
-2
Latvia
-1
Russia
- 4
Ukraine
-2
Netherlands - 1
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE EURO MINI-CONFERENCE
“CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE BASED TECHNOLOGIES”
EUROPT-2008, MAY 20-23, 2008, NERINGA, LITHUANIA
Invited speakers and lectures
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John Shawe-Taylor (University College London, UK)
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Inderjit Dhillon (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
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Jerome Stein (Brown University, USA)
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Marta Szachniuk and Jacek Blazewicz (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
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Yves Smeers (Catholique University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
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Mirjam Dür (Darmstadt University of Techology, Germany)
Kaisa Miettinen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE EURO MINI -CONFERENCE
“CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE BASED TECHNOLOGIES”
EUROPT-2008, MAY 20-23, 2008, NERINGA, LITHUANIA
EUROPT Fellow invited lecture
Kees Roos (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE EURO MINI-CONFERENCE
“CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE BASED TECHNOLOGIES”
EUROPT-2008, MAY 20-23, 2008, NERINGA, LITHUANIA
Publications
The special issues of papers strongly selected from those
presented during EUROPT-2008 will be published in
TOP (An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics
and Operations Research, ISSN: 1134-5764);
Technological and Economic Development of Economy
(Baltic Journal on Sustainability), ISSN: 1392-8619
print / ISSN 1822-3613
Informatica (indexed/abstracted in the ISI Web of Science,
ISSN: 0868-4952).
Deadline for submission of paper to special issues :
July 15, 2008
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE EURO MINI CONFERENCE
“CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE BASED TECHNOLOGIES”
EUROPT-2008, MAY 20-23, 2008, NERINGA, LITHUANIA
The EURO MC EUROPT 2008 held as
a successfull high level scientific conference and show a
big vitality of our group !!!
Many newcomers introduced on the international stage.
Renowned experts celebrated and honored.
Precious scientific impulses exchanged.
New research projects started.
Friendship between participants initialized and intensified.
Friendship between nations deepened.
A great hospitality and generosity enjoyed and care
experienced.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE EURO MINI- CONFERENCE
“CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE BASED TECHNOLOGIES”
EUROPT-2008, MAY 20-23, 2008, NERINGA, LITHUANIA
Initiative groups have been established to create
national OR societies in:
Estonia (J. Lellep, T. Riisma, O. Vaarmann)
 Ukraine (V. Norkin, O. Makarenko, D.
Krushinsky)
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE EURO MINI- CONFERENCE
“CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE BASED TECHNOLOGIES”
EUROPT-2008, MAY 20-23, 2008, NERINGA, LITHUANIA
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LitORS kindly invites to:
XIII International Conference Applied Stochastic Models
and Data Analysis (ASMDA-2009), June 30-July 3, 2009,
Vilnius, Lithuania
5th International Vilnius Conference on Sustainable
Development (awaited as EURO Mini Conference)
Knowledge-Based Technologies and OR methodologies
for Strategic Decisions of Sustainable Development
(KORSD-2009), September 30 – October 3, 2009,
Vilnius, Lithuania
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (EURO MINI- CONFERENCE)
“CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE BASED TECHNOLOGIES”
EUROPT-2008, MAY 20-23, 2008, NERINGA, LITHUANIA
LitORS is submiting applications for:
XXVI EURO Conference, 2012, Vilnius,
Lithuania
 XIII International Conference on Stochastic
programming , 2013 (maybe, in Neringa,
Lithuania !!! )
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (EURO MINI- CONFERENCE)
“CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE BASED TECHNOLOGIES”
EUROPT-2008, MAY 20-23, 2008, NERINGA, LITHUANIA
Thanks you for coming and participation !!!
Conference Chairs:
Tamas Terlaky
Leonidas Sakalauskas
Gerhard Willi Weber