Aims and Scope

ECCO : European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization.

The European Conference on Combinatorial Optimization ECCO XVII 2004, aims at bringing together researchers, practitioners, and educators in several fields (artificial intelligence, computer science, information technology, management science, mathematical programming, operations research and related areas) to share their views and discuss more recent advances in the theory and applications to strategic, operational, and tactical problems in business, industry and public administration. Recent ECCO sessions have attracted a wide array of novel methodologies, clever implementations, and easy-to-use real-time decision support systems.

The conference theme is New Opportunities for Management Sciences and Information Technologies.

All topics are welcome including, but are not limited to, meta-heuristics & their hybrids (adaptive memory programming, tabu search, genetic algorithm, ...); polyhedral approaches to difficult problems; recent developments in classical optimization problems (assignment, knapsack, network design & graph, location, partitioning, routing & scheduling); operations management - logistics, project management, production planning and scheduling, location and layout, routing and distribution, resource allocation, flexible manufacturing, computer and VLSI design, network design, e-commerce, knowledge management, data mining/warehousing, and supply chain management, web combinatorial applications.

We are particularly interested in theoretical or empirical methodologies that integrate aspects of the above fields for solving real-life problems.

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