WCGO 2019

Call for Papers

WCGO 2019 will bring together most leading specialists in both theoretical and computational aspects as well as applications of Nonconvex Programming and Global Optimization, highlight recent advances, trends, challenges and to discuss how to expand the role of these fields in several potential high-impact application areas.

The conference offers an excellent forum for scientists, engineers, mathematicians from a variety of related disciplines, to exchange ideas and present original research results in the theory and applications of global optimization. WCGO 2019 will be composed of several plenary lectures, invited sessions, and contributed sessions.

PUBLICATIONS

The conference proceedings will be published in the series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing of Springer-Verlag and indexed by ISI Proceedings, DBLP, Ulrich's, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt Math, MetaPress, Springerlink.

Special Issues in SCI journals for the post-conference publication are planned, which include

- Journal of Global Optimization

- Optimization Letters

- Optimization and Engineering

- Others to be announced.

VENUE

Metz, located in the North East of France, about 330 kms away from the capital Paris and only 1 hour and 20 minutes by TGV, is a city open to urban ecology, to its heritage with architectural surroundings of the finest quality, to its economic environment, to New Information and Communication Technologies and to a dynamic cultural life.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: January 31, 2019

Author notification: February 28, 2019

Early registration: March 15, 2019

Conference dates: July 8-10, 2019

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Le Thi Hoai An, University of Lorraine, France

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Le Thi Hoai An, University of Lorraine, France

Pham Dinh Tao, INSA-Rouen, France

Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Italy

CALL FOR PAPER

The WCGO 2019 invites all researchers and practitioners working in areas related to nonconvex optimization and its applications to submit works for consideration.

We encourage all types of contributions including theory, algorithms, and applications, in particular on emergent domains such as Data science, Big data, Robotics, ...

You are kindly invited to submit a paper (limited by 10 pages), using LNCS/LNAI style.

Topics include (but not limited to):

1 - Continuous Optimization and Applications

• Nonlinear programming

• Global Optimization
• DC programming
• Nonsmooth Optimization
• Sparse Optimization
• Polynomial Optimization
• Semidefinite Programming
• Semi-infinite Programming
• Variational Inequalities and Complementarity. Mathematical Programs with Equilibrium Constraints
• Optimal Control, PDE Constrained Optimization, and Multilevel Methods

2 - Discrete Optimization, Integer Programming and Applications

• Integer Programming Theory  
• Integer Programming Algorithms  
• MINLP: Mixed Integer Non-linear Programming
• Constraint Programming

3 - Optimization under Uncertainty and Applications

• Stochastic Optimization
• Robust Optimization
• Dynamic Programming, Markov Decision Processes, and Simulation
• Game theory

4 - Multiobjective Optimization, Multilevel Programming

5 - Optimization in Specific areas: Models, Algorithms, and Software

• Data science: Machine Learning, Big Data, Cloud Computing, and Huge-Scale Optimization
• Network: Network Flow, Network Design, and Applications in Telecom and Traffic Management
• Logistics: Packing, Logistics, Location, and Routing
• Scheduling: Scheduling, Planning and Applications in Manufacturing Systems and Healthcare
• Energy: Optimization for Environmental, Energy and Engineering Systems
• Computational Biology
• Societal Issues
• Finance, and Economics
• Robotics
• Mathematical Programming Algorithm Implementations, Parallel Computing, and Software

We look forward to seeing you in WCGO 2019, Metz, France.

Sincerely yours,

On behalf of WCGO 2019 Publicity Chair