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Table des matières :

1- EMO 2009 - Last Call for Papers
2- Jeux dynamiques, Jeux différentiels III
3- Hommage a Pierre Huard et journee JFRO sur les methodes de points interieurs
4- Lagrange Prize - Call for Nominations
5- Computational Convex Analysis (CCA) numerical library

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1- EMO 2009 - Last Call for Papers
(source: Didier Aussel)

5th International Conference on "Evolutionary Multi-Criterion
Optimization"

April 07-10, 2009. Nantes, France

Home Page: http://www.emo09.org

** HEADLINES
**

- Submission DEADLINE : October 15, 2008

- Keynote (3) and Tutorial (2) Speakers

- MCDM Track

- First day open to EU/ME members, free of charge

Please see below for more details.

** The EMO conference series
**

EMO is an International conference series devoted to Evolutionary
Multi-Criterion Optimization. This conference brings together researchers
and practitioners from different disciplines of Computer Science,
Operational Research, Optimization Engineering, Mathematical Programming
and Multi-Criteria Analysis. Theoretical results and algorithmic
developments in the field of EMO will be covered, including practice and
applications of EMO in real-life situations.

** EMO 2009, Nantes - France
**

Nantes (Brittany, West of France) will host EMO in 2009: the Fifth
International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization
(EMO'09), "where optimization technologies meet EMO". Previous conferences
in the series were held in Matsushima (Japan) in 2007, Guanajuato (Mexico)
in 2005, Faro (Portugal) in 2003, and Zurich (Switzerland) in 2001.

The conference will take place in the Faculty of Sciences, University of
Nantes, which is located downtown along the Erdre river. The event is
organized in collaboration with Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Ecole des Mines
de Nantes, University of Angers, University of South Brittany, and the
National Center for Scientific Research.

** Keynote and Tutorial speakers
**

Tutorial:

Thomas Stuetzle (FNRS/Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~stuetzle/
Topic: Ant Colony Optimization

Manuel Laguna (University of Colorado, USA)
http://leeds-faculty.colorado.edu/Laguna/
Topic: Scatter Seach

Keynote addresses:

Kathrin Klamroth (University of Wuppertal, Germany)
http://www.math.uni-wuppertal.de/~klamroth/
Topic: Discrete Multiobjective Optimization

Pascal Van Henteryck (Brown University, USA)
http://www.cs.brown.edu/~pvh/pvhHome/Bio.html
Topic: Constraint Programming

Denis Bouyssou (CNRS/Université Paris 9 Dauphine, France)
http://www.lamsade.dauphine.fr/~bouyssou/
Topic: Choices and Preferences

** MCDM Track
**

To foster the interaction between the EMO community and other scientific
communities, a special Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Track will
be held as an integral part of the EMO'09 Conference.

The objective is to take the opportunity of this conference for blending ideas
from EMO and MCDA/MCDM/MOPGP.

Papers on all aspects of multiobjective optimization and/or multicriterion
decision making are invited for submission to the MCDM track, including
those not related to evolutionary multiobjective optimisation. The topics
include, but are not limited to:

* Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding
* Multiple Criteria Classification, Ranking, and Sorting
* Multiple Objective Continuous and Combinatorial Optimisation
* Goal Programming
* Multiple Objective Metaheuristics
* Preference Modelling
* Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making

Guidelines for submission to the MCDM track are the same as for the main
conference track, as is the peer-review procedure. All papers (15 pages)
should be submitted in electronic form.

MCDM Track Chair: José Figueira (IST, Portugal)

** Submission/Publication
**

All contributions submitted for presentation at the conference will be
selected on the basis of a full paper. Authors are invited to submit
original, full-length papers (maximum 15 pages). Further information and
instructions may be found on the conference web site under « Author
Instructions ».

All papers submitted will be reviewed by the international programme
committee. All accepted papers (1) will be included in the EMO'09
proceedings, published by Springer as a volume of the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS), and (2) will be scheduled for either oral or
poster presentation at the conference.

** First day open to EU/ME members
**

The first day of the conference, which will include two two-hour
tutorials, will be open to EU/MEmbers free of charge (conference materials
not included). Details on how to request participation as a EU/MEmber will
become available on http://www.emo09.org/ in the near future.

Naturally, tutorials are also open to all registered EMO'09 participants
(they are included in the registration fee).

** Important dates
**

October 15, 2008 (extended, HARD deadline)
Submission deadline of the full papers (up to 15 pages, for reviewing)

November 15, 2008
Referee reports available - Notification of acceptance or rejection

December 15, 2008
Final camera-ready papers and
registration of one author at least per paper accepted

December 15, 2008
Deadline of early Registration

April 07-10, 2009
The EMO'09 conference

** Registration
**

. ACADEMIC Registration
(includes reception, conference proceedings, lunches, refreshments, banquet
and excursion)
early (until December 15, 2008) EUR 380,00
late (after December 15, 2008) EUR 500,00

. STUDENT Registration
(includes reception, conference proceedings, lunches, refreshments, banquet
and excursion)
early (until December 15, 2008) EUR 250,00
late (after December 15, 2008) EUR 350,00

. NON-ACADEMIC Registration
(includes reception, conference proceedings, lunches, refreshments, banquet
and excursion)
early (until December 15, 2008) EUR 500,00
late (after December 15, 2008) EUR 650,00

. OTHERS (Accompanying Person)
(includes banquet and excursion)
early (until December 15, 2008) EUR 100,00
late (after December 15, 2008) EUR 100,00

All registrations (until April 05, 2009) are made through the online
registration tool (available on the conference
website in October 2008).

**

For further information please contact:

XAVIER GANDIBLEUX
LINA - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Nantes Atlantique
UMR CNRS 6241
University of Nantes
2, rue de la Houssiniere BP 92208
F-44322 Nantes Cedex 03 - FRANCE
E-mail: Xavier.Gandibleux [at] univ-nantes.fr
homepage: http://xgandibleux.free.fr/

CARLOS M. FONSECA
Department of Electronic Engineering and Informatics
Faculty of Science and Technology
Universidade do Algarve
Campus de Gambelas
8005-139 Faro - PORTUGAL

E-mail: cmfonsec [at] ualg.pt
homepage: http://w3.ualg.pt/~cmfonsec/

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2- Jeux dynamiques, Jeux différentiels III
(source: Marc Quincampoix)

Roscoff du 24 au 26 novembre 2008
(dans le cadre du GDR 2932 Aspects Mathématiques de la théorie des
Jeux et Applications)

Organisateurs Marc Quincampoix, Sylvain Sorin

http://www.math.univ-brest.fr/siteroscoff/minijeu3.html

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3- Hommage a Pierre Huard et journee JFRO sur les methodes de points interieurs
(source: Didier Aussel et Marcel Mongeau)

24 et 25 novembre 2008
Carre des Sciences, Ministere de l'Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche
1, rue Descartes 75005 Paris
Entree par le 25, rue de la Montagne Sainte Genevieve

Age de 81 ans, Pierre Huard a ete pendant trente ans conseiller
scientifique a la Direction des Etudes & Recherches d'EDF tout en exerçant
les fonctions de professeur (sous contrat) a l'universite de Lille 1 dans
la periode 1962-1980. Il a ainsi ete le fondateur de toute une “ecole
d'optimisation” et forme de nombreux docteurs dont plusieurs sont devenus
professeurs d'universite. Ayant etabli dans les annees 1963-1965, une
methode generale de resolution dite "methode des centres", Pierre Huard
est l'un des precurseurs de methodes dites « methodes de points interieurs
» qui ont permis quinze ans plus tard de classer la programmation
lineaire dans l'ensemble des problemes polynomiaux. Son travail de
pionnier est largement salue par la communaute des chercheurs en
optimisation. C'est ainsi que des chercheurs de renommee internationale
français et etrangers tiennent a participer a ce colloque dedie a Pierre
Huard et aux developpements recents lies en programmation mathematique.

Organisation des journees

Lundi 24 novembre : Hommage a Pierre Huard
le matin M. Guignard et J. Ch. Fiorot evoqueront le parcours scientifique
de Pierre Huard avec le concours de Michel Gondran son ancien collegue
d'EDF qui rappellera l'impact du service Recherche et Developpement de
cette entreprise sur l'essor de l'optimisation en France. Le lundi 24
novembre apres-midi sera consacre aux autres travaux marquants de Pierre
Huard et aux avancees recentes en programmation mathematique. Les
intervenants sont Laetitia Andrieu (departement OSIRIS, EDF), Frederic
Bonnans (INRIA-Saclay et CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique), Luis Contesse (PUC de
Chile, Santiago), Pierre Hansen (GERAD et HEC Montreal), Michel Minoux
(Universite Paris 6), Jean-Philippe Vial (ORDECSYS, Geneve).

Mardi 25 novembre : Journees Franciliennes de Recherche Operationnelle
La journee JFRO sera dediee aux « methodes de points interieurs ». Suivant
le format habituel de ces journees, un tutorial accessible a tous sera
donne le matin par Clovis Gonzaga. L'apres-midi sera consacre aux avancees
recentes aussi bien d'un point de vue theorique que pratique. Les
universitaires et industriels suivants interviendront a cet effet :
Sandrine Charousset (departement OSIRIS, EDF R&D), Nelson Maculan et
Geraldo Veiga (UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Bresil), Adam Ouorou (Orange Labs
R&D) et Jean-Pierre Dussault (Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada)

Inscription gratuite sur simple mail a journeejfro@gmail.com. Veuillez
preciser votre nom, votre affiliation en precisant si vous assistez aux
deux journees ou a une seule (et laquelle). Merci de respecter cette
procedure car les places disponibles sont limitees et un controle a
l'entree du ministere est effectue.

Ces journees sont organisees par Gerard Plateau et le comite des JFRO.
Elles sont parrainees par EDF, le GDR RO du CNRS, la ROADEF, l'universite
Paris 13 et le LIPN, UMR 7030 CNRS.

Retrouvez ces informations et plus de details sur le site des JFRO
http://jfro.roadef.org/

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4- Lagrange Prize - Call for Nominations
(source: Michel Théra)

SIAM and the Mathematical Programming Society are inviting nominations for
the 2009 Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization. I would very much
appreciate any nominations you feel have promise, and your help in passing
on this announcement to interested colleagues.

The Prize honors an original paper or book appearing in the period
2003-08, judged primarily for mathematical quality, significance, and
originality. The announcement

http://www.mathprog.org/prz/lagrange_call.htm

contains full details. The 2009 Prize Committee consists of Adrian Lewis,
Jorge Moré, Philippe Toint, and Margaret Wright. You can email
nominations, consisting of a copy of the publication and a nominating
letter, to Adrian Lewis

aslewis@orie.cornell.edu

by January 10, 2009.

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5- Computational Convex Analysis (CCA) numerical library
(source: Jean-Baptiste Hiriart-Urruty et Michel Théra)

The latest version of the Computational Convex Analysis (CCA) numerical
library is now available from
http://people.ok.ubc.ca/ylucet/cca.html

The library allows the numerical computation of fundamental convex
transforms arising from Convex Analysis using hybrid symbolic-numeric
algorithms. It runs on the open source mathematical software Scilab.

Please do not hesitate to send me any comment on the library
(comments, wish list, bug report, and/or patch).

Thank you for your interest.
--Yves Lucet
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences
University of British Columbia Okanagan
250.807.9505 http://people.ok.ubc.ca/ylucet

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Thierry Champion
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Laboratoire Imath -- Université du Sud Toulon-Var
page personnelle: http://champion.univ-tln.fr