ECCO XV Conference in Lugano

May 30 - June 01, 2002

Theme

ECCO is the annual meeting of the EURO working group on combinatorial optimization. This group was created in 1987 by a group of leading experts in Operations Research and Management Science. It is suitable for people who are presently engaged in combinatorial optimization, either in theoretical aspects or in business, industry or public administration applications. This conference gives researchers an opportunity to present their latest research and to discuss current developments and applications, besides stimulating closer future interaction between members of this scientific community. Topics of interest are all fields from combinatorial optimization, e.g. logistics, production, scheduling, resource and operations management, flexible manufacturing, VLSI design, network design, telecommunication.

Keynote speakers

• Dominique DE WERRA, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Thomas LIEBLING, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Michel MINOUX, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
• Wieslaw KUBIAK, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Registration information

Registration fee entitles the participants to: abstract booklet; access to all sessions; conference dinner. The conference dinner will be held at the panoramic Ristorante Vetta on top of Monte San Salvatore, a beautiful hill which dominates the city of Lugano.

Registration before 28th February 2002
195 CHF (130 Euro approx.)

Registration after 28th February 2002
225 CHF (150 Euros approx.)

Payment methods
Please, pay the registration fee of (195/225 CHF) to the following account: Account no. 57079STU, Banca dello Stato, 6501, Bellinzona Clearing no. 764
Please, explicitly indicate your first name, surname, and "ECCO 2002" as payment reference

Congress secretariat
Andrea Emilio Rizzoli IDSIA - Galleria 2 CH - 6928 Manno-Lugano
url : www.idsia.ch/eccoXV
phone : +41 91 610 86 64
fax : +41 91 610 86 61
e-mail andrea@idsia.ch

Pre-announcement of a
Seminar in Operations Research
May 31st, 2002 - 8:30am-6:00pm
Polydôme, EPFL

"Recent methodological advances in Dynamic Traffic Management Systems"

Prof. Moshe Ben-Akiva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Michel Bierlaire, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Prof. André de Palma, Université de Cergy-Pontoise
Dr. Haris Koutsopoulos, VOLPE National Transportation Systems Center, US DOT

The speakers will present recent methodological advances in models and algorithms for Intelligent Transportation Systems, and, in particular, for Dynamic Traffic Management Systems. The four speakers have been involved in major research projects in this field in the United States and Europe. The seminar will highlight the important methodological and practical roles played by operations research methods and modern traffic simulation tools.

The seminar will be organized around three types of applications: real-time operations, planning studies and system evaluations. In each context, the seminar will describe the application of traffic simulation, demand modeling, day-to-day learning and behavioral models of users response to traveler information and traffic control. Software tools based on these methodologies will be presented (DynaMIT, MITSIMLab, METROPOLIS). Real-world case-studies will illustrate the discussions.

Researchers, students and practitioners in operations research and transportation are invited.

A formal announcement, with details about registration will be provided soon.

For more information, please contact Michel.Bierlaire@epfl.ch