SP News & Announcements

Contents:

• Call for Participation: Special Workshop of Stochastic Programming Community “Stochastic Programming for Implementation and Advanced Applications” (StoProg-2012)
  
• Stochastic Programming Stream at EURO XXV in Vilnius, Lithuania
  
• Edited Volume of Selected Papers from SPXII: Call for Papers
  
• COSP Business Meeting at the SPXII (2010)
  
• COSP Business Meeting at the ISMP 2009
  
• SP Community Meeting at the ISMP 2006
  
• Call for papers for a special issue of the SIAM Journal on Optimization on Variational Analysis and Optimization.
  
• Information on the book "Applications of Stochastic Programming" edited by S. Wallace and W. Ziemba.
• Invitation for submissions to the EURO Excellence in Practice Award
• "Off-cycle" meeting in Auckland, New Zealand
• SPX Deadlines Fast Approaching
• Introduction to SIP
• 10th Int. Conference on SP
• Handbook on SP
• 6th Stochastik-Tage
• Call for papers Math. Program. Series B
• Call for papers Math. Methods of OR
  

                  till  May 5, 2012      after  May 5, 2012
For reg.participants    190 Eur               220 Eur
For students            70 Eur                100 Eur

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December 1, 2004

Dear colleagues,

As announced in a previous e-mail, COSP will be actively endorsing a series of smaller meetings in "off-cycle" years, i.e. years in which no ICSP or ISMP conferences take place. With great pleasure I hereby send you the announcement of the first such meeting, hosted by Andy Philpott and his colleagues.

Sincerely,

Maarten van der Vlerk

COSP Chair

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Dear colleagues,

The Operations Research Group at the University of Auckland is pleased to announce a workshop on "Mathematical Models for Optimizing Transportation Services" to be held at the University of Auckland from April 19 - 22, 2005, supported by the New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.

The workshop will focus on these three broad areas of major importance: transportation planning under uncertainty, optimizing the design of transportation systems, and pricing and revenue management. Exploring the interface between these areas will be of particular interest, and so the workshop will seek to bring together researchers who work in each of these fields to provide a cross-fertilization of ideas. A further goal is to emphasize the interface between mathematics and its applications in practical situations. To enhance this we will be engaging the support and participation of industrial partners.

We are soliciting contributed talks from interested researchers who work in these fields. Contributed talks must be relevant to the themes of the Workshop. If you are interested in submitting a contributed talk then please email a title and abstract to Andy Philpott at a.philpott@auckland.ac.nz or Matthias Ehrgott at m.ehrgott@auckland.ac.nz so as to reach them by February 15, 2005.

Invited speakers are:

• Prof. Michael Florian (University of Montreal)
• Prof. Michel Gendreau (University of Montreal)
• Assoc. Prof. Huei Chuen Huang (National University of Singapore)
• Prof. Ellis Johnson (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Assoc. Prof. Anton Kleywegt (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Prof. Gilbert Laporte (University of Montreal)
• Prof. Oli Madsen (Technical University of Denmark)
• Prof. Anna Nagurney (University of Massachusetts)
• Prof. Werner Römisch (Humboldt University of Berlin)
• Prof. Garret van Ryzin (Columbia University)
• Prof. Dr. Anita Schöbel (University of Göttingen)

The registration fee is NZ$ 300. More information about the workshop, the venue, travel and accommodation can be found on the conference website at www.esc.auckland.ac.nz/Transportation.

Prof. Andy Philpott,
Prof. David Ryan,
Assoc. Prof. Matthias Ehrgott.

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Dear Colleague:

I'm sending this quick reminder to let you know that we are accepting abstracts and registrations online for the Tenth International Conference on Stochastic Programming, to be held in Tucson, Arizona, USA, October 9 - 15, 2004.

QUICK LINKS:

• Click here to access information about submitting ABSTRACTS.
• Click here to REGISTER for the conference.

Please feel free to send e-mail to spx@sie.arizona.edu.

Thanks,

Suvrajeet Sen

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As part of the SP Introduction on our site, tutorials on current research areas are being developed. The main idea is that those who've read the introduction and want to find out more about specific topics will have a good place to start.

The first of these, an Introduction to Stochastic Integer Programming by Shabbir Ahmed, has now been posted and we encourage you to have a look. The next such tutorial will be on chance/probabilistic-constrained programming by Rene Henrion, and we aim to have that up within a couple months. More will follow.

We anticipate that the typical framework of each write-up will be along the following lines:

• Introduction
• Example
• Challenges
• Progress
• Remarks

• Other tutorials
• Recent papers on SPePS
• Bibliographies
• Test sets
• Applications
• Cross-references on stoprog.org
• Related areas

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We are organizing the Tenth International Conference on Stochastic Programming which will focus on Decision-Making in an Uncertain World. This conference is hosted by the University of Arizona on behalf of the Committee on Stochastic Programming (COSP), and will be held from October 11-15, 2004. We hope that you and your colleagues will mark these dates on your calendar, and attend the conference next year. This series started 30 years ago, and over the years, the field and the conference have grown. Among several traditions associated with this series, we mention the publication of a highly respected and refereed volume of papers, as well as a series of tutorial lectures targeted to Ph.D. students. Limited support is available for students who wish to attend the tutorials. If you wish to advertise this opportunity to your colleagues and students, please feel free to post our colorful announcement. We look forward to welcoming you to Tucson, Arizona next October (2004).

The SPX Organizing Committee

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The 10th volume of Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science, Stochastic Programming, edited by A. Ruszczynski and A. Shapiro, has just appeared (North-Holland).

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The Sixth Stochastik-Tage (German Open Conference on Probability and Statistics) will be held at the University of Karlsruhe from Tuesday, March 23, to Friday, March 26, 2004.

In the tradition of the previous conferences, the Karlsruher Stochastik-Tage provide an international forum for presentation and discussion of new results in the area of probability and statistics. The conference is open for all participants from universities, business, administration and industry. Among the different sections there will be a section on

Stochastic Methods in Optimization and Operations Research

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Call for Papers MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING Series B
Optimization under Uncertainty

We invite research articles for a forthcoming issue of Mathematical Programming, Series B, on the application of mathematical programming methodology to the optimization of decision problems under uncertainty. Potential topics include, but are not restricted to, stochastic programming, optimization of stochastic systems, reliability optimization etc. Also of interest are innovative uses of mathematical programming to stochastic decision problems in application areas such as manufacturing, telecommunication, healthcare, biology, engineering design etc.

Deadline for submission of full papers: January 31, 2004. We aim at completing a first review of all papers by August 31, 2004. Electronic submissions in the form of pdf files are encouraged. All submissions will be refereed according to the usual standards of Mathematical Programming. Additional information about this issue can be obtained at http://www.isye.gatech.edu/so/call.html. This special issue will be dedicated to the memory of Prof. Yo Ishizuka whose life was tragically cut short in June 2003.

Guest Editors:
Alexander Shapiro and Shabbir Ahmed
School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332
E-mails: ashapiro@isye.gatech.edu
sahmed@isye.gatech.edu

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The Mathematical Methods of Operations Research journal is calling for good submissions in all areas of mathematical programming and specifically for papers on stochastic optimization understood in a broad sense. For more information please visit the web site.

Electronic submissions are encouraged to one of the editors: Ulrich Rieder (e-mail: rieder@mathematik.uni-ulm.de), Alexander Shapiro (e-mail: ashapiro@isye.gatech.edu)

Aims & Scope Mathematical Methods of Operations Research

The journal publishes theoretical and applied papers with substantial mathematical interest in the areas of mathematical programming, continuous and discrete and combinatorial optimization, stochastic models, Markov decision processes and stochastic programming, dynamic programming, control theory, game theory, graphs and networks, queueing systems, inventory and reliability. Mathematical methods and applications in economics, business administration, finance, and engineering are also covered. In particular, the journal accepts contributions to mathematics, statistics, and computer science that have special relevance to Operations Research. A special section is devoted to review papers on mathematical methods and models in interesting fields of Operations Research and related optimization theory.

All papers are refereed. The emphasis is on originality, quality, and importance.

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