2016 Optimization Days

Welcome to the 2016 Optimization Days and PROMETHEE Days

GERAD is pleased and proud to welcome you to HEC Montréal for this international conference that, this year, combines the Optimization Days with the PROMETHEE Days 2016. We are offering five plenary sessions, including one dedicated to PROMETHEE 2016, and five tutorials, including one on PROMETHEE 2016. On the social side, the traditional wine and cheese held on Monday at 5:30 p.m., is sure to be a great opportunity for networking and discussion. We hope to see a great many of you there!

The members of the GERAD organizing committee

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Optimization Days is an annual conference organized alternately by the Groupe d'Études et de Recherche en Analyse des Décisions (GERAD) and the Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT).

The conference aims to survey theory, numerical methods, and applications of optimization. It provides researchers from around the world the opportunity to exchange and to collaborate.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

Conic and polynomial optimization Constraint programming Derivative-free optimization Dynamic programming and optimal control Game theory Global optimization Heuristics and metaheuristics Linear and integer optimization Multicriteria decision aid Networks and graphs Nonlinear optimization Simulation Statistical methods and data mining Stochastic and robust optimization

Applications in all areas, and particularly in: Biology Energy, environment and natural resources Financial engineering and mathematical finance Marketing Operations management Robotics Scheduling Telecommunications Transportation

We especially encourage presentations on new methods of optimization and their applications. The conference languages will be French and English. In 2016, Optimization Days will be held at HEC Montréal, 3000 chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montreal, near the Campus of the Université de Montréal.

 Plenary speakers:

• Jean-Pierre Brans, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
  The multicriteria PROMETHEE adventure. Past, Present and Future - PROMETHEE Days 
  
  
• Munther Dahleh, MIT, USA
  Fragility of networked systems
  
  
• Elena Fernández, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
  New models in hub location: profits for served commodities
  
  
• Andréa Lodi, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
  On big data, optimization and learning
  
  
• David C. Parkes, Harvard University, États-Unis
  The design of incentive mechanisms through statistical machine learning

 Tutorials:

• Aleksandr Aravkin, University of Washington, États-Unis
  Modeling and optimization in machine learning
  
  
• Adiel Teixeira de Almeida, Caroline Mota, Cristiano Cavalcante, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
  Multicriteria decision problems and PROMETHEE methods: Concepts, applications and visual PROMÉTHÉE software - PROMETHEE Days 
  
  
• Warren Hare, The University of British Columbia, Canada
  Derivative-free optimization
  
  
• Miles Lubin, MIT, États-Unis
  Algebraic modeling for optimization with JuMP
  
  
• Cathy Macharis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
  Multi actor multi criteria analysis: A tool and software to include stakeholders in the decision analysis: theory and practice

The preliminary program will be available on our Web site early March 2016.

 Important Dates:

• MArch 14, 2016 - Deadline for submission of abstracts for the Optimization Days
  
• March 14, 2016 - Deadline for submission of abstracts for the PROMETHEE Days
• The notification of acceptance will be sent as abstracts will be submitted.
  
• April 8, 2016 - Deadline for the registration fee discount
  

2016 Optimization Days

   

         

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