European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization

ECCO, European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization

Formation| 1987
Legal status| Working group
Purpose| To promote combinatorial optimization

Region

| Europe

Parent organization

| Association of European Operational Research Societies
Website| ecco.grenoble-inp.fr

The European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization (also, EURO Working Group on Combinatorial Optimization, or EWG ECCO) is a working group whose objective is to promote original research in the field of combinatorial optimization at the European level.[1][2]

## History

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ECCO is one of the working groups of EURO, the Association of European Operational Research Societies. The Group was founded in 1987 by Catherine Roucairol, Alexander Rinnooy Kan, and Dominique de Werra.

## Governance

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The group is managed by an Advisory Board of 4 members and a Coordinator. The Advisory Board is currently composed of Jacek Błażewicz, Van Dat Cung, Alain Hertz, and Paolo Toth. The current coordinator is Silvano Martello.[3]

## Membership

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The group is suitable for people who are presently engaged in Combinatorial Optimization, either in theoretical aspects or in business, industry or public administration applications. Currently (2022), the group has over 1,600 members from 75 countries.

## Conferences

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ECCO holds conferences on a regular basis (once a year during Spring). An abstract booklet is distributed to the participants at each meeting.

## Publications

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In most cases, the annual conference is followed by a peer reviewed special issue of an international journal, presenting a selection of the contributions presented at the meeting. Recent special issues appeared on Annals of Operations Research ,[4] Optimization,[5] Journal of Scheduling,[6] Discrete Applied Mathematics,[7][8][9][10] and Journal of Combinatorial Optimization.[11]

A newsletter is emailed to all members every three months.

## References

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1. ^ "EURO - the Association of European Operational Research Societies - EWG ECCO, EURO working group on Combinatorial Optimization".
2. ^ "European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization - Welcome".
3. ^ "Advisory Board". ECCO. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
4. ^ "Annals of Operations Research, Volume 207, Issue 1 - Springer".
5. ^ Martello, Silvano; Weber, Gerhard-Wilhelm; Kasimbeyli, Refail (2013). "An overview of advances in combinatorial optimization related topics". Optimization. 62 (10): 1291–1295\. doi:10.1080/02331934.2013.850255. hdl:11511/56332. S2CID 122936119.
6. ^ Blazewicz, Jacek; Boljunčić, Valter; Martello, Silvano; Skorin-Kapov, Jadranka (2011). "Combinatorial optimization issues in scheduling". Journal of Scheduling. 14 (3): 221–223\. doi:10.1007/s10951-010-0170-4. S2CID 36802205.
7. ^ "Discrete Applied Mathematics | Advances in Combinatorial Optimization". Science Direct. Elsevier. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
8. ^ "Discrete Applied Mathematics | Computational Advances in Combinatorial Optimization". Science Direct. Elsevier. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
9. ^ "Discrete Applied Mathematics | Combinatorial Optimization: between Practice and Theory". Science Direct. Elsevier. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
10. ^ "Discrete Applied Mathematics | Vol 290, Pages 1-132 (15 February 2021)". Science Direct. Elsevier. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
11. ^ "Journal of Combinatorial Optimization | Volume 42, issue 2".

## External links

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* ifors.org/newsletter/june2012_web.pdf
* ifors.org/newsletter/september-2013.pdf
* ifors.org/newsletter/sept2014-newsletter.pdf
* ifors.org/newsletter/ifors-news-sept2015.pdf
* ifors.org/newsletter/ifors-news-sept2016.pdf
* ifors.org/newsletter/ifors-news-june2017.pdf
* ifors.org/newsletter/ifors-news-sept2018.pdf
* ifors.org/newsletter/ifors-news-sept2019.pdf