Call for Special Sessions of ICOTA 8
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the 8th International Conference on Optimization:
Techniques and Applications (ICOTA 8) will be held in Shanghai, China on
December 10-13, 2010. It is a continuation of the ICOTA series, which has been held in Singapore (1989 and
1992), Chengdu, China (1995), Perth,
Australia (1998), Hong Kong (2001), Ballarat, Australia (2004) and Kobe, Japan
(2007). More information about ICOTA 8 can be found on the conference website
at: http://www.fdsm.fudan.edu.cn/icota8
As the Co-Chairs of the ICOTA 8 International Programme Committee, we would like
to invite you to organize a special session or stream for ICOTA 8. Special
sessions and streams are to complement the regular technical programme with
emerging topics of interest. Thus, they will constitute very important
parts of the programme of ICOTA 8.
Each special session will consist of 4 talks, 20 minutes each. You are
also welcome to organize a special stream which could include more than one
session. Please send your proposal to:
by February 1, 2010. The proposal
should include the following information:
(1) Title of the proposed special session (stream)
(2) Name(s)/affiliation(s) of organizer(s), and contact email
address
(3) List of potential contributors and tentative paper titles (if available)
(4) Aim of the proposed special session (stream)
Proposals will be evaluated on the basis
of their relevance, timeliness, interest and significance, as well as the
quality of potential papers to be included in the proposed session (stream).
Notification of acceptance of special sessions (streams) will be sent via email
by February 20, 2010. Special session (stream) organizers would be
responsible for managing the review of the papers submitted to their proposed
special sessions (streams).
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: February 1, 2010. Acceptance Notification: February 20, 2010
We look forward to receiving your proposals.
Yours sincerely
Co-Chairs
ICOTA 8 International Programme Committee
Masao Fukushima (Kyoto University)
Kok Lay Teo (Curtin University of
Technology)
ICOTA8@fudan.edu.cn