Report for 2SGWO, 2012

The 2nd Sino-German Workshop on Optimization, Modeling, Methods and Applications in Industry and Management (2SGWO) was held at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, from September 23rd to 27th 2012. The 2SGWO continued the 1st Sino-German Workshop which took place in 2011 at Berlin, Germany. The motivation for 2SGWO was to bring together scientists, researchers, and practitioners from Germany and China to exchange and share ideas and approaches in modeling, methods, and applications of optimization arising from industry and management. A key feature of 2SGWO is the mixture of theory and practice of optimization.

17 speakers from Germany, 27 speakers from China, and 2 speakers from the third country (5 of the total 46 speakers are keynote speakers) gave presentations on some of the recent hot topics during the five days of 2SGWO. More than 100 participants attended the workshop. The link of the workshop is

http://lsec.cc.ac.cn/~2sgwo/

A special issue of the workshop will be published on Pacific Journal of Optimization, which is edited by Prof. Yu-Hong Dai, Prof. Bingsheng He, and Dr. Thorsten Koch. The submission deadline is March 31, 2013. For more information, please check the link:

http://lsec.cc.ac.cn/~2sgwo/call-for-paper.pdf

Finally, we would like to thank all of you for contributing to 2SGWO, which keep the optimization research community growing and promote the connections and collaborations. Without the efforts you put in it, 2SGWO will never be possible.

Yu-Hong Dai
AMSS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CHINA

Thorsten Koch
Department of Scientific Information, ZIB, Berlin, Germany