The European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization (also, EURO Working Group on Combinatorial Optimization, or EWG ECCO) is a

working group A working group, or working party, is a group of experts working together to achieve specified goals. The groups are domain-specific and focus on discussion or activity around a specific subject area. The term can sometimes refer to an interdis ...

whose objective is to promote original research in the field of

combinatorial optimization Combinatorial optimization is a subfield of mathematical optimization that consists of finding an optimal object from a finite set of objects, where the set of feasible solutions is discrete or can be reduced to a discrete set. Typical combi ...

at the European level.

History

ECCO is one of the working groups of EURO, the

Association of European Operational Research Societies The Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO) is a regional grouping within the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) whose aim is to promote Operational Research throughout Europe. It was establis ...

. The Group was founded in 1987 by Catherine Roucairol, Alexander Rinnooy Kan, and Dominique de Werra.

Governance

The group is managed by an Advisory Board of 4 members and a Coordinator. The Advisory Board is currently composed of

Jacek Błażewicz Jacek Antoni Błażewicz (born 11 August 1951, Poznań) is a Polish computer scientist specializing in the theory of algorithms and bioinformatics. He has been working as Director of the Institute of Computer Sciences of the Poznań University of T ...

, Van Dat Cung, Alain Hertz, and Paolo Toth. The current coordinator is Silvano Martello.

Membership

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

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

Publications

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'' , ''Optimization'', ''Journal of Scheduling'', ''Discrete Applied Mathematics'', and ''Journal of Combinatorial Optimization''. A newsletter is emailed to all members every three months.

References

External links

* * * * * * * * {{url, https://ifors.org/newsletter/ifors-news-sept2019.pdf Combinatorial optimization Working groups Organizations established in 1987