The Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS), known as the Mathematical Programming Society until 2010,The Mathematical Optimization Society was known as the Mathematical Programming Society (MPS) until 2010
. is an international association of researchers active in

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. The MOS encourages the research, development, and use of optimization—including

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, software implementation, and practical applications (operations research). Founded in 1973, the MOS has several activities: Publishing journals and a newsletter, organizing and cosponsoring conferences, and awarding prizes.

History

In the 1960s,

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methods were gaining increasing importance both in mathematical theory and in industrial application. To provide a discussion forum for researchers in the field arose, the journal ''Mathematical Programming'' was founded in 1970. Based on activities by

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, Albert Tucker, Philip Wolfe and others, the MOS was founded in 1973, with George Dantzig as its first president.

Activities

Conferences

Several conferences are organized or co-organized by the Mathematical Optimization Society, for instance: * The ''International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP)'', organized every three years, is open to all fields of mathematical programming. * The ''Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO)'' conference, in

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, is held in those years when there is no ISMP. * The ''International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT)'', the continuous analog of the IPCO conference, was first held in 2004. * The ''International Conference on Stochastic Programming (ICSP)'' takes place every three years and is devoted to optimization using uncertain input data. * The ''Nordic MOS'' conference is a biannual meeting of researchers from

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working in all fields of optimization. * At the

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, annual seminars on changing topics are organized by the MOS.

Journals and other publications

There are several publications by the Mathematical Optimization Society: * The journal ''

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'' (series A/B): series A publishes articles from all fields of optimization; each issue of series B is devoted to a particular subject. * The journal ''Mathematical Programming Computation'' * ''Optima'', the newsletter of the MOS, contains articles on optimization, conference information and book reviews. * ''MPS/SIAM Series on Optimization'' is a series of books that is jointly published by the MOS (formerly MPS) and the

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(SIAM). It has published

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s, books collecting applications of optimization, and

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Prizes

The MOS awards prizes in the field of optimization, including the

Fulkerson Prize The Fulkerson Prize for outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics is sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Up to three awards of $1,500 each are presented at e ...

, the Dantzig Prize and the Tucker Prize.

References

External links

Homepage of the Mathematical Optimization Society
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