Formation 1987 Region Europe | Legal status Working group Website ecco.grenoble-inp.fr | |
Purpose To promote combinatorial optimization Parent organization Association of European Operational Research Societies | ||
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.
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History
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
The group is managed by a Coordinator and an Advisory Board of 4 members. 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 (2015), the group has about 1,400 members from 77 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, and Discrete Applied Mathematics.
A newsletter is emailed to all members every three months.