[Opt-net] 1st Announcement --- 4th International Conference on Optimization and Control with Applications (OCA2009), June 6-11, 2009, Harbin and Wudalianchi, China

[Gerhardwilhelm Weber]

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

The Fourth International Conference on
Optimization and Control with Applications (OCA2009)
June 6-11, 2009, Harbin and Wudalianchi, China
http://oca2009.hit.edu.cn

Theme and Scope
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You are cordially invited to participate in the 4th International
Conference on Optimization and Control with Applications (OCA2009),
which will be held in Harbin and Wudalianchi in June 6-11, 2009.
Wudalianchi is a famous geopark located in Heilongjiang, China. The goal
of the 4th OCA is to provide an international forum for scientists,
engineers, researchers, and practitioners to exchange ideas and approaches,
to present research findings and state-of-the-art solutions, to share
experiences on potentials and limits, and to open new avenues of research
and developments, on all issues and topics related to optimization and
control. The 4th OCA will include keynote lectures, invited lectures and
contributed papers. Prospective authors are strongly encouraged
to make their papers as accessible as possible to a wide variety of
readers. All submitted papers will be reviewed. The accepted papers,
which will be presented in the Conference, will be included in the
conference CD Rom. Highquality papers will be invited to  submit their
expanded versions for consideration for publication in one of the  
following journals:

  (i)   Journal of Global Optimization;
  (ii)  Pacific Journal of Optimization;
  (iii) Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory;
  (iv)  Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems, Series B; and
  (v)   Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization.

Submission
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All papers should be written in English and the working language of  
the Conference is
English. Manuscripts should be prepared following the sample paper in  
the LaTexfile
(oca2009-sample.pdf) and dvi file (oca2009-sample.dvi). Completed  
papers should be
submitted to the Chair of Publication Committee (oca2009 at cqnu.edu.cn).  
Proposals of
special sessions and registrations
should be submitted to the Secretariat of Program Committee before 1  
March, 2009.

Important Dates
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Deadline for submission 15 March, 2009
Notification of acceptance 15 April, 2009
Deadline for final manuscript submission 15 May, 2009
Conference dates 6-11 June, 2009

Secretariat of Program Committee
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Miss Mingyan Liu Center for Control Theory and Guidance Technology,
Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, 150001, China
Tel/Fax: +86-451-86418034
Email: oca2009 at sina.com

Organizing Institutions
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Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China
Institute of Systems Science (ISS), CAS, China
Chongqing Normal University (CQNU), China
Curtin University of Technology (CUT), Australia
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPU), China

General Conference Chair
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G.R. Duan HIT, Heilongjiang

Organizing Committee
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L. Caccetta, CUT, Australia
H.J. Gao, HIT, Heilongjiang
X.L. Huang, HIT, Heilongjiang
Y. Shen, HIT, Heilongjiang
D.Z. Cheng, ISS, CAS, Beijing
D.Y. Gao, Virginia Tech, USA
X.P. Guan, Yanshan Univ., Hebei
Z.S. Hou, Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing
J. Huang, Chinese Univ. of HK, Hong Kong
Y.M. Jia, Beihang Univ., Beijing
H. Kawasaki, Kyushu Univ., Japan
T. Kuno, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan
S.J. Li, Chongqing Univ., Chongqing
S.Y. Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. Shanghai
Y.P. Lin, HKPU, Hong Kong
Z.L. Lin, Univ. Of Virginia, USA
G.P. Liu, Univ. of Glamorgan, UK
K.L. Mak, Univ. of HK, Hongkong
M. Mammadov, Univ. of Ballarat, Australia
S. Mizuno, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
T. Ratiu, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
J. Sun, National Univ. of Singapore
X.L. Sun, Fudan Univ., Shanghai
S.J. Tang, Fudan Univ., Shanghai
S. Wang, Univ. of Western Australia
G.-W. Weber, Middle East Tech. Univ., Turkey
H.M. Wee Chung, Yuan Christian Univ., Taiwan
N. Yamashita, Kyoto Univ., Japan
X.Q. Yang, HKPU, Hong Kong
A. Yoshise, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan
H.S. Zhang, Shandong Univ., Shandong
J.F. Zhang, ISS, CAS, Beijing
D.H. Zhou, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing
K.M. Zhou, Louisiana State Univ., USA
Y. Zou, Nanjing Univ. of Sci. and Tech., Jiangsu