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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Dear Colleague<span style='color:#1F497D'>s</span>,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Please, find below two invitations to organize sessions in EURO conferences in 2012 related to multiobjective optimization and MCDM. It would be most desirable to have a strong representation of these areas in <span style='color:#1F497D'>the </span>conferences.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>1) We are organizing a steam of sessions devoted to Multiobjective Optimization for the 25th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXV) which will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania on 8-11 July, 2012. The website of the conference is <span lang=PT><a href="http://www.euro-2012.lt"><span lang=EN-US>www.euro-2012.lt</span></a></span>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>If you’d like to organize one or more sessions consisting of 3-4 talks, please, let us know the title of your session(s) and we'll include your session in the abstract submission system. It enables you to conveniently invite people to your session and handle the submissions. By accepting this invitation you agree to be in charge of your session and chair it. You may also have a co-chair (if so, please, let us know).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>We hope you are interested in contributing to the success of EURO XXV and look forward to hearing from you within a week.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>With best regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Jose Rui Figueira, Kaisa Miettinen and Christiane Tammer<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="mailto:Jose.Figueira@mines.inpl-nancy.fr">Jose.Figueira@mines.inpl-nancy.fr</a>; <a href="mailto:kaisa.miettinen@jyu.fi">kaisa.miettinen@jyu.fi</a>; <a href="mailto:christiane.tammer@mathematik.uni-halle.de">christiane.tammer@mathematik.uni-halle.de</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>2) I am organizing a steam of sessions devoted to Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Combinatorial Optimization (MCDM Invited Stream) for the ECCO XXV conference (25th Conference of EWG-ECCO, the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization) which will take place in Antalya, Turkey on April 26 - 28, 2012, <a href="http://www.eccoxxv.org/">http://www.eccoxxv.org/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>If you’d like to organize one or more sessions consisting of 3-4 talks devoted to MCDM and combinatorial optimization, please, let me know the title of your session(s) and I'll include your session in the abstract submission system. By accepting this invitation you agree to be in charge of your session and chair it. You may also have a co-chair.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I hope you are interested in contributing to the success of ECCO XXV and look forward to hearing from you within a week.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>With best regards, Kaisa Miettinen, <span lang=FI><a href="mailto:kaisa.miettinen@jyu.fi"><span lang=EN-US>kaisa.miettinen@jyu.fi</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>************************************<br>Professor Kaisa Miettinen, PhD<br>Industrial Optimization Group<br><a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/</a><br>Dept. of Mathematical Information Technology<br>P.O. Box 35 (Agora)<br>FI-40014 University of Jyvaskyla, Finland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Stockholm, Sweden<br>- - -<br>tel. +358 50 3732247 (mob.)<br>fax: +358 14 2602771<br>email: kaisa.miettinen at jyu.fi<br>homepage: <a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine</a> and<br> <a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/engl.html">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/engl.html</a><br>* General Chair of the 21st Int. Conf. on MCDM: <a href="http://www.jyu.fi/mcdm2011/">http://www.jyu.fi/mcdm2011/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>* President of the International Society on MCDM: <u><span style='color:#0070C0'><a href="http://www.mcdmsociety.org/">http://www.mcdmsociety.org/</a></span></u><span style='color:#0070C0'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>* President of EUROPT, EURO Working Group on Continuous Optimization<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>* My book: Nonlinear Multiobjective Optimization, Kluwer,<br>see <a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/book/">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/book/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>