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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">CALL
FOR PAPERS<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>ISCO 2018</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">CONFERENCE
ANNOUNCEMENT AND SPRING SCHOOL</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">5th
International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO
2018)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif" lang="IT">April 11-13, 2018 - Marrakech -
Morocco</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Spring
School on “<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Advanced MIP
Formulations and Computations</span>” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">on
April 9- 10, 2018</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT"><a
href="http://isco2018.lip6.fr/" target="_blank"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt">http://isco2018.lip6.fr/</span></a></span><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">THEME
AND SCOPE </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">ISCO is
a biennial symposium whose aim is to bring together researchers
from all the communities related to combinatorial optimization,
including algorithms and complexity, mathematical programming
and operations research. It is intended to be a forum for
presenting original research in these areas and especially in
their intersections. Quality papers on all aspects of
combinatorial optimization, from mathematical foundations and
theory of algorithms to computational studies and</span><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">
practical applications, are solicited.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><br>
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">SESSIONS </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">The
conference is organized into plenary and parallel sessions. The
conference languages is English. Each speaker can give only one
talk. Proposals for invited sessions are welcome. Researchers
who are interested in organizing an invited session should
contact <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Ridha Mahjoub
(ridha.mahjoub@)lamsade.dauphine.fr). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><br>
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">SPRING SCHOOL</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">ISCO
2018 will be preceded by a spring school on "<span
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Advanced MIP Formulations
and Computations</span>”. Juan Pablo Vielma and Joey Huchette
from MIT will give 16 hours of lectures<b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </b>on April 9 and 10,
2018.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></b> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><br>
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">SUBMISSION - PUBLICATION</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Papers
presenting original unpublished results in all areas of
combinatorial optimization and its applications are welcome.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The submission deadline is
<b>January 10, 2018</b>. Simultaneous submissions to other
conferences with published proceedings or journals are not
allowed.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Two
types of submissions: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Regular
papers</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> with
up to 12 pages </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Accepted
regular papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in the <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Lecture Notes in Computer
Science</i> (LNCS) series in a post-conference proceedings
volume. The authors will have to prepare their camera-ready
version two weeks after the end of ISCO 2018. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Short
papers</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> up to
2 pages. Accepted<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>short<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>papers<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>will<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>be<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>included<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>in<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>a<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>volume<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>of<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>local proceedings.</span><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="IT"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">More
information about the submission procedure is available on the
website of the conference.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">SPECIAL ISSUE:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">A
special issue of the journal <i>Discrete Applied Mathematics</i>
will be dedicated to ISCO 2018.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">IMPORTANT DATES</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Submission:
<b>January 10, 2018</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Notification:
<b>February 20, 2018</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Early
registration: <b>March 6, 2018</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Early
registration school: <b>March 6, 2018</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Camera
Ready: <b>April 30, 2018</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">KEYNOTE SPEAKERS</span></b><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Friedrich
Eisenbrand (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Marcia
Fampa (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Bresil)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Bernard
Gendron (University of Montreal, Canada)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Franz
Rendl (University of Klagenfurt, Graz, Austria)</span><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="IT"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="IT"><span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span
style="font-family: "Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">CONFERENCE CHAIRS<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Abdelatif
El Afia<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(ENSIAS,
University Mohammed V, Marroco)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Jon Lee
(University of Michigan, USA)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">A. Ridha
Mahjoub (University Paris-Dauphine, France)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Givanni
Rinaldi (IASI, Roma, Italy)</span><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="IT"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">STEERING COMMITTEE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:FR">M. Baïou (LIMOS, CNRS,
University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:FR">P. Fouilhoux (University
Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">L.
Gouveia (University of Lisbon, Portugal)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">N.
Maculan (Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">A. R.
Mahjoub (University Paris-Dauphine, France)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">V.
Paschos (University Paris-Dauphine, France)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="IT">G.
Rinaldi (IASI, Rome, Italy)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="IT"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Abdelatif
El Afia (Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco)<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Raddouane
Chiheb (Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco)<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Rdouan
Faizi (Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco)<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(Chair)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Sanaa El
Fkihi (Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Pierre
Fouilhoux ((University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Rohaifa
Khaldi (Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">A.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Ridha Mahjoub (University
Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Fatima
Ouzayd (Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco)</span><span
style="font-family: "Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:FR"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">For
more information on the Symposium and School, you can consult
the website of the conference or write to: <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:ridha.mahjoub@lamsade.dauphine.fr">ridha.mahjoub@lamsade.dauphine.fr</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> ----------------------</span></b></p>
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Jon Lee
Industrial and Operations Engineering Department
1205 Beal Avenue
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2117
USA
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jonxlee@umich.edu">jonxlee@umich.edu</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://umich.edu/~jonxlee">http://umich.edu/~jonxlee</a>
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