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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Dear Colleague<span style="color:#1F497D">s</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">I approach you with two invitations:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">EURO2018</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Next July, the 29th European Conference on Operational Research (<a href="http://euro2018valencia.com/">http://euro2018valencia.com/</a>) will be
organized in Valencia, Spain, on July 8-11, 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">I are organizing a stream devoted to
<b>Nonlinear Multiobjective Optimization and related topics</b> and I would like to invite you to organize a session in the stream.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">If you are interested, please, let me know and I can include your session in the electronic Abstract Submission System and you can invite speakers to your session
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">conveniently (a session can naturally have more than one organizer in which case you'll just have to decide who will chair the session). At this point, you can give
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">a tentative title of your session and you can modify it later. A session should consist of four talks.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">The abstract submission deadline is March 5, 2018 so all abstracts of your session should be in the Abstract Submission System before that date. Please note that abstracts must be written in English and contain no
more than 1,500 characters in plain text format (no formulas are allowed). Each registered attendee is allowed to give one presentation at the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">If you know a colleague who might be interested in organizing a session, please, feel free to forward this invitation.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">I hope that you are interested in organizing a session (or several sessions) and that together we can increase the visibility of multiobjective optimization in this conference!
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">EUROPT2018</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: The 16<sup>th</sup> EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization (<a href="http://www2.ual.es/EurOPT18/">http://www2.ual.es/EurOPT18/</a>)
will be organized in Almeria, Spain on July 12-13, 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">If you would be interested in organizing a session devoted to multiobjective optimization there, please, let me know. The abstract submission deadline is March 5, 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">If you have any questions, please, do not hesitate to contact me!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Please, also remember the deadline of the Special Issue of JOGO on global optimization with multiple objectives at the end of January:
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/JOGO-MCDM2017-CfP.docx?SGWID=0-0-45-1618129-p35755812">http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/JOGO-MCDM2017-CfP.docx?SGWID=0-0-45-1618129-p35755812</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">With best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Kaisa Miettinen
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Professor Kaisa Miettinen, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">University of Jyvaskyla<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Industrial Optimization Group: </span><a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/</span></a>
<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Faculty of Information Technology, P.O. Box 35 (Agora)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">FI-40014 University of Jyvaskyla, Finland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Director of the thematic research area Decision Analytics utilizing Causal Models and Multiobjective Optimization,
</span><a href="http://www.jyu.fi/demo"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.jyu.fi/demo</span></a>
<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- - -<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">tel. +358 50 3732247 (mob.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">email: kaisa.miettinen at jyu.fi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">homepage: </span><a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> and
</span><a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/engl.html"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/engl.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* DeCoMo project: </span><a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/decomo/decomo.html"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/decomo/decomo.html</span></a>
<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* DESDEO project: </span><a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/desdeo.html"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/desdeo.html</span></a>
<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Immediate-Past-President of the International Society on MCDM:
</span><a href="http://www.mcdmsociety.org/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.mcdmsociety.org/</span></a><span lang="EN-US">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* My book: Nonlinear Multiobjective Optimization, Kluwer:
</span><a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/book/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/book/</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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