Organization

Technical Program Committee Chairs

• Roberto Battiti, Università degli Studi di Trento, Director of the LION lab (machine Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN) for prescriptive analytics
• Mauro Brunato, Università degli Studi di Trento, machine Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION) research
• Ilias Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
• Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, United States

Local Organizing Committee Chairs

• Dimitris Souravlias, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany
• Aristidis G. Vrahatis, University of Thessaly, Greece

Technical Program Committee

1. Dachuan Xu, Beijing University of Technology
2. Yaroslav Sergeyev, University of Calabria
3. Horst Samulowitz, IBM
4. Meinolf Sellmann, GE Research
5. Konstantinos E. Parsopoulos, University of Ioannina
6. Andre Augusto, Cire University of Toronto Scarborough
7. Helena Ramalhinho, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
8. Paola Festa, University of Napoli FEDERICO II
9. Tias Guns, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
10. Thomas Stützle, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
11. Marc Schoenauer, Projet TAO, INRIA Saclay Île-de-France
12. Lars Kotthoff, University of British Columbia
13. Martin Golumbic, University of Haifa
14. Roberto Battiti, Universita' di Trento
15. Luca Di Gaspero, DPIA - University of Udine
16. Bernd Bischl, LMU Munich
17. Andre de Carvalho, University of São Paulo
18. Dario Landa-Silva, The University of Nottingham
19. Mauro Brunato, University of Trento
20. Youssef Hamadi, LIX
21. Francesca Rossi, IBM
22. Frank Hutter, University of Freiburg
23. George Katsirelos, MIAT, INRA
24. John Chinneck, Carleton University, Ottawa
25. Barry O'Sullivan, University College Cork, Ireland
26. Marie-Eleonore Marmion, Université de Lille, Laboratoire CRIStAL
27. Mikhail Posypkin, Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS
28. Michael Khachay, Krasovsky Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics
29. Tatiana Tchemisova, University of Aveiro
30. Silvano Martello, University of Bologna
31. Oleg Prokopyev, University of Pittsburgh
32. Oleg Khamisov, Melentiev Institute of Energy Systems
33. Yury Kochetov, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
34. Nenad Mladenovic, Mathematical Institute SANU
35. Renato De Leone, Università di Camerino
36. Antanas Zilinskas, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius University, Lithuania
37. Adil Erzin, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
38. Valeria Ruggiero, Uiversità di Ferrara
39. Giovanni Fasano, University Ca'Foscari of Venice
40. Jun Pei, Hefei University of Technology, (China)
41. Hoai An Le Thi, LITA EA 3097 UFR MIM Université de Lorraine
42. Michael Trick, Carnegie Mellon University
43. Eric D. Taillard, Univ. Appl. Sci. Western Switzerland, HEIG-Vd
44. Bistra Dilkina, Georgia Institute of Technology
45. Christian Blum, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
46. David Gao, Federation University Australia
47. Alexander Strekalovskiy, Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics & Control Theory SB RAS
48. Luca Zanni, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
49. Anatoly Zhigljavsky, School of Mathematics, Cardiff University
50. Panos Pardalos, University of Florida
51. Petr Vilím, IBM Czech
52. Thomas Pock, Graz University of Technology
53. Sonia Cafieri, Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile
54. Julius Žilinskas, Vilnius University
55. Daniele Vigo, D.E.I. - Universita' di Bologna
56. Evgeni Nurminski, FEFU
57. Gerardo Toraldo, Università di Napoli Federico II
58. Vladimir Grishagin, Nizhni Novgorod State University
59. Massimo Roma, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e Gestionale - SAPIENZA Universita' di Roma
60. Kaisa Miettinen, University of Jyväskylä
61. Daniela Lera, University of Cagliari
62. Remigijus Paulavicius, Imperial College London
63. Dmitri Kvasov, DIMES, University of Calabria
64. Antonio Fuduli, Universita' della Calabria - Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
65. Annabella Astorino, ICAR-CNR
66. Martin J. Geiger, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany

Web Chair

• Andrea Mariello, LION Lab, University of Trento, Italy