The aims of the conference is to bring together a wide research community in the fields of mathematical programming and global optimization, discrete optimization, complexity theory and combinatorial algorithms, games and their applications in relevant practical problems of operations research, mathematical economy, and data analysis.
Topics: theory of mathematical optimization - integer programming and combinatorial optimization - global optimization, stochastic integer programming, multi-objective programming - computational complexity of combinatorial optimization problems - approximation algorithms and schemes - heuristics and metaheuristics for decision making and artificial intellegence - game theory, mathematical economics, and multilevel programming - optimization in machine learning and data analysis - applications in operations research: scheduling, routing, facility location, packing and cutting, supply chain, etc.