Article 7896 of sci.math.research:
From: rehbock@cs.curtin.edu.au (Volker Rehbock)
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Subject: Conference Announcement: ICOTA '98
Date: 30 May 97 07:48:49 GMT
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This is a notice for THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 
ON OPTIMIZATION: TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS (ICOTA '98).

The fourth in this series of conferences is to be held in
Perth, Western Australia, in July 1998. The conference will
be preceeded by a 2-day workshop.

Topics to be covered include:

 - Applications of Optimization Techniques in Engineering,
   Mining, Science, Economics and Business Management

 - AI/Neural Networks for Optimization

 - Combinatoral/Integer Programming

 - Control of Distributed Systems
 
 - Decision Analysis

 - Game Theory with Applications

 - Global Optimization

 - Linear and Non-linear Problems

 - Large-scale Optimization

 - Location/Layout Problems

 - Multi-criteria Optimization

 - Network Optimization

 - Optimal Design

 - Scheduling/Sequencing

 - Simulation and Optimization

 - Stochastic Optimization

 - Structural Optimization

 - Transportation

For further information and electronic registration, see our
web page at

http://www.cs.curtin.edu.au/maths/icota98/

Volker Rehbock.