ICCP99

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPLEMENTARITY PROBLEMS Contemporary Applications and Algorithms Madison, WI, June 9 - 12, 1999

The Second International Conference on Complementarity Problems was held in Madison, Wisconsin. on June 9 - 12, 1999. This meeting was supported by the National Science Foundation and the University of Wisconsin.
• The final conference schedule shows the talks and meetings that occured. The complete list of abstracts is also available.
• The complete list of attendees is also available. Please inform Michael Ferris if there are any errors or omissions.
• Several photographs of various events at the meeting are available.
• During the meeting a forum on the future of complementarity took place. The report outlines several areas for future research in the area.
• A related MPEC discussion also took place. This report outlines several areas for future research in the MPEC area specifically.
• A new problem, the Michael Schumacher problem was proposed as a research focus problem.

The meeting took place at the Wisconsin Center (recently renamed the Pyle Center), located on the shores of beautiful Lake Mendota on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. (The actual building is number 142 on this map). The contemporary applications and algorithms will reflect the 35 years that have passed since complementarity was formally introduced and employed as a powerful mathematical model for a wide spectrum of problems in diverse fields.

The conference was intended to bring together engineers, economists, industrialists, and academicians from the U.S. and abroad who are involved in pure, applied, and/or computational research of complementarity and related problems.

The conference consisted of invited presentations, and was attended by over 50 participants (including the speakers). A refereed volume of proceedings of the conference will be published. There were three major themes of the conference: engineering and machine learning applications, economic and financial applications, and computational methods. Each theme was represented by several experts in the area. There were be no parallel sessions. While everyone was encouraged to attend all the talks, the meeting was organized in application and algorithmic clusters, enabling attendees to break out for research interaction.

Information for participants:

Paper Deadline

A refereed proceedings volume containing the papers of the talks from the invited speakers will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.

All papers will need to be submitted in electronic format to one of the conference organisers by August 9, 1999. Kluwer LaTeX or MS Word Templates should be used. Each paper will be limited to 20 pages. The appropriate style files and/or templates can be accessed from Kluwer. If you are on a UNIX machine, you can just "unzip latex.exe" to retrieve the relevant LaTeX style file.

The following is an example of header material you may want to use in conjunction with your paper.

\documentclass{edbk}

\renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{section}}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{1}
\normallatexbib
\bibliographystyle{plain}

\begin{document}

\booktitle[Applications and Algorithms of Complementarity]{Applications and 
Algorithms of Complementarity}
\editor{M. C. Ferris, O. L. Mangasarian \& J.-S. Pang}
\articletitle{Data Discrimination, etc}
\author{O. L. Mangasarian \& David R. Musicant}
\affil{Computer Sciences Department}
\email{olvi,musicant\mbox{@}cs.wisc.edu}

\begin{abstract}
The main purpose of this paper is ......
\end{abstract}

\section{Introduction}
....

\end{document}

Registration

Advanced Registration (due by May 7, 1999) is $100. On-site Registration is $125. The registration fee will cover attendance at the talks, coffee and drinks, a conference meal (at a location to be announced), and a copy of the proceedings. Please make checks payable to "The University of Wisconsin - Madison", and mail to:

   Ms. Laura Cuccia
   Computer Sciences Department
   University of Wisconsin
   1210 West Dayton Street
   Madison, WI 53706

Parking

The closest public parking ramp to the meeting location is the State Street Campus Ramp that is shown on this map.

Accommodation

Information about accommodation in Madison is available online. The meeting will be held at the Wisconsin Center (recently renamed the Pyle Center) that is close to Memorial Union. The closest hotels are in the downtown district of Madison, see Downtown Accommodation. Of these, the Howard Johnson, University Inn and the Madison Inn Hotels are closest. [The University Inn has guaranteed rates of $59 for June 8, 9, 10, and $79 for June 11, 12 until May 9, 1999. Please quote the name 'Michael Ferris' and the ICCP 99 meeting when booking. Tel: 800-279-4881 or 608-285-8040. The Concourse Hotel and the Edgewater Hotel are closer to the capitol, and somewhat more expensive. The Canterbury Inn Bed and Breakfast is also close, and very nice if your pocketbook can afford it.

For the very frugal, the Madison Summer Hostel is close by and offers rates of $22.50 per night, but we are unaware of the quality. Make sure you indicate you are coming to a UW conference. Rooms do have air conditioning and bathrooms are in the hall.

All these hotels are a short taxi ride from the airport (less than $20).

Restaurants

Please click for a list of restaurants on State Street (very close to the Pyle Center); locations of these restaurants are on this State Street map. The Pyle Center is very close to the University of Wisconsin Union, that serves lunches both inside and on the terrace.

Abstract Deadline

We are trying to make the deadlines as late as possible in order to allow the most recent work to be presented at the meeting. Abstracts (from invited speakers only) are due (in electronic form) by May 7, 1999. They should be entered and sent using this Abstract form.

Previous Meeting

The first international conference on complementarity problems was held at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore from November 1-4, 1995. The meeting was attended by over 50 researchers from around the world, including attendees from Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the United States. The attendees of the 1995 meeting are shown in full glory.


Proceedings of that meeting are available from SIAM as: Complementarity and Variational Problems: State of the Art.

A review article of applications of complementarity can also be found in SIAM review 39, 669-713, 1997.