Dear colleague,

You find enclosed the first announcement of MCO'08

Modelling, Computation and Optimization
in Information Systems and Management Sciences (MCO'08)
September 8-10, 2008, Metz, France http://lita.sciences.univ-metz.fr/~mco08/

Databases communauty may be concerned by Area 2 of the conference. 

Area 1 : Optimization and Decision Making
** Area 2: Data Mining Theory, Systems and Applications **
Area 3: Computer Vision and Image Processing
Area 4 : Computer Communications and Networks
Area 5 : Optimization and Search techniques for Security, Reliability, Trust

The refereed Proceedings of MCO'08 will include all papers accepted for the conference and will be
published in a Lecture Notes series of Springer. Authors of accepted papers are invited to submit a longer
version of their work to be published in two Special Issues of International Journals : Computational and
Management Science and Computational Optimization and Applications.

We are pleased to invite you to attend the conference and to deliver/organize a talk/special sessions
on your related research areas.
Please make a large diffusion among interested colleagues and industrials.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation.


Organizing committee of MCO'08

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Conference Topics:

Area 1 : Optimization and Decision Making

    * Recent developments from different Optimization fields: Nonconvex Programming, Global Optimization, D.C. (Difference of Convex functions) Programming, Semidefinite Programming, Semi-infinite Programming, Multicriteria Optimization, Network Optimization, Graph Algorithms, Mixed Integer Programming, Large-scale Nonlinear Programming, Complementarity and Variational Inequality Problems, Mathematical Programs with Equilibrium Constraints, Optimal Control, Mechanical and Structural Optimization, Shape Optimization, Inverse and Ill-posed Problems, Stochastic Optimization, Robust Optimization, Logic Constraints Programming, Constraint Satisfaction, Heuristic and/or Meta-Heuristic Methods, ...
    * Optimization Software
    * Novel opportunities of Optimization for Industry and Finance: Models and Optimization Techniques for various applications such as Telecommunications, Supply Chain Management, Auto Manufacturing, Aerospace Engineering, Air Traffic Management, Genomics, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Biology, Financial Optimization, Mechanical and Structural Engineering, ...
    * New developments in Classical Optimization Problems (Assignment, Knapsack, Network Design & Graph, Location, Partitioning, Routing & Scheduling)
    * Operations Management: Management - Logistics, Project Management, Production Planning and Scheduling, Location and Layout, Routing and Distribution, Resource Allocation, Flexible Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Conducts of Complex Industrial Systems, Simulation in Engineering


Area 2: Data Mining Theory, Systems and Applications

    * Foundations of Data Mining
    * Data Mining and Machine Learning Algorithms and Methods (in traditional areas such as Classification, Regression, Clustering, Probabilistic Modeling, and Association Analysis, and in new areas), Statistics and Probability in Large-Scale Data Mining, Optimization Techniques for Data Mining, Neural Nets & Simulation
    * Soft Computing (including Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Computation, and Rough Sets) and Uncertainty Management for Data Mining
    * Data Warehousing, OLAP, and Knowledge Discovery
    * Human-Machine Interaction and Visualization in Data Mining
    * Information Systems and Security
    * Business Information Systems
    * Data Mining Applications in Electronic Commerce, Bioinformatics, Computer Security, Web Intelligence, Intelligent Learning Database Systems, Finance, Marketing, Healthcare, Telecommunications, and other fields


Area 3: Computer Vision and Image Processing

    * Computer and VLSI design
    * Computed Tomography
    * Pattern Recognition
    * Audio, Image, Video Processing
    * Medical Image Processing
    * Optimization Techniques for Image Processing
    * Multimedia Computing Systems and Appliances
    * Multimedia Applications


Area 4 : Computer Communications and Networks

    * Cross-Layer Design and Optimization
    * Communications & Information Theory
    * Signal Processing for Communications
    * Network Security
    * Networking Algorithms and Performance Evaluation


Area 5 : Optimization and Search techniques for Security, Reliability, Trust

    * Intrusion detection
    * Cryptography, Cryptanalysis
    * Security protocols
    * Quality of Services
    * Trust Management
    * Software Validation and Verification
    * Certification of Results
    * etc.