International Conference EURO Mini Conference “Continuous Optimization and Knowledge Based Technologies” EurOPT-2008 May 20-23, 2008, Neringa, LITHUANIA

 European Association of Operational Research Societies (EURO);  Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius, Lithuania;  Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania;  Lithuanian Operational Research Society (LitORS);  EURO Working Group on Continuous Optimization (EUROPT);  German OR Society (GOR).

 European Chapter on Metaheuristics (EUME);  European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization (ECCO);  IBM Europe (Zurich);  Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

 European Association of Operational Research Societies (EURO);  EURO Working Group on Continuous Optimization (EUROPT);  German OR Society (GOR);  IBM Europe (Zurich);  Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM);  European Office of Aerospace Research & Development (EOARD)  Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Lithuania

 227 authors from 28 countries submitted to Conference more 200 abstracts  Programme Committee accepted 166 abstracts for publishing in the Volume of Abstracts.  112 papers have been submitted for Proceedings  Programme Committee selected 84 papers for publishing in the Volume of ISI Proceedings delivered during the Conference

 123 participants from 24 countries have been arrived to Neringa  112 contributed presentations have been delivered during 28 parallel contributed sessions  7 invited lectures and 1 EUROPT invited lecture have been delivered during 8 plenary sessions

Lithuanian - 41Finland - 3USA - 2 Turkey - 22United Kingdom - 3Belgium - 1 Poland - 9Brazil - 2Czech - 1 Estonia - 6Hungary - 2France - 1 Germany - 5Israel - 2Italy - 1 Romania - 5Norway - 2Korea - 1 Australia - 4Portugal - 2Latvia - 1 Russia - 4Ukraine -2Netherlands - 1 Distribution of attended EUROPT-2008 participants by countries

Invited speakers and lectures

EUROPT Fellow invited lecture

The special issues of papers strongly selected from those presented during EUROPT-2008 will be published in TOPTOP (An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, ISSN: ); Technological and Economic Development of Economy (Baltic Journal on Sustainability)Technological and Economic Development of Economy (Baltic Journal on Sustainability), ISSN: print / ISSN InformaticaInformatica (indexed/abstracted in the ISI Web of Science, ISSN: ). Deadline for submission of paper to special issues : July 15, 2008 Publications

The EURO MC EUROPT 2008 held as a successfull high level scientific conference and show a big vitality of our group !!! Many newcomers introduced on the international stage. Renowned experts celebrated and honored. Precious scientific impulses exchanged. New research projects started. Friendship between participants initialized and intensified. Friendship between nations deepened. A great hospitality and generosity enjoyed and care experienced.

Initiative groups have been established to create national OR societies in:  Estonia (J. Lellep, T. Riisma, O. Vaarmann)  Ukraine (V. Norkin, O. Makarenko, D. Krushinsky)

LitORS kindly invites to:  XIII International Conference Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis (ASMDA-2009), June 30-July 3, 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania  5 th International Vilnius Conference on Sustainable Development (awaited as EURO Mini Conference) Knowledge-Based Technologies and OR methodologies for Strategic Decisions of Sustainable Development (KORSD-2009), September 30 – October 3, 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania

LitORS is submiting applications for:  XXVI EURO Conference, 2012, Vilnius, Lithuania  XIII International Conference on Stochastic programming, 2013 (maybe, in Neringa, Lithuania !!! )

Thanks you for coming and participation !!! Conference Chairs: Tamas Terlaky Leonidas Sakalauskas Gerhard Willi Weber