Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization (CO96)

Conference Theme: Combinatorial Optimization: Recent Advances in Theory and Practice

An international biennial conference hosted by Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, 27-29 March, 1996

  • Conference Organisers
  • John Beasley, Imperial College, UK
  • Yazid Sharaiha, Imperial College, UK
  • International Committee
  • Michael Ball, U. Maryland, USA
  • Nicos Christofides, Imperial College, UK
  • Gilbert Laporte, U. Montreal, Canada
  • Jan Karel Lenstra, U. Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • Colin McDiarmid, U. Oxford, UK
  • Aristide Mingozzi, U. Bologna, Italy
  • Chris Potts, U. Southampton, UK
  • Bruce Shepherd, London School of Economics, UK
  • Laurence Wolsey, U. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    • Conference Programme

  • Lectures on the current state of the art in combinatorial optimization were delivered by the following invited speakers
  • Nicos Christofides, Imperial College, London - "Optimal design of telecommunication networks"
  • Bruce Golden, University of Maryland, USA - "Neural networks and combinatorial optimization"
  • Paolo Toth, University of Bologna, Italy - "Exact algorithms for routing problems"

    • Here is a PDF file containing the full conference program (schedule, accepted papers and their abstracts).

    Special issue of "Annals of Operations Research"

    The conference co-organisers have edited a special volume of Annals of Operations Research.