Goals
Discrete optimization underwent a tumultuous development in the last half century and had a particularly spectacular growth in the last few decades.
The main goal of this workshop is to survey the state of the art in discrete optimization. This goal will be achieved by the presentation of expository lectures presenting the major subareas of the field, including its theoretical foundations, its methodology and applications. The surveys will be presented by some of the most prominent researchers in the field.
DO'99 will also provide a forum for the presentation of new developments in discrete optimization. To accomplish this goal, DO'99 will feature a series of sessions for the presentation of contributed talks, presenting the latest research of the participants.
DO'99 is being held 22 years after
DO'77, which had very similar goals, and
whose collection of surveys (Discrete Optimization I and II, Annals of Discrete
Mathematics, vols. 4 and 5, P.L. Hammer, E.L. Johnson and B.H. Korte, eds.,
North Holland, Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, 1979) is still frequently used. It
is hoped that DO'99 will present the latest state of the art in discrete optimization and
will provide a similarly useful source of information and inspiration to the
community of discrete optimizers as
DO'77 did 22 years ago.
