Welcome to ICOTA 8 Home Page!

• September 1, 2009. The conference website is open now. More information about ICOTA8 will be available on this website.
  
• October 1, 2009, Call for Special Sessions of ICOTA8.
• February 1, 2010, The deadline of Special Session proposal submission is extended to March 1, 2010.
  

ICOTA 8 will be held in Shanghai, China,  on  December 10-13, 2010.  Shanghai, the venue of the conference, is the biggest city in China, an internationalized metropolis, and a motor for the economic growth in China where optimization methodologies are deeply rooted and continue to play a key role. 

The International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications (ICOTA) is an official conference series of POP (The Pacific Optimization Research Activity Group). The goal of ICOTA is to provide an international forum for scientists, researchers, software developers, and practitioners to exchange ideas and approaches, to present research findings and state-of-the-art solutions, to share experiences on potentials and limits, and to open new avenues of research and developments, on all issues and topics related to optimization and its applications.

Shanghai Operations Research Society (上海运筹学会)