Twenty years of EUROPT, the EURO working group on Continuous Optimization

2022-01-01
Cafieri, Sonia
Tchemisova, Tatiana
Weber, Gerhard Wilhelm
EUROPT, the Continuous Optimization working group of EURO, celebrated its 20 years of activity in 2020. We trace the history of this working group by presenting the major milestones that have led to its current structure and organization and its major trademarks, such as the annual EUROPT workshop and the EUROPT Fellow recognition.
EURO Journal on Computational Optimization

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Citation Formats
S. Cafieri, T. Tchemisova, and G. W. Weber, “Twenty years of EUROPT, the EURO working group on Continuous Optimization,” EURO Journal on Computational Optimization, vol. 10, pp. 0–0, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85133946799&origin=inward.