This volume contains proceedings of the 8th International Conference "Optimization and Applications" (OPTIMA-2017) that was held in Petrovac, Montenegro, during October 2-7, 2017. The Conference brought together researchers and practitioners working in the eld of optimization theory, methods, software and related areas. Optimization is now a rapidly growing area in computer science. It is widely applied in various elds, e.g. data analysis and processing, image recognition, robotics, material sciences, design, logistics etc. Thus it was not surprising that OPTIMA-2017 attracted a signi cant number of participants. This year about 90 researchers participated in the conference. Previous conferences took place at Petrovac, Montenegro in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and at Costa da Caparica, Portugal, in 2012. This event is a part of series of regular international conferences on optimization that covers a wide range of topics in mathematical programming, global optimization, nondi erential optimization, continuous optimization, combinatorial optimization, multicriteria optimization, equilibrium programming, game theory, optimal control, optimization software, data analysis, applications of optimization in natural sciences, engineering, data and information mining, economics, biology, medicine, etc. The main purpose of the conference was to provide a forum where scientists and young researchers can exchange ideas, identify promising directions for research and application domains, and foster new collaborations. In response to the call for papers, we received 146 submissions. Papers published in this volume (84 submissions) were carefully selected by the Program Committee on the basis of reports from two or more reviewers. The conference featured 10 plenary talks, among them there were the following invited lectures: - Academician of NAS of Kazakhstan, Prof. Maksat Kalimoldayev, IICT, Kazakhstan, talk: Mathematical and Computer Modeling of Stability of Complex Electric Power Systems; - Prof. Yurii Nesterov, CORE/UCL, Belgium, talk: Accelerating the Universal Newton Methods.
Optimization in Economy, Finance and Social Sciences section comprised papers related to optimization models and methods in economy and related elds.
Optimization Software section was devoted to various aspects of developing the software for solving optimization problems.
Mathematical and algorithmic foundations. This section comprised talks related to fundamental aspects of optimization.
Game theory section covers di erential games, bimatrix games and other aspects of game theory and applications.
Applications section covering optimization applications in Natural Sciences, Engineering, Data and Information Mining, Economics, Biology, Medicine, etc.
ORGANIZATION Program Committee Chairs
Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) Institute of Information and Computational Technologies (Kazakhstan) Program Committee
Butenko Sergiy Bushenkov Vladimir Druzhinina Olga Garanzha Vladimir A.
Institute for Information Transmission Problems RAS (Russia) Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) Linkoping University (Sweden) Texas A&M University (USA) University of Evora (Portugal) FRC CSC RAS (Russia) Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) Inst. System Dynamics and Control Theory, SB RAS (Russia) University of Montenegro (Montenegro) Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, SB RAS (Russia) ii Khachay Mikhail Yu.
Khamisov Oleg V.
Kovacevic-Vujcic Vera Kochetov Yury A.
Kvasov Dmitri E.
Lazarev Alexander A.
Lotov Alexander V.
Nedich Angelia Nesterov Yuri Olenev Nicholas N.
Krasovsky Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, UB RAS (Russia) L. A. Melentiev Energy Systems Institute, SB RAS (Russia) University of Belgrade (Serbia) Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, SB RAS (Russia) University of Calabria (Italy) Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences (Russia) Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (USA) CORE Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences (Russia) Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences (Russia) Institute for Systems Analysis, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) University of Calabria (Italy) Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Russia) University of Aveiro (Portugal) Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) Lomonosov Moscow State Unversity (Russia) FRC "Computer Science and Control" RAS (Russia) Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) Vilnius University (Lithuania) Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) Omsk State Technical University (Russia) Organizing Committee Chairs
Jacimovic Milojica Evtushenko Yury G.
Kalimoldayev, Maksat
Posypkin Mikhail A.
Organizing Committee
Burova Natalia K.
Golikov Alexander I.
Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts (Montenegro) Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) Institute of Information and Computational Technologies (Kazakhstan) Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia)
Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) Inst. System Dynamics and Control Theory, SB RAS (Russia) Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts (Montenegro) University of Montenegro (Montenegro) Krasovsky Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics (Russia) Sobolev Institute of Mathematics (Russia) Sobolev Institute of Mathematics (Russia) Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) University of Montenegro (Montenegro) University of Montenegro (Montenegro) Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) University of Aveiro (Portugal) Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) FRC "Computer Science and Control" RAS (Russia) Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia) Dorodnicyn Computing Centre, FRC CSC RAS (Russia)
We would like to gratefully acknowledge the hard work of the organizing and program committees. Finally, we would like to thank our sponsors, the StatSoft company.
Yuri G. Evtushenko, Mikhail Yu. Khachay, Oleg V. Khamisov, Yury A. Kochetov, Vlasta U. Malkova, and Mikhail A. Posypkin.