The french work group on Multiple Objective Mathematical Programming
(PM2O) is an official work group of the French Society on Operations Research
and Decision Aid (ROADEF). The creation of this work group dates back to January
2000 and it aims to bring together the french speaking community interested in
the optimization of conflictual criteria, the operations research and decision
making. Therefore, theoretical as well as practical issues are considered by the
group.
Among the theoretical issues of interest, we can quote methods for vector
optimization, performance evaluation of multiple objective
algorithms, complexity of multiple objective optimization problems, and general
frameworks for solving these problems. We consider not only these topics as
academic ones but also within application fields as scheduling, workshop layout,
graph theory, assignment problems, etc.
One of the aim of the PM2O work group is to be open to every person interested
in sharing information on the topics of the group and making the everyday life
of the group easier. Thus, young as well as confirmed researchers of the field
can come in the meeting to exchange ideas, problems and eventually provide
answers. The talks and discussions are in French and in English (when non french
speaking people attend to the meeting).
The members of the PM2O work group meet twice a year in different places of
France or even french speaking countries - The first meeting held in
Valenciennes (September 1999), the second one in Tours (November 2000). All is
done in order to have fruitful exchanges. After each meeting, a booklet
containing the talks is edited and distributed to participants.
To know more about the PM2O work group, please don't hesitate to visit our web
site (www.lifl.fr/pm2o) or to send an
email to the new
coordinator of the groupe Clarisse Dhaenens (dhaenens@lifl.fr).