• Omsk Scientific Center SB RAS
• Sobolev Institute of Mathematics SB RAS
• Novosibirsk State University
• Dostoevsky Omsk State University

• Tatjana Davidovic "An Overview of the Bee Colony Optimization Metaheuristic"
• Mikhail Khachay "Fully Convolution Neural Networks in Application to the Semantic Segmentation Problem"
• Oleg Khamisov "Branch and Bound Methods in Global Optimization Problems"
• Nenad Mladenovic "Quality Functions in Recognizing Communities in Complex Networks"
• Panos Pardalos "On the Passage from Local to Global in Optimization: New Challenges in Theory and Practice"
• Alexander Strekalovsky "Modern Nonconvex Optimization. Theory, Methods, and Application"
• RenГ© van Bevern "Maximum-Profit Domination with Matroid Constraints: a Fixed-Parameter Algorithm and Applications"
• Alexander Kononov "Query-Competitive Algorithms for Elimination of Uncertainty"

Proceedings volume of School-Seminar on Optimization Problems and Their Applications (OPTA-SCL) will be submitted for publication in CEUR-WS series (peer reviewed, indexed in Scopus).

All proceedings papers must be prepared by Springer rules for the Communications in Computer and Information Science:

https://goo.gl/r83B1W

The following two options are acceptable for proceedings papers:

- Regular paper, 10–15 pages (the Publisher recommendation is 12-15 pages);
- Short communication, 6–8 pages.

The proceedings papers should present new unpublished results. Papers must not be submitted concurrently to another conference or journal. Decisions on acceptance of papers to the proceedings will be made by the Program Committee on the basis of evaluations of reviewers.

The papers for proceedings should be submitted by the EasyChair system:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opta2018

13, Pevtsova str., 644099, Omsk, Russia - 99,
Omsk Department of Sobolev Institute of Mathematics SB RAS.
tel.: (3812) 236739,
fax: (3812) 234584.
E-mail: opta2018@yandex.ru
Chair of the Organizing Committee
Dr. Anton Eremeev