The Bilevel Optimization Society
Welcome to the Bilevel Optimization Society!
About
The bilevel optimization society (BOS) is a technical section of the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS).
The goal of the BOS is to create and maintain a community of researchers that recognize their work as related to bilevel optimization, while at the same time expanding its basis and promoting its outreach within and outside academia. This is achieved through the organization of (i) the International Conference on Bilevel Optimization (ICBO) series and (ii) the dissemination and promotion of research and information related to bilevel optimization.
What is Bilevel Optimization?
Bilevel optimization is a field of mathematical optimization that focuses on problems incorporating other optimization problems as constraints. It has been successfully applied to model hierarchical decision-making processes across various domains, including economics, security, transportation, power systems, machine learning, pricing, and many more.
The International Conference on Bilevel Optimization (ICBO)
The ICBO is a bi-annual conference on bilevel optimization with the goal to highlight recent advances and trends in the field. The conferences will usually consist of a set of invited plenary speakers as well as of sessions of contributed talks. Its aim is to bring together junior and senior researchers in the field of bilevel optimization as well as practitioners using bilevel optimization.
Organization
The BOS acts in accordance with its bylaws.
It’s founding committe consists of
- Luce Brotcorne (Inria, Lille, France),
- Victor Bucarey Lopez (Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile),
- Margarida Carvalho (Université de Montréal, Canada),
- Ted Ralphs (Lehigh University, USA),
- Martin Schmidt (Universität Trier, Germany),
- Alain Zemkoho (University of Southampton, UK), as the Chair,
- Jin Zhang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China).
This committee is right now organizing the elections for the first committee of the BOS (COBOS). Stay tuned!
The advisory board in the process of creating BOS is made of the following people:
- Miguel Anjos (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Didier Aussel (Université de Perpignan, France)
- José-Fernando Camacho-Vallejo (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico)
- Carmen Galé (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
- Martine Labbé (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
- Fernando Ordonez (Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile)
Membership
- A person becomes a BOS member by completing and submitting the respective membership form.
- Membership of the MOS is not a prerequisite for membership of the BOS.
- Membership to BOS has to be renewed by the 31st of December of the calendar year of the most recent edition of ICBO. Membership lapses if a member fails to complete and submit the membership form by this deadline.
- A member can request removal from the membership roster by a request to the Secretary.
You can become a member by filling this form.
Contact
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the current founding chair of BOS, Alain Zemkoho, via E-Mail.