Dear SIPTA friends,

The special session below at EUROPT might be of some interest to some of you - robustness and resilience are explicit aims of the session and imprecise probability approaches to optimisation in engineering problems would be most welcome there too.

Note the unfortunate overlap with ISIPTA; still it would be good to have presence from our community there, so if you weren't planning to go to ISIPTA this year, perhaps EUROPT is worth considering.

Kind regards, Matthias

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Dear Colleague,

this is a gentle reminder that the deadline to submit your abstract for the sessions on “Uncertainty based Optimization in Engineering” within the framework of the 15th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization, Montreal, Canada, 12-14 July 2017, is fast approaching (*Abstract submission deadline: March 15, 2017*) .

EUROPT website: https://www.gerad.ca/colloques/europt2017/ Special session website: http://utopiae.eu/about/utopiae-training/research/ ieee-computational-intelligence-in-aerospace-sciences/ieee-activities/ utopiae-activities/

*Important Dates* Abstract submission deadline: *March 15, 2017* Abstract acceptance: March 31, 2017

*Scope and Motivations* In an expanding world with limited resources and increasing uncertainty, optimization and uncertainty quantification become a necessity. Optimization can turn a problem into a solution, thus the main focus of this session is to promote the knowledge exchange on new approaches to treat uncertainty in complex engineering systems and use novel optimization techniques to efficiently deal with large scale problems with many objectives and uncertain quantities. It is generally recognised, in fact, that neglecting the impact of uncertainty on the design of any system or process can lead to unreliable design solutions.

Common approaches that make use of safety margins to account for uncertainty in design and manufacturing are not adequate to fully capture the growing complexity of engineering systems and provide reliable, resilient and optimal solutions.

*Topics* The sessions are open to everybody who wants to present recent and original results on any of the following topics:

• Robust Optimization
• Reliability based Design Optimization
• Resilience based Design Optimization
• Evolvable Optimization Under Uncertainty
• Uncertainty based Multidisciplinary Design Optimization

with applications to any engineering areas, in particular:

• Aeronautics, Aerospace, and Space
• Agriculture and Precision Farming
• Automotive
• Bio-Engineering
• Civil and Structural Engineering
• Electronics
• Energy, including Renewable Energy
• Offshores, Coastal and Marine Engineering and Operations
• Transport and Logistics
• Turbomachinery

*Registration* Before May 1st, 2017: 200$ (students: 150$) After May 1st, 2017: 250$ (students: 180$)

*Abstract Submission* Abstracts should be no longer than 100 words and should not contain mathematical notation.

Updated info on submission and registration will be available at the Workshop page https://www.gerad.ca/colloques/europt2017/

*Sessions Organisers* Edmondo Minisci Lecturer, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization edmondo.minisci(a)strath.ac.uk<mailto:edmondo.minisci(a)strath.ac.uk>

Annalisa Riccardi Lecturer, Computational Intelligence annalisa.riccardi(a)strath.ac.uk<mailto:annalisa.riccardi(a)strath.ac.uk>

Massimiliano Vasile Professor, Space System Engineering massimiliano.vasile(a)strath.ac.uk<mailto:massimiliano.vasile(a)strath.ac.uk>

Task Force “Computational Intelligence in Aerospace Sciences”, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

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