Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for Workshop or Special Sessions on topics relating to optimization theory, methods and applications.

Proposals for Workshops/Sessions:
Proposals for workshops/sessions should contain:
(1) Title of Workshops/Special Sessions
(2) Scope and Topics
(3) Profile of Session organizer(s)
(4) Contact Info. (E-mail address and Phone Number)

Paper Submission and Review of Workshops/Sessions:
Workshop/Session organizers should collect, review and accept papers for their workshops/sessions. Workshop/Session organizers should allocate at least 2 reviewers to each paper. When the two reviews are completed, Session Chair needs to make a decision, on the basis of the review results, about whether the paper is accepted without change, rejected, or accepted subject to specified modifications. All accepted papers will be included in the main conference proceedings by IEEE Computer Society, which will be cited by EI and ISTP.

Financial Support for Workshop/Session Organizer:
If workshops/Sessions are constructed successfully and all authors within the workshops/sessions paid their registration fees, the organizer (ONLY ONE organizer per one workshop) will get:

•  At least 10 papers registration: Free registration

•  At least 20 papers registration: Free registration and Free accommodation (max 3 nights).

Deadlines and Dates:
Proposals for workshop/special sessions: September 30, 2008.
Notification of workshop/session acceptance: October 5, 2008
Deadline for Submit accepted paper list: December 31, 2008
Note: Organizers of  special session can decide their own papers submission / notification deadline but the final date of the camera-ready paper is not later than January 15, 2009.

Contacts:
Please contact and send your session proposals to: ACCS2009@gmail.com.