The First Announcement
International Conference on Nonlinear Analysis and Convex Analysis
International Conference on Optimization Techniques and Applications(NACA-ICOTA2019)
Two pioneer international conferences, International Conference on Nonlinear Analysis and Convex Analysis (NACA) and International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications(ICOTA) collaborate on their research activity and the next will be held as a

Joint Conference NACA-ICOTA2019
in Hakodate, Japan,
on August 26–31, 2019.

Aim of the Conference
The NACA conference series is organized by the International Research Working Group in NonlinearAnalysis and Convex Analysis (WGNACA). The purpose of this conference is to get together worldwide experts on nonlinear analysis and convex analysis, to exchange scientific information on genericand applied areas of the conference, and to discuss recent advances in theoretical and applicableaspects of such topics.
The ICOTA conference series is an oﬃcial conference series of Pacific Optimization Research
Activity Group (POP). Like previous ICOTA conferences, the goal of this conference is to provide
an international forum for scientist, researchers, software developers, and practitioners to exchange
ideas and approaches, to present research findings and state-of-the-art solutions, to share experiences on potentials and limits, and to open new avenues of research and development, on all issues
and topics related to optimization and its applications.
This time, two conferences cooperate in every aspect of their researches concerning the various
kinds of fields described above. We believe that this will be an invaluable opportunity to develop
our research activity.

Conference History
The first NACA conference took place at Niigata in 1998 and the second was held at Hirosaki in2001. From the third, NACA conferences have been held in every two years: The third at Tokyoin 2003, the fourth at Okinawa in 2005, the fifth at Hsinchu in 2007, the sixth at Tokyo in 2009,
the seventh at Busan in 2011, the eighth at Hirosaki in 2013, the ninth at Chiang Rai in 2015,and the tenth at Chitose in 2017.
The first two ICOTA conferences were held in Singapore in 1987 and 1992, respectively. After
which, ICOTA has become an important conference series run by a steering committee. The thirdICOTA conference was held in Chengdu in 1995, and the fourth ICOTA was held in Perth in 1998.
The fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth ICOTA were held, respectively, in Hong Kong in2001, Ballarat in 2004, Kobe in 2007, Shanghai in 2010, Taipei in 2013, and Ulaanbaatar in 2016.
This cerebrated joint conference NACA-ICOTA2019 is the 11th conference for both NACA andICOTA. We hope that this collaboration will become a milestone for our research activity related
to nonlinear analysis, convex analysis, optimization theory, and their applications.
1Research Topics
Topics in NACA-ICOTA2019 include, but not limited to, those listed in the following:

NACA Section
Nonlinear Analysis:• Nonlinear Functional Analysis• Fixed Point Theory and Ergodic theory• Fixed-Point Approximations• Proximal-Point Algorithms• Nonlinear Diﬀerential Equations• Evolution Equations• Partial Diﬀerential Equations and their Applications• Geometry of Banach Spaces• Convex Analysis• Set-Valued Analysis• Minimax Problems• Equilibrium Problems
Optimization Theory:• Vector Optimization• Set Optimization• Nonlinear Optimization• Global Optimization• Combinatorial Optimization• Dynamic Programming• Calculus of Variations and Extremal Problems• Optimal Control Theory• System Theory
Other Related Topics:• Game Theory• Mathematics of Finance and Engineering• Data Mining and Neural Network

ICOTA Section
Optimization Theory and Numerical Algorithms:• Linear Programming• Nonlinear Programming• Integer Programming• Network Programming• Semi-Definite Programming• Stochastic Programming• Dynamic Programming2• Optimal Control• Global Optimization• Nonsmooth Optimization• Semi-Infinite Programming• Multi-Objective Optimization• Variational Inequalities• Complementarity Problems• Mathematical Programs with Equilibrium Constraint
Algorithm:• Design• Analysis• Implementation of Traditional Mathematical Programming Methodology• Modern Techniques such as Meta-Heuristic for Combinatorial and Continuous Optimization
Application:• Engineering• Nonlinear Systems• Stochastic System Control• Data/Text Mining from Large Databases• Intelligent Information and Technology• Systems Science• Knowledge Management• Information and Communication Networks• Transportation• Scheduling• Logistics• Finance• Game Theory• Industrial Engineering• Management Science• Operations Research
Proposals for special sessions/clusters focusing on specific topics are also welcome.

Website
The conference website is:
http://wgnaca.org/naca-icota2019/

Organizers
Yasunori Kimura (Toho University, Japan)
Wataru Takahashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Akiko Yoshise (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

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