Aachen, March 30, 2005

Status, update

Upon recommendation by the JAF Group, the COST Senior Officials Committee agreed to a second and final extension of further six months to Action 526: Automatic Process Optimization in Materials Technology. Accordingly, our action will expire by the end of September 2005.

Sincerely,

Fredy Hediger

Aachen, March 21, 2005

Status, update

The 6^th Joint Working Group Meeting in Brno (CZ) has kindly been hosted by the ‘Brno University of Technology’. On behalf of all project leaders, WG group leaders and MC members I would like to thank Pavel Ramik for his excellent organization.

For detailed progress of individual projects please read the half-yearly reports displayed on this web page.

The WG 4 session was opened with a presentation of invited speaker Stefan Kern (“Learning and optimization in large scale simulations of anguilliform swimming”).

The WG leaders’ detailed session reports are available in the WG area.

Prizes have been awarded for the detailed presentation of some highly advanced projects:

Sincerely,

Fredy Hediger

Aachen, October 24, 2004

Status, update

The 5^th Joint Working Group Meeting in Angers (F) has kindly been hosted by the ‘Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Ronceray’ (ENSAM). On behalf of all project leaders, WG group leaders and MC members I would like to thank Prof. Alain Potiron for his excellent organization.

For detailed progress of individual projects please read the half-yearly reports displayed on this web page.

The WG 4 session was opened with two presentations of invited speakers Jean-Jacques Maisonneuve (Presentation of the modeFRONTIER optimization software) and Frederic Bonnans (concept of bilevel optimization). The WG leaders’ detailed session reports are available in the WG area.

Prizes have been awarded for the detailed presentation of some highly advanced projects:

Sincerely,

Fredy Hediger

            Aachen, January 19, 2004

Status, update

The application for prolongation of the COST 526 Action for 12 months (until March 28, 2005) has been approved during the last meeting of the Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) in Bratislava, SK.

Sincerely,

Fredy Hediger

                        Aachen, January 13, 2004

Status, update

The 4^th Joint Working Group Meeting in Kraków (PL) has kindly been hosted by the Department of Computational Methods in Metallurgy, Faculty of Metallurgy and Material Science.

On behalf of all project leaders, WG group leaders and MC members I would like to thank Prof. Pietrzyk, Prof. Kusiak and Mr. Zmudzki for their excellent organization.

For detailed progress of individual projects please read the half-yearly reports displayed on this web page.

The WG 4 session was opened with a presentation of the invited speaker Dirk Büche, Fachhochschule Aargau/Informatik, Windisch (CH): “Evolutionary Optimization of Gas Turbine Components”.

The WG leaders’ detailed session reports are available in the WG area.

Prizes have been awarded for the detailed presentation of some highly advanced projects:

Sincerely,

Fredy Hediger

Aachen, September 22, 2003

Status, update

The ‘Fourth Joint Working Group Meeting’ will take place in Krakow on November 27/28, kindly hosted by the Department of Computational Methods in Metallurgy, Faculty of Metallurgy and Material Science (PL).

Please find all necessary information via this web page.

Sincerely,

Fredy Hediger

Aachen, August 31, 2003

Status, update

The ‘Third Joint Working Group Meeting’ in Brussels -  hosted by the European Commission on May 26/27 – has shown a remarkable improvement in overall quality for an increasing number of COST 526 projects.

The WG 4 session was opened with a presentation of the invited speaker Christof Bäuerle, FhG SCAI St. Augustin, Germany, entitled

‘DesParO – A Multidisciplinary Optimization Software’.

The WG leaders’ detailed session reports are available in the WG area.

Prizes have been awarded for the detailed presentation of some highly advanced projects:

Sincerely,

Fredy Hediger

Aachen, May 12^th 2003

Status, update

We shall meet for our “Third Working Group Meeting”, kindly being hosted by the European Commission, Research Directorate-General in Brussels, Belgium on May 26^th/27^th.

Please find all necessary information via this web page and pay attention to the details given in the working group area.

Sincerely

Fredy Hediger

Aachen, May 1^st 2003

Status, update

Our „Second Joint Working Group Meeting” has kindly been hosted by the Bay Zoltan Institute for Materials, Science and Technology in Budapest. My hearty thanks to Dr. Felde and Dr. Réger!

In the three Working Group sessions, current status of 19 projects (of altogether 24) was reported on by the respective project leaders. Three interdisciplinary presentations were given in Working Group 4 “Optimization Methodologies”. Detailed session reports of the responsible Working Group leaders are available in the working group area.

Prizes have been awarded for the detailed presentation of some highly advanced projects:

Sincerely,

Fredy Hediger

Aachen, July 9^th 2002

Status, update

Please note that the address of our internet presence has changed:

http://www.cost526.de

The previous URL is still valid.

Sincerely

Fredy Hediger

Aachen, June 13^th 2002

Status, update

The "First Joint Working Group Meeting" was kindly hosted by InSIC - Institut Superieur d'Ingénierie de la Conception at Saint-Dié des Vosges (F).

My hearty thanks to Prof. Jean-Louis Batoz for his excellent organization!

In the three Working Group sessions, current status of 19 projects (of altogether 23) was reported on by the respective project leaders. Five interdisciplinary presentations were given in Working Group 4: "Optimization Methodologies". Four prizes were awarded for the detailed presentation of some highly advanced projects:

• Half-yearly project reports are expected for August 30, 2002. A template will be available on the website by the end of June.
• The budget for STSM has been released by the COST secretary.
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Sincerely

Fredy Hediger

Aachen, May 13^th 2002

Status, update

The "First Joint Working Group Meeting" is kindly being hosted by InSIC (Institut Supérieur d'Ingénierie de la Conception) on 21/22 May, 2002. Please find all necessary information via this web page and pay attention to the details given in the working group area.

Sincerely

Fredy Hediger

Aachen, February 22^nd 2002

Status, update

So far 24 project proposals have been approved by the Management Committee of COST 526. A list of participants can be found on this web page.

Sincerely

Fredy Hediger

Aachen, August 31^st 2001

Status, update

The Management Committee has evaluated 18 research proposals on June 29, 2001 in Brussels. A 2nd call for proposals has been opened.

deadline: 30 September 2001

Sincerely

Fredy Hediger

Aachen, April 1^st 2001

Status, update

The official "call for proposals" is open from

April 1st until May 31st 2001.

For detailed information please read: Call for Proposals.

Sincerely

Fredy Hediger

Aachen, Dec. 15^th 2000

Status, update

The first meeting of the Management Committee will take place on Monday, Dec. 18th 2000 in Brussels.

The following countries have so far signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU):

• Belgium
• Great Britain
• Finland
• Slovenia
• Czech Republic
• Germany
• Denmark
• Hungary
• Switzerland

Sincerely

Fredy Hediger

Aachen, May 25^th 2000

Status, update

The following countries have signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU):

• Belgium
• Great Britain
• Finland
• Slovenia
• Czech Republic
• Germany

The first meeting of the Management Committee will be organized in due course, followed by an official call for proposals.

Sincerely

Fredy Hediger

Aachen, December 29^th 1999

Status, update

The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed so far:

• Belgium, 28 July 1999
• Great Britain, 23 Aug. 1999
• Finland, 22 Sept. 1999

I am looking forward for the German signature in due course. After the fifth signature a Management Committee will be formed to launch a call for proposals.

Proposals for the virtual broker area are still welcome!

Sincerely

Fredy Hediger

Aachen, May 21^st 1999

Status, update

On January, 21st 1999, the Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) has approved the proposed COST-Action APOMAT.

As soon as the first five countries will have signed this action a management committee (MC) will be constituted. A first meeting of the MC will take place approx. in Sept. /Oct. 1999 followed by a "call for proposals".

Sincerely

Fredy Hediger

Aachen, December 12^th 1998

Status of the proposed COST action APOMAT

To all potential participants of APOMAT,

I have presented the assessment of the pre-screening on APOMAT to the Technical Committee (TC) Materials on the 27 of October '98 at Brussels.

The TC has finally approved this new action which will be presented to the CSO (Committee of Senior Officials) on the 21-22 January '99. This is a rather formal act followed by the official Memorandum of Understanding, provided that at least five participating countries have signed this new action. After this, CSO meeting I will try to speed up the procedure in order to have an official call for proposals as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, please read carefully the document "Assessment of Pre-screening", available on this web page.

There are several conclusions and suggestions in order to improve most of the existing proposals in the broker area. Especially the interaction with partners on a European level cannot be found or should be pointed out more clearly. The synoptic sheet is a useful guideline in order to formulate good proposals. The broker area is still open for new proposals! Thank you for your participation.

Sincerely

Fredy Hediger

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