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Dear Colleagues,
The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to December 9, 2009.
Best regards,
C. Yugma
(http://www.orpagroup.net/ORPA2010/
<http://www.orpagroup.net/conference.html>).
Preliminary call for papers
*THIRD CONFERENCE ON OPERATIONAL RESEARCH PRACTICE IN AFRICA
*
*Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), Dakar, Senegal
18-20 March, 2010*
We are pleased to give a notice of the above OR conference scheduled for
Dakar in March 2010, at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD). The
third OR Practice in Africa (ORPA) conference follows on from the
meeting which jointly took place with the National conference of the OR
society of South Africa in Cape Town, in September 2007. The 2010 ORPA
conference will focus on the use of Operations Research (OR) in Africa
to aid development and promote sustainable growth through the use of
some of the cutting edge techniques to our field. This year, the
following OR applications are of special interests:
OR in Transport and Logistic
§ /Urban Transport Network Design/
§ /Public transportation studies : design and optimization/
§ /Traffic Control/
§ /Multimodal Freight Network Design/
§ /Vehicle routing: applied in waste collection, bus
itineraries, etc./
§ /Optimization of port operations/
§ /etc./
OR in Energy and Environment Management
§ /Renewable Energy System Optimization/
§ /OR in natural resources management/
§ /Operational Research Models in the management of Agricultural
Resources/
§ /Operational Research Models in the management of Forestry
Resources/
§ /Optimization in Soil Sciences/
§ etc. //
OR in Water Resources Management
§ /Water Network Design, Management and Control/
§ /D//elivery //W//ater //R//esource //M//anagement //Optimization/
§ /Real-time management of Water Resources/
§ /Etc./
Fundamental OR topics helping to model and solve problems associated to
such applications are also encouraged. A non-exhasutive list of such
topics are:
· /Integer Programming ( linear, quadratic, non-linear),/
· /Multicriteria Optimization,/
· /Global Optimization,/
· /Stochastic Programming,/
· /Scheduling,/
· /Metaheuristics,/
· /Graphs,/
· /etc.
/
The conference is intended to bring academics to discuss and present
some of the most recent developments in our field. It is also intended
as a vehicle to bring industry and the academic world together in order
to produce effective and accurate relationships that may result in
effective and beneficial implementations of OR.
Full details of the meeting are available on the conference web site
(http://www.orpagroup.net/ORPA2010/
<http://www.orpagroup.net/conference.html>).
Key dates are the following:
November 2, 2009: Deadline for submission of
abstracts
January 1, 2010 Deadline for
conference registration
*UCAD organizing committee chair: *Dr Babacar Ndiaye and* *Pr Diaraf SECK
*ORPA chairman:* Dr Eric Soubeiga
*ORPA board member:* Dr. Serigne Gueye
*
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