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Dear colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit a paper to the 1st International
Symposium & 10th Balkan Conference (BALCOR 2011) on Operational
Research, and we kindly ask you to circulate this call in your
institution, among your colleagues and students.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee
Prof. Athanasios Migdalas (PC Chair)
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Second Call for Papers for BALCOR 2011, September 22 - 25, 2011
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1st International Symposium
&
10th Balkan Conference (BALCOR 2011)
on
Operational Research
September 22 - 25, 2011, Thessaloniki, Greece
University of Macedonia, Economic and Social Sciences
website: http://balcor.uom.gr
call for papers: http://balcor.uom.gr/cfp.pdf
The 1st International Symposium & 10th Balkan Conference on Operational
Research will be held at the University of Macedonia, Economic and
Social Sciences in Thessaloniki, Greece, September 22 - 25, 2011. The
conference will be co-organized by the Macedonia - Thrace Branch of
Hellenic Operational Research Society and the University of Macedonia.
Scope:
BALCOR is an international conference which traditionally gathers
operational researchers with objective to present both theoretical and
applied results. The main benefits are the successful exchange of ideas
and information of interest to operational research and the promotion of
international co-operation, especially among the Balkan countries.
Furthermore, distinguished invited keynote speakers will participate at
the conference.
Conference Topics:
We invite all researchers, academicians, practitioners, as well as
students interested in all branches of operational research,
mathematical modeling and decision making to participate at the
conference and to present their current research in the following
indicative areas:
- Banking & Financial Decision Making
- Combinatorial Optimization & Integer Programming
- Construction Project Management
- Data Envelopment Analysis & Performance Measurement
- Data Mining Analytics for Business Intelligence
- Decision Support Systems
- E-Commerce in Operations Management
- Game Theory
- Parallel Processing in O.R. & Grid Computing
- Heuristics, Metaheuristics & Nature Inspired Optimization Algorithms
- Linear & Nonlinear Programming
- Locational Analysis
- Logistics & Supply Chain Management
- Marketing & Operations Management
- Mathematical Programming
- Military Operational Research
- Mathematical Modeling & Decision Making
- Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis & Multi-Objective Optimization
- Network Optimization & Telecommunications
- Optimization Software
- Optimal Control
- O.R. in Agriculture and Forest Management
- Project Management & Scheduling
- Risk Analysis & Management
- Statistics & Stochastics
- Structural Optimization
Conference Proceedings:
All accepted papers will be included either in Conference Proceedings
published by Springer-Verlag (pending approval) or will be included in
additional local proceedings that will be distributed during the
conference.
Publication in Special Issues:
The Organizing Committee, together with the respective Editor-in-Chiefs
and Associative Editors, will invite best conference papers for
consideration (in extended form - after revision), in the following
journals:
- Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (JOTA), Springer
Berlin/Heidelberg.
- Optimization - A Journal of Mathematical Programming and Operations
Research, Taylor & Francis Publications.
- Information Systems and e-Business Management (ISeB), Springer
Berlin/Heidelberg.
- International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems
(IJORIS), IGI Global.
- International Journal of Decision Support System Technology (IJDSST),
IGI Global.
All invited papers will be refereed according to the standards of the
respective journal.
Invited Speakers (not completed yet)
P. Pardalos, University of Florida (USA)
V. Paschos, Université Paris Dauphine (France)
Chairman of the Conference:
A. Migdalas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, (Greece)
Organizing Committee:
G. Arabatzis, Democritus University of Thrace (Greece)
C.K. Georgiadis, University of Macedonia (Greece)
L. Karamitopoulos, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki (Greece)
V. Kostoglou, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki (Greece, O.R. Branch
Macedonia-Thrace chairman)
J. Papathanasiou, University of Macedonia (Greece)
A. Sifaleras, University of Macedonia (Greece)
E. Stiakakis, University of Macedonia (Greece)
Prizes & Awards:
Best paper award in various streams & optimization software licenses
from the conference sponsors LINDO Systems, Inc. & Banxia Software
Ltd.
Important Dates:
Deadline for full paper submission: March 21, 2011
Notification of acceptance: April 11, 2011
Deadline for camera-ready papers submission: May 2, 2011
Deadline for early registration: May 2, 2011
Deadline for late registration: July 4, 2011
Conference dates: September 22 to September 25, 2011.
Submissions should be uploaded to the EasyChair Conference system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=balcor2011
Contact:
Dr. Angelo Sifaleras, Lecturer in Operational Research - Combinatorial
Optimization
E-mail: <mailto:sifalera@uom.gr> sifalera@uom.gr,
Tel. +30-2310-891881, Fax +30-2312 201009
BALCOR 2011 organization committee: balcor@uom.gr
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