Wednesday, January 5, 2011

[DMANET] OR 2011 Zurich, August 30 to September 2 --- Abstract submission now OPEN

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OR 2011 - International Conference on Operations Research
Zurich, Switzerland, August 30 to September 2, 2011

Second Announcement /

OR 2011 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION NOW OPEN

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We invite all members of the OR/MS community to submit their abstracts!

Hans-Jakob Luethi, chair organizing committee
Head of Institute for Operations Research (IFOR)
ETH Zurich

Karl Schmedders, chair program committee
Head of Institute for Operations Research (IOR)
University of Zurich

SCOPE


This international conference on operations research will take place in Zurich, Switzerland.

The conference of the three German speaking OR societies GOR, OEGOR and SVOR is under the patronage of the Swiss OR Society (SVOR) and hosts at the same time the respective annual meetings of the three OR societies.

The main goal of the conference is to bring together members of the international OR community to discuss scientific progresses in various subfields of OR in a truly interdisciplinary spirit.


PLENARY LECTURES


Dimitris J. Bertsimas, MIT, Cambridge
- Topic: Stochastic programming

Kenneth L. Judd, Hoover Institute, Stanford
- Topic: Computational economics

William Pulleyblank, IBM / West Point Academy
- Topic: Large-scale optimization in industry and science


SEMI-PLENARY LECTURES


Sally Brailsford, University of Southampton

Peter Bühlmann, ETH Zurich

Daniel Costa, Nestlé Suisse S.A.

Paul Embrechts, ETH Zurich

Karl Isler, Swiss International Air Lines

Sven Leyffer, Argonne National Laboratory

Todd Munson, Argonne National Laboratory

Yurii Nesterov, Université catholique de Louvain

Gernot Tragler, TU Vienna

Rudolf Vetschera, University of Vienna

Stefan Voss, University of Hamburg

Robert Weismantel, ETH Zurich

TOPICS



1. Continuous optimization and control
2. Discrete optimization, graphs and networks
3. Decision analysis, decision support
4. Energy, environment and climate
5. Financial modeling, risk management, banking
6. Game theory, computational and experimental economics
7. Health, life sciences, bioinformatics
8. Location, logistics, transportation and traffic
9. Metaheuristics and biologically inspired approaches
10. Network industries and regulation
11. OR in industry, software applications, modeling languages
12. Production management, supply chain management
13. Scheduling, time tabling and project management
14. Stochastic programming, stochastic modeling and simulation
15. Accounting and revenue management
16. Forecasting, neural nets and fuzzy systems

IMPORTANT DATES


- Deadline abstract submission: April 30, 2011
- Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2011
- Opening submission of paper for proceedings: May 30, 2011
- Deadline submission of paper for proceedings: June 30, 2011

SUBMISSION DETAILS


The deadline for OR 2011 abstract submission is Saturday, April 30, 2011 and will not be extended.
The authors will be informed about the acceptance of their contribution until May 30, 2011.
After notification of acceptance of the abstract authors might submit a paper for the refereed proceedings (max. 6 pages, Latex, Springer templates).


Link to the online abstract submission: http://www.or2011.ch/submission/

WEBSITE


For further information, please visit the website:
http://www.or2011.ch/

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