Dear friends and colleagues, Luis Gouveia and myself are organizing the stream Network Optimization and Telecommunications of the forthcoming IFORS Conference Melbourne, 10th – 15th July, 2011. If you would like to submit a paper for the stream, please visit http://www.euro-online.org/conf/ifors2011/ and use invitation code 7cedb321 If (even better!) you would like to organize a full session of 3-4 papers, please contact me directly. Best regards, Bernard Fortz --- Call for Papers 19th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies 10th – 15th July, 2011 Melbourne, Australia World OR: Global Economy and Sustainable Environment Recent natural catastrophes and man-made crises have underscored the inter-connectedness of our world. Any upheaval leads to momentous reverberations across the globe with impacts well into the future. Now more than ever, Operational Research is of strategic importance to address problems critical to the economy and the environment. Academics and practitioners are invited to share their knowledge, experience and insights on theory, methodology and application of operational research to issues of vital concern to the global community. The Opening Plenary talk “Optimal Choice Sets: How tightly should we regulate?” will be given by Sir James Mirrlees, Trinity College, Cambridge, Nobel laureate in Economics 1996. Abstract Submission now open: Papers on all aspects of Operational Research are invited. Authors wishing to present are requested to submit an abstract of not more than 100 words via the Abstract Submission system at: http://www.euro-online.org/conf/ifors2011/ Abstract Submission deadline: 31st January, 2011 The scientific program includes over 50 invited streams covering all aspects of Operations Research, see the Program section of the conference webpage: http://www.ifors2011.org. For program enquiries, please contact the Programme Committee Chair: Prof. Janny M.Y. Leung Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong Phone: +(852) 2609-8238 E-mail: jleung@se.cuhk.edu.hk IFORS Prize for OR in Development: Submissions are invited of papers describing a practical OR application in a developing country, related to education, health, water, technology, resource use, infrastructure, agriculture, environmental concerns, etc. Enquiries should be sent to the Prize Committee Chair: Dr. Subhash Datta, Director NIILM Centre for Management Studies Plot No. 53, Knowledge Park V, Greater Noida, UP. India E-mail: subhash.datta@gmail.com Deadline for full paper submission: 30th December, 2010 Conference Organising Committee: For general enquiries, please contact the Conference Organising Committee: Chair: Dr Patrick Tobin School of Arts and Sciences (Vic) Australian Catholic University Melbourne Campus (St Patrick's) Patrick.Tobin@acu.edu.au Phone: +61 3 9953 3199 Fax: +61 3 9495 6141 Secretary: Ms. Kaye Marion Senior lecturer in Operations Research and Statistics School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences RMIT University k.marion@rmit.edu.au Phone: +61 3 9925 3162 Treasurer: Assoc Prof Paul Lochert plochert@bigpond.net.au Phone: +61 3 9802 4628 Organising Committee: Prof Baikunth Nath Computer Science and Software Engineering University of Melbourne baikunth@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 3 8344 1400 Prof John Hearne Head, School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences RMIT University John.hearne@rmit.edu.au Phone: +61 3 9925 2283 Prof Natashia Boland School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences University of Newcastle Natashia.Boland@newcastle.edu.au Phone: +61 2 4921 6717 Fax: +61 2 4921 6898 Invited Streams and Organisers: Airline Applications Matthias Ehrgott m.ehrgott@auckland.ac.nz Analytic Hierarchy Process Josef Jablonsky Jablon@vse.cz Applied Probability Peter Taylor P.Taylor@ms.unimelb.edu.au Approximation Algorithms Hans Kellerer hans.kellerer@uni-graz.at Bioinformatics Ceyda Oguz coguz@ku.edu.tr Combinatorial Optimization Silvano Martello silvano.martello@unibo.it Constraint Programming (CP-AI) Jimmy Lee jlee@cse.cuhk.edu.hk Mark Wallace Mark.Wallace@infotech.monash.edu.au Natashia Bolland Natashia.Boland@newcastle.edu.au Continuous Optimisation Gerhard Wilhelm Weber gweber@metu.edu.tr Cutting and Packing David Pisinger pisinger@diku.dk Jose Oliveira jfo@fe.up.pt Data Envelopement Analysis Ali Emrouznejad a.emrouznejad@aston.ac.uk Discrete Optimisation Gerhard Reinelt gerhard.reinelt@informatik.uni-heidelberg.de Michael Juenger mjuenger@informatik.uni-koeln.de Dynamic Programming Thomas Archibald T.Archibald@ed.ac.uk Lidija Zadnik-Stirn Lidija.Zadnik@bf.uni-lj.si Economics of Operations Chung-Piaw Teo bizteocp@nus.edu.sg Education Jim Cochran jcochran@cab.latech.edu Emergency Evacuation and Response Elise Miller-Hooks elisemh@umd.edu Forestry applications Andres Weintraub aweintra@dii.uchile.cl Fuzzy Logic Janos Fodor fodor@bmf.hu Game Theory Fouad El Ouardighi elouardighi@essec.fr Health Care Applications Leonid Churilov lchurilov@nsri.org.au Integer Programming Sungsoo Park sspark@kaist.ac.kr Intelligent Optimisation Leo Lopes Leo.Lopes@monash.edu KateSmith-Miles kate.smith-miles@sci.monash.edu.au Knowledge and Knowledge Work A.D. Amar A.D.Amar@shu.edu Knowledge Management and Data Mining Jo Smedley Jo.Smedley@newport.ac.uk Maritime Transportation and Logistics Harilaos Psaraftis hnpsar@central.ntua.gr Heng Soon Gan hsg@unimelb.edu.au Marketing and OM Interface Kathryn Stecke Kstecke@utdallas.edu Meta-heuristics Celso Riberio celso@inf.puc-rio.br Stefan Voss stefan.voss@hamburg.de Military, Defense and Security Applications Greg Parlier gparlier@ida.org Mining Applications Alexandra Newman anewman@mines.edu Lou Caccetta caccetta@maths.curtin.edu.au Multicriteria Decision Analysis and Decision Support Theo Stewart theodor.stewart@uct.ac.za Jyrki Wallenius Jyrki.Wallenius@hse.fi Roman Slowinski roman.slowinski@cs.put.poznan.pl Network Optimisation and Telecommunications Luis Gouveia legouveia@fc.ul.pt Bernard Fortz bernard.fortz@ulb.ac.be Non-linear discrete optimisation Duan Li dli@se.cuhk.edu.hk Xiaoling Sun xls@fudan.edu.cn Non-linear optimisation Ya-xiang Yuan yyx@lsec.cc.ac.cn Non-smooth optimisation Andrew Eberhard andy.eb@rmit.edu.au Jon Borwein jon.borwein@gmail.com Regina Burachik Regina.Burachik@unisa.edu.au Operations Management Candi Yano yano@ieor.berkeley.edu OR and Energy Markets Andy Philpott a.philpott@auckland.ac.nz OR and Marketing Christopher Tang chris.tang@anderson.ucla.edu OR and Real Implementation Ben Lev blev@umich.edu OR and Sports Tristan Barnett strategicgames@hotmail.com OR and Sustainable Development Subhash Datta subhash.datta@gmail.com Devanath Tirupati devnath@iimb.ernet.in OR Applications in Energy Ilhan Or or@boun.edu.tr OR Practice John Ranyard jranyard@cix.co.uk OR software Bjarni Kristiansson bjarni@maximalsoftware.com Public Transit Dennis Huisman huisman@few.eur.nl Revenue Management Luce Brotcorne luce.brotcorne@inria.fr Scheduling Wieslaw Kubiak wkubiak@mun.ca Service and Health Care Operations Chon Goh cgoh@camden.rutgers.edu Kumar Rajaram krajaram@anderson.ucla.edu Service Science and Sustainability Chung-Yee Lee cylee@ust.hk Grace Lin gracelin.ny@gmail.com Soft OR and Problem Structuring Leroy White Leroy.White@bristol.ac.uk Software Engineering Baikunth Nath baikunth@unimelb.edu.au Stochastic optimisation and applications Laureano Escudero laureano.escudero@urjc.es Stochastic programming Abdel Lisser Abdel.Lisser@lri.fr Ruediger Schultz schultz@math.uni-duisburg.de Submodular Structures and Optimization Satoru Fujishige fujishig@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp Supply Chain Management Nesim Erkip nesim@bilkent.edu.tr Tava Lennon Olsen olsen@wustl.edu Supply Chain Management in China Jian Chen chenj@em.tsinghua.edu.cn Time-Definite Logistics Richard Wong rtwong@ups.com Transportation Michel Gendreau michelg@crt.umontreal.ca Maria Grazia Speranza speranza@eco.unibs.it Travel Behaviour Michel Bierlaire michel.bierlaire@epfl.ch Vehicle Routing Richard Eglese R.Eglese@Lancaster.ac.uk Arne Løkketangen Arne.Lokketangen@HiMolde.no