Dear Friends,

Luis Gouveia and myself are in charge of the streams Network Optimization and Telecommunications for the next IFORS conference (see CfP below).

If you would like to submit a paper in these streams or want to organize a session, please let us know.

Best regards, Bernard Fortz

--- Second 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

**** 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/

Important Dates: Deadline for contributed abstracts: 15 December 2010 Deadline for invited abstracts: 15 January 2011

For info on invited streams, see the Program section of the conference webpage: http://www.ifors2011.org.

For 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 Jaipuria Institute of Management 1 Bambala Institutional Area, Pratap Nagar, Jaipur ­ 302033 India e-mail: subhash.datta@gmail .com or sdatta@jimj.ac.in

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 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 Health Care Applications Leonid Churilov lchurilov@nsri.org.au Integer Programming Sungsoo Park sspark@kaist.ac.kr Knowledge Management and Data Mining Jo Smedley Jo.Smedley@newport.ac.uk Learning and Intelligent Optimisation Kate Smith-Miles kate.smith-miles@sci.monash.edu.au Marine Transportation and Ports Harilaos Psaraftis hnpsar@central.ntua.gr 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 Luis Gouveia legouveia@fc.ul.pt 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 Production Chung-Yee Lee cylee@ust.hk 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 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 Telecommunications Bernard Fortz bernard.fortz@ulb.ac.be 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