================================================= CLAIO XVII / CSMIO III Joint ALIO/SMIO Conference Monterrey, Mexico 6-10 October 2014 http://pisis.fime.uanl.mx/claio2014/ =================================================

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite members of the Latin-Iberian-American Association of Operations Research (ALIO) and the worldwide Operational Research (OR) community to take part in the XVII Latin-Iberian-American Conference on Operations Research held jointly with the III Conference of the Mexican Society of Operations Research (CLAIO/CSMIO 2014) in Monterrey, Mexico, October 6-10, 2014. The academic program will consist of parallel, technical and special sessions, plenary talks and tutorials covering several aspects of OR.

PAPER / ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

To participate, a 200-word abstract must be submitted. Additionally, an 8-page paper going through a review process may be submitted. Papers and abstracts may be written in Spanish, English, or Portuguese, the three official languages of CLAIO. Accepted papers of registered authors will be published in the conference proceedings CD-ROM with an ISBN. All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference book of abstracts.

A post-conference special issue of "Annals of Operations Research" devoted to the best works of the conference will be published. See details in the conference web site.

IMPORTANT DATES

01/Jan/2014 Paper/abstract submission begins. 01/Mar/2014 Paper submission deadline. 01/May/2014 Abstract submission deadline. 15/May/2014 Paper acceptance/rejection notification. 01/Jun/2014 Abstract acceptance/rejection notification. 15/Jun/2014 Camera-ready paper deadline.

CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS

Carlos Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico Elena Fernandez, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Hector Cancela, Universidad de La Republica, Uruguay Jonathan F. Bard, U. of Texas at Austin, USA

COMMITTEES

Conference Chairs: Jose Luis Gonzalez-Velarde (Tecnologico de Monterrey) and Roger Z. Rios (UANL)

Program Committee Chair: Manuel Laguna (U. of Colorado)

Organizing Committee: Ada Alvarez (UANL), Angelica Salazar (UANL), Fernando Camacho (UANL), Iris Martinez (UANL), Maria Temblador (Tecnologico de Monterrey), Romeo Sanchez (UANL), Tomas Snchez (Tecnologico de Monterrey), Yajaira Cardona (Tecnologico de Monterrey), Yasmin Rios (UANL)

See you in Monterrey!!!!