[Apdio] 23RD EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

["Jose F. Oliveira" <jfo@fe.up.pt>]

WELCOME TO EURO XXIII

23RD EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
Bonn, Germany, July 5 - 8, 2009

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

http://www.euro-2009.de/

The 23nd European Conference on Operational Research, EURO XXIII,
is organized by the Gesellschaft fuer Operations Research (GOR) e.V.
in co-operation with the University of Siegen and will be held in the
Gustav-Stresemann Institute and the Maritim Hotel in Bonn. The Programme
and Organising Committee are preparing a high quality academic programme
of the Conference. In addition to this, you will have an excellent
opportunity to exploit the city and vicinity of Bonn! A history of more
than 2000 years has given the city most appealing and memorable facets.
Bonn is an international center of science, arts and politics. You will
enjoy the picturesque impressions along the romantic Rhine, Bonn's
international and political life or the magnificent Ahr wine region.
Culture is inseparably linked to the works of Ludwig van Beethoven,
but also of Robert Schumann, August Macke and Ernst Moritz Arndt.

On behalf of all organizers, we wish you will have a pleasant stay
in Bonn, with many unforgettable memories to take back home.

Gerhard Woeginger
Chair, Programme Committee

Erwin Pesch
Chair, Organizing Committee

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission for abstracts starts:  October 2008
Deadline for abstract submission:  March 1, 2009
Notification of acceptance:  March 31, 2009
Deadline for early registration:  April 1, 2009
Deadline for author registration
(for inclusion in the programme): April 15, 2009
Conference: July 5-8, 2009

Closer information about Bonn, Accomodation,
Conference Venue, Book and Software Exhibitions and the
Social Programme you will find under
http://www.euro-2009.de/.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Chair:  Gerhard Woeginger, The Netherlands
Horst Hamacher,  Germany
Graham Kendall, Great Britain
Bernhard Korte,  Germany
Jan Karel Lenstra,  The Netherlands
Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger,  Austria
Silvano Martello,  Italy
Benny Moldovanu,  Germany
George Nemhauser, USA
Erwin Pesch,  Germany
Juan-José Salazar-González, Spain
Roman Slowinski,  Poland
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Turkey

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Chair:   Erwin Pesch, Germany
Co-chair: Peter Letmathe,  Germany
Josef Jablonsky,  Czech Republic
Florian Jaehn, Germany
Jose M.P. Paixao, Portugal
Frank Schultmann, Germany
Gerhard Waescher,  Germany (VP EURO)
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Turkey

CONTACT
Prof. Dr. Erwin Pesch
Institute of Information Systems, FB 5
University of Siegen
57068 Siegen
Germany
Phone:   0049  271 - 740 2420
Fax:   0049 271- 740-2940

CONFERENCE TOPICS
We invite all researchers, academicians, practitioners, as well
as students interested in all branches of operational research,
mathematical modeling and economic analyses to participate
at the conference and to present their papers in the following
areas:

-  Continuous optimization and control
-  Data mining; knowledge discovery; artificial intelligence
-  DEA and performance management
-  Decision analysis; decision support systems; modelling languages
-  Discrete optimization; graphs & networks
-  Energy, environment & climate
-  Financial modelling; risk management; banking
-  Fuzzy sets; softcomputing
-  Game theory; mathematical & experimental economics
-  Health, life sciences & bioinformatics
-  Location; logistics; transportation; traffic
-  Metaheuristics & biologically inspired approaches
-  Multiple criteria decision making, optimization & group decision
-  OR education, history & ethics
-  OR for developing countries
-  OR in agriculture & natural resources
-  OR in industries & software applications
-  Production management; supply chain management
-  Revenue management & managerial accounting
-  Scheduling, time tabling & project management
-  Stochastic programming; stochastic modelling; simulation
-  System dynamics; dynamic modelling
-  Telecommunication & network analysis

SESSIONS
Invited and contributed papers will be organized in parallel
sessions of 90 minutes, with three or four papers in each session.
Abstracts can be submitted via the Conference web page -
www.euro-2009.de/. Every participant can present no more than
one paper at the Conference.

Invited and contributed sessions will generally be a part of
conference Streams which are grouped by Main Streams. Their lists
together with responsible organizers are presented on the conference
web page (see Main Streams and Accepted Streams). Researchers who
want to organize an invited session or contribute a paper within an
invited session should contact the stream organizer, Main Stream
organizer or a corresponding member of the PC with their proposals.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Ramji Balakrishnan (University of Iowa, USA)
Rainer Burkard (Graz, Austria, EURO Gold Medal 1997)
Edmund Burke (Nottingham, UK)
Ulrich Dorndorf (INFORM Aachen, Germany)
Salvatore Greco (Catania, Italy)
Toshihide Ibaraki (Kobe, Japan)
Hubertus Th. Jongen (Aachen, Germany)
Andrea Lodi (Bologna, Italy)
Rolf Moehring (Berlin, Germany)
Noam Nisan (Jerusalem, Israel)
Christos Papadimitriou (IFORS distinguished lecturer)
Franz Rendl (Klagenfurt, Austria)
Bernard Roy (Paris, France, EURO Gold Medal 1992) /
            Jose Figueira (Coimbra, Portugal)
Nitin Saxena (Bonn, Germany; Goedel Prize 2006, Fulkerson Prize 2006)
Reinhard Selten (Bonn, Germany; Nobel Prize 1994)
Michael Trick (Pittsburgh, USA)
Jens Vygen (Bonn, Germany)
Gideon Weiss (Haifa, Israel)

PRIZES AND AWARDS
During the EURO XXII conference the following prizes will be awarded:

The EURO Gold Medal
The EURO Distinguished Service Medal
The EURO Excellence in Practice Award (EEPA 2009)
The EURO Management Science Strategic Innovation Prize (MSSIP 2009)
The EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award (EDDA 2009)

REGISTRATION FEES
Regular Early (before April 1, 2009):  340 Euros
Regular Late (after April 1, 2009):   440 Euros
Student Early (before April 1, 2009):   180  Euros
Student Late (after April 1, 2009):   280 Euros
Accompanying persons:  120 Euros
Banquet (Tuesday night):   70 Euros

THE REGISTRATION FEE INCLUDES
-    Participation in all sessions
-    Access to the exhibition during the EURO Conference
-    Conference materials (Final Program, Book of Abstracts)
-    Participation in the Welcome Reception
-    Coffee breaks
-    Lunches

SATELLITE EVENTS
There are some scientific events in preparation already,
organized by EURO Working Groups and their friends:

-  7th EUROPT Workshop 'Advances in Continuous Optimization',
University of Applied Sciences, Remagen (near Bonn), Germany,
July 3-4, 2009.

-  A EURO ORD Workshop on OR for Developing Countries  ---
Young Researchers and PhD Symposium, Remagen, July 4, 2009.

Please visit the link Workshops.

SPECIAL ISSUES
We are collecting and at the homepage announcing Calls for Papers for
precious special issues succeeding EURO 2009.

TOURS and EXCURSIONS (see also Attractions on www.euro-2009.de)

Half-day or one day excursions are offered to
(details will be provided soon)

(1) Cologne and the more than 750 year old Gothic cathedral,

(2) Effelsberg Radio Observatory:  Exploring the secrets of the Universe;
   one of the world's largest fully steerable telescopes,

(3) The world's highest cold water geyser in Andernach,

(4) Romantic medieval flair of the Rhine and its castles: city of Koblenz
   and its fortress Ehrenbreitstein; the 800 years old castle Marksburg,

(5) Satzvey Castle, one of the most beautiful and best maintained moated
   castles in North Rhine-Westphalia; Rur river dam as one of the main
   drinking water reserviors; Historic center and the Mustard Mill of
   Monschau at the Rur river,

(6) The motorsport race track Nuerburgring including a trip on the
   "Northern Loop"; Germany's largest red wine area: the winery Mayschloss
   and the historical center of Ahrweiler; Maria Laach Abbey, an almost
   1000 years old Benedictine abbey situated on the shore of the Lake 
Laach.

The organizers of EURO XXIII 2009 are looking forward to welcoming you
to Bonn and sharing with you an exciting time of premium science and
precious community and everlasting friendship --- truly, a
Once-in-a-Lifetime experience!