Invited Streams And Organisers

Airline Applications
Matthias Erghott 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

Continuous and Non-Smooth Optimisation
Gerhard Wilhelm Weber gweber@metu.edu.tr
Andrew Eberhard andy-eb@rmit.edu.au
John Borwein jon.borwein@gmail.com
Regina Burachik Regina.Burachik@unisa.edu.au

Cutting and Packing
Jose Oliveira jfo@fe.up.pt
David Pisinger pisinger@diku.dk

Data Envelope Analysis (DEA)
Ali Emrouznejad a.emrouznejad@aston.ac.uk

Discrete Optimisation
Gerhard Reinelt gerhard.reinelt@informatik.uni-heidelberg.de
Michael Juenger mjuenger@informatik.uni-heidelberg.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

Finance
Rita Decclesia rdecclesia@ems.bbk.ac.uk

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
Kate Smith-Miles kate.smith-miles@sci.monash.edu.au
Leo Lopes Leo.Lopes@monash.edu

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 Ribeiro 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
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

Operations Management
Candi Yano yano@ieor.berkeley.edu

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 Strategy
Martin Kunc Martin.Kunc@wbs.ac.uk

OR and Sustainable Development
Subhash Datta subhash.datta@gmail.com
Devnath Tirupati devnath@iimb.erenet.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@univ-valenciennes.fr

Scheduling
Wieslaw Kubiak wkubiak@mun.ca

Service and Health Care Operations
Chon Goh chenj@emtsinghua.edu.au
Kumar Rajaram krajaram@anderson.ucla.edu

Service Science and Sustainability
Chung-Yee Lee cylee@ust.hk
Grace Lin graceline.ny@gmail.com

Simulation
Bahar Biller billerb@andrew.cmu.edu

Soft OR and Problem Structuring
Leroy White Leroy.White@bristol.ac.uk

Software Engineering
Baikunth Nath baikunth@unimelb.edu.au

Stochastic Optimisation and Application
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 t.olsen@auckland.ac.nz

Supply Chain Management in China
Jian Chen chenj@em.tsinghua.edu.cn

Time-Definite Logistic
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

Call For Papers

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.

Opening Plenary
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 Deadline Extended to 28 February, 2011!!! ***

Click Here to submit your abstract

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 by 28 February 2011 to: http://www.euro-online.org/conf/ifors2011/
Click on Program to see a list of organisers of invited streams.

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

Keynote Speakers

Professor Sir James Mirrlees

Presentation Title: Optimum Choice Sets: How Tightly Should We Regulate?

A pioneer in optimal taxation theory, Professor Sir James Mirrlees was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1996 in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information. He was knighted in 1997. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 1957, Professor Mirrlees was admitted to Trinity College at Cambridge University and received his PhD in Economics in 1963. From 1968 to 1995 he was Edgeworth Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Nuffield College. From 1995 to 2003, he served as Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge. He has been Distinguished Professor-at-Large since 2002 and Master of Morningside College since 2009 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Mirrlees has also held visiting professorships at MIT, UC-Berkeley, Yale and Melbourne.

Dr Brenda Dietrich

Presentation Title: Operations Research for a Smarter Planet.

Brenda Dietrich is an IBM Fellow and Vice President in the IBM Research Divisions. She leads IBM's research activities in Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences, and supports software products and consulting in these areas. She is responsible for both basic research in computational mathematics and related fields, and the development of novel business applications based on the application of mathematical models within industry. She has been the president of INFORMS, and is an INFORMS Fellow. She holds a dozen patents, has co-authored numerous publications, and co-edited the book Mathematics of the Internet: E-Auction and Markets. She holds a BS in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina and an MS and Ph.D. in OR/IE from Cornell. Her personal research includes manufacturing scheduling, services resource management, transportation logistics, integer programming, and combinatorial duality.

Professor Daniel Ralph

Presentation Title: Risk Modelling, Stochastic Programming and Investment in Power Plants.

Daniel (Danny) Ralph is Professor of Operations Research at Cambridge Judge Business School and Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge. He is a founder and Academic Director of the Centre for Risk Studies.

Danny received his PhD in 1990 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He lectured in the Mathematics & Statistics Department at The University of Melbourne before coming to Cambridge University in 2000 for a joint appointment in the Engineering Department and Judge Business School.

Danny's interests include optimization methods, economic models for electricity markets, and risk in business decision making. He is a member of several editorial boards of academic journals and Editor-in-Chief of Mathematical Programming (Series B). He is also a non-executive board member of The Møller Centre at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

Awards And Prizes

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
(Prize Chair)
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: 15 January, 2011.

Information For Speakers

Guidelines for Speakers for Melbourne IFORS 2011

Presentation Format:
PowerPoint, pdf, Keynote or Prezi can be accommodated. See attached note for technical details of presentation equipment and instructions for preparation.

There is a Speaker Preparation Room for use during the conference. Presentations can be loaded in the meeting room just prior to the session, or preloaded earlier to the central server (please bring a USB to the Speaker Preparation Room).

To Find Your Own Session:
All sessions will be held in the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Each session is identified with a code - for example, MC11, where:

• The first letter is the day of the week (H for Thursday).
• The second letter is the time block.
• The number is the track, which refers to the room location.

Use the Author Index at the back of the printed program - the session code for your presentation(s) will be shown. Then refer to the full session listing for the location of your session(s).

To ensure a smooth presentation:

• Arrive at your session at least ½ hour early for A/V set-up.
• Limit your presentation to key issues with a brief summary.
• Time your presentation to fit within the designated time span, leaving time for audience questions.
• Each session is 90 minutes. For sessions with 4 talks, please limit your presentation to 20 minutes, thus allowing time for questions and changeover. For sessions with 3 or fewer talks, please limit your talk to 28 minutes.
• You can bring copies of your paper or other handouts to distribute to interested audience members or have them contact you directly after the conference for additional information.

Please download the Presenter Information Sheet.

Guideline for Session Chairs for Melbourne IFORS 2011

Before the session:

• Check the conference program for the session time and room location (be sure to check the Addenda sheet as well as the printed program)
• Know the authors and paper titles for your session
• Arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the start of the session, to verify if the speakers are present, and to familiarize yourself with the controls for lights, microphone and AV equipment.

At the session:

• Start the session on time
• Introduce the session and each speaker
• Keep the session on schedule
• Divide presentation time and discussion time equally among speakers
• Moderate the discussion period after each paper is presented
• Notify Room Monitor immediately of any assistance needed
• Complete the Session Chair Report with a count of the number of attendees in the room (about 10 minutes after the session starts)