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24TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON OPERATIONAL RESEARCH  (EURO XXIV)
Lisbon, Portugal, July 11-14, 2010

www.euro2010lisbon.org

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 24th European Conference on Operational Research, EURO XXIV, will
be held at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, FCUL.

This large conference is organized by EURO (The Association of European
OR Societies) and APDIO (The Portuguese OR Society), with the support
of FCUL and CIO (Operational Research Centre, Portugal).

The Programme and Organizing Committees, chaired by Silvano Martello
and Jose Paixao, respectively, are preparing a high quality scientific
programme and an exciting social programme for the Conference.

We hope that the unique yet heterogeneous character of seductive Lisbon
will tempt you to come, and help turning this into a memorable event,
both scientifically and socially.

PLENARY SPEAKERS:
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John F. Nash, Jr.,
Harold W. Kuhn.

INVITED SPEAKERS:
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Fran Ackermann,
Noga Alon,
James Cochran,
Elena Fernandez,
Pierre Hansen,
Martine Labbe,
Nelson Maculan,
Michel Minoux,
Arkadi Nemirovski,
Stefan Reichelstein,
Alexander Shapiro,
Stef Tijs.

CALL FOR PAPERS AND SESSIONS:
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We invite all researchers, academicians, practitioners, as well as
students interested in any branch of operational research, mathematical
modelling or economic analysis to participate in the conference and to
present their papers.

Invited and contributed papers will be organized in parallel sessions,
with three or four papers in each session. In general, sessions will
be a part of conference streams, and streams are grouped by areas.

Researchers who want to organize an invited session or contribute a
paper within an invited session should contact the PC member in charge
of the interested area.

No participant can present more than one paper at the Conference. 
Abstract submission and registration are done online, via the Conference web page. 
Abstracts: max. 600 characters; submission deadline: Feb 28, 2010

AREAS:
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(and PC members in charge; see contacts further below)
- Continuous Optimization  >> GW Weber,
- Control Theory & System Dynamics  >> GW Weber,
- Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery & Artificial Intelligence  >> D Bouyssou,
- DEA and Performance Measurement  >> EK Burke,
- Decision Analysis, Decision Support Systems  >> D Bouyssou,
- Discrete Optimization, Geometry & Graphs  >> J Blazewicz,
- Emerging Applications of OR  >> G Woeginger,
- Energy, Environment and Climate  >> G Woeginger,
- Financial Modelling & Risk Management  >> GW Weber,
- Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing  >> D Pisinger,
- Game Theory, Mathematical Economics  >> GW Weber,
- Location, Logistics, Transportation & Traffic  >> S Nickel,
- Metaheuristics  >> D Pisinger,
- Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Optimization >> D Bouyssou,
- OR Education, History, Ethics  >> JF Oliveira,
- OR for Development and Developing Countries >> GW Weber,
- OR in Health & Life Sciences  >> J Blazewicz,
- OR in Industry, and Software for OR  >> S Nickel,
- OR in Natural Resources  >> GW Weber,
- Production Management & Supply Chain Management  >> S Nickel,
- Revenue Management & Managerial Accounting  >> EK Burke,
- Scheduling, Timetabling & Project Management  >> J Blazewicz,
- Simulation & Stochastic Programming and Modelling  >> G Woeginger,
- Soft OR and Problem Structuring Methods  >> D Bouyssou,
- Telecommunication & Networks  >> JF Oliveira.

KEYWORDS:
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Adaptive Memory Programming - Agent-Based Modelling - Agriculture - Airline Applications - Analytic Hierarchy Process - Analytic Network Process - Anticipatory Systems - Artificial Intelligence - Auctions and Bidding - Bioinformatics & Computational Biology - Business Intelligence - Capacity Planning - Combinatorial Optimization - Complex Societal Problems - Complexity and Approximation - Computer Science - Continuous Optimization - Convex Optimization - Cost-Benefit analysis - Critical Decision Making - Cutting and Packing - Data Envelopment Analysis - Data Mining - Decision Analysis - Decision Support Systems - Decision Theory - Developing Countries - Disaster and Crisis Management - Dynamical Systems - Economies and Societies in Transition - Economic Modelling - Education and Distance Learning - Efficiency and Productivity Analysis - Electronic Services - Energy and Emission Markets - Energy Policy and Planning - Engineering Optimization - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems - Environmental Management - Ethics - Evolutionary Optimization - Experimental Economics - Expert Systems - Facilities Planning and Design - Finance and Banking - Financial Modelling - Flexible Manufacturing Systems - Forecasting - Forest Management - Fuzzy Sets and Systems - Game Theory - Global Optimization - Governance and Development - Graphs and Networks - Grid Computing - Group Decision Making and Negotiation - Health Care Management - Human Centered Processes - Human Resources Management - Industrial Optimization - Innovation and Technology Management - Interior Point Methods - International Business - International Collaboration - Internet - Inventory Management - Knowledge Discovery - Knowledge Engineering and Management - Large Scale Optimization - Location Analysis - Logistics - Machine Learning - Management Information Systems - Managerial Accounting - Marketing - Mathematical Programming - Medical Applications - Metaheuristics - Military & Defence - Modelling Systems and Languages - Multi-Criteria Decision Aid - Natural Resources - Network Design - Neural networks - Non-smooth Optimization - Open Source Software - Optimal Control - Optimization in Financial Mathematics - Optimization Modeling - Parallel Processing - Problem Structuring Methods - Production - Profession of OR - Programming (Dynamic, Integer, Linear, Multi-Objective, Quadratic, Semi-Infinite, Semidefinite, Sequential Quadratic, Stochastic, ...) - Project Management and Scheduling - Public Sector - Quality Management - Queuing Systems - Reliability - Research and Development - Revenue Management and Pricing - Reverse Logistics / Remanufacturing - Risk Analysis and Management - Robust Optimization - Rostering - Routing - Scheduling - Simulation - Software for OR/MS Analysis - Sports - Stochastic Models - Strategic Planning and Management - Supply Chain Management - Sustainable Development - System Dynamics - Telecommunications - Timetabling - Transportation - Utility Systems - Variational Problems - Warehouse Design, Planning, and Control - Web-based Information Systems - Workflow Management Systems - XML Standards for Optimization

IMPORTANT DATES:
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Deadline for abstract submission:  February 28, 2010,
Notification of acceptance:  March 15, 2010,
Deadline for early registration:  March 31, 2010,
Deadline for author registration (for inclusion in the programme): April 30, 2010,
Conference: July 11-14, 2010.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
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Chair:  Silvano Martello, Italy     (silvano.martello@euro2010lisbon.org),
Jose Paixao (OC Chair), Portugal    (jose.paixao@euro2010lisbon.org),
Jacek Blazewicz, Poland             (jacek.blazewicz@euro2010lisbon.org),
Denis Bouyssou, France              (denis.bouyssou@euro2010lisbon.org),
Edmund K. Burke, UK                 (edmund.burke@euro2010lisbon.org),
Marielle Christiansen, Norway       (marielle.christiansen@euro2010lisbon.org),
Stefan Nickel, Germany              (stefan.nickel@euro2010lisbon.org),
Jose Fernando Oliveira, Portugal    (jose.fernando.oliveira@euro2010lisbon.org),
David Pisinger, Denmark             (david.pisinger@euro2010lisbon.org),
Gerhard Wäscher, Germany            (gerhard.waescher@euro2010lisbon.org),
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Turkey       (gerhard.wilhelm.weber@euro2010lisbon.org),
Gerhard Woeginger, The Netherlands  (gerhard.woeginger@euro2010lisbon.org).

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
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Chair:  Jose Paixao, Portugal (PT),
Silvano Martello (PC Chair), Italy,
Gerhard Wäscher (EURO VP), Germany,
Joaquim Borges Gouveia, PT,
Maria Eugenia Captivo, PT,
Domingos Cardoso, PT,
Manuel Furtado Martins, PT,
Joao Chambel Leitao, PT,
Jose Fernando Oliveira, PT,
Joao Patricio, PT,
Ana Paula Povoa, PT,
Antonio Proenca, PT,
Antonio Rodrigues, PT,
Joao Miguel Telhada, PT,
Jose Valerio de Carvalho, PT,
Margarida Vaz Pato, PT.

AWARDS:
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During the EURO XXIV conference the following prizes will be awarded:
- The EURO Gold Medal 2010,
- The EURO Distinguished Service Medal (EDSM 2010),
- The EURO Management Science Strategic Innovation Prize (MSSIP 2010),
- The EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award (EDDA 2010),
- The EURO Excellence in Practice Award (EPA 2010).

THE PROGRAMME IN BRIEF:
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The Conference starts July 11 (Sunday), 5pm, with the Opening Session,
including the awards ceremony. 
This will be followed by the Welcome Reception at 7pm. 
Meanwhile, inveterate football fans will have the opportunity to follow 
the World Cup final (starting 7:30 pm) in a large screen.

The working sessions will occupy most of the 3 following days,
July 12-14 (Mon-Tue-Wed), and will start, on Monday morning,
with a plenary session with the keynote by Nobel laureate John Nash.

The Conference Dinner will be held on July 13, at Sala Tejo,
adjacent to Pavilhao Atlantico -- an intriguing and emblematic venue 
of contemporary Lisbon, near the river estuary (www.pavilhaoatlantico.pt).
The Conference ends with another social event, not to be missed:
the Farewell boat trip, on Tagus River, on the late afternoon of July 14.

REGISTRATION FEES:
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- Regular:  320 Euros (early); 420 Euros (late),
- Student:  170 Euros (early); 220 Euros (late),
- Accompanying persons: 120 Euros.
NB: Early fees applicable until March 31, 2010

The regular/student registration fee includes:
- Participation in all sessions, and access to the exhibition area,
- Conference materials (Final Program, Book of Abstracts),
- Participation in the Welcome Reception (July 11),
- 3-day travel card,
- Coffee breaks and lunches (July 12-14),
- Participation in the Farewell boat trip (July 14).

The registration fee for accompanying persons includes:
- Participation in the Welcome Reception, and the Farewell boat trip,
- Lisbon-Estoril-Sintra tour,
- 3-day travel card,
- Lunches.

The Conference dinner is charged separately, at 70 Euros per person.

FURTHER INFORMATION:
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We recommend participants:
1. to book their flights through the official air transport operator,
   TAP Portugal: discounts are applicable for the Conference; and,
2. to book accommodation through the Conference webpage:
   our official travel agency, Abreu, has secured a large number of rooms
   in a variety of hotels in Lisbon at specially negotiated rates.

For more details, consult the conference site, www.euro2010lisbon.org,
where all relevant information will progressively be included.

Further proposals for Book or Software Exhibitions, Workshops,
and the edition of special issues of Journals are welcome.

Email addresses:
- prog@euro2010lisbon.org          (Programme),
- registration@euro2010lisbon.org  (Registration, travel & accommodation),
- info@euro2010lisbon.org          (General enquiries).