ORBEL, the Belgian Operations Research society
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Our Society: ORBEL   The Belgian Operations Research society, also known as SOGESCI-B.V.W.B.

SOGESCI-B.V.W.B. is the Belgian Society for the promotion of scientific methods of management. Its goal is to contribute to the diffusion of new tools, methods and knowledge in the fields of Operational Research, Statistics, Pattern Recognition and related disciplines. It also aims at stimulating research in the above fields as well as developing the cooperation between researchers and with the industry and business, both on national and international levels.

You may download the activity reportNEW for the year 2009, as well as those for 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2003.

The Society counts more than one hundred members. It represents Belgium in a number of international associations and federations of national societies including

  • EURO, the European Association of Operational Research Societies (ORBEL representatives are Pierre Kunsch and Bernard Fortz),
  • IFORS, the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, (ORBEL representative is Bernard Fortz)

Those associations play an important role, in particular by organizing large international conferences, summer or winter schools, publishing journals and newsletters, awarding prizes, supporting working groups. Several members of SOGESCI-BVWB are very active in those associations and occupy important positions therein.

The composition of the Board of Administration can be found below, as well as the Executive Committee.

 

Services to the members

The Society offers his members a number of services including

  • free subscription to its journal 4OR,
  • organisation of yearly conferences and workshops,
  • awarding of a the Sogesci-BVWB thesis award
  • email newsletter about OR-related call for papers, job offers, books, seminars and conferences,
  • etc.
 
How to become a member  
In order to become a member of ORBEL, you should download the registration form for 2010 here and follow the instructions therein to pay your member dues.

Membership fees for 2010 and 2011:

  • personal membership: 55 EUR
  • student / retired: 30 EUR
  • institutional membership: 50 EUR per person (with a grouped payment for a minimum of 3 persons)
Please note it is possible to anticipate payment of the fees for 2011, at the 2010 rates.
 
Contact    
Our President  
  Prof. Patrick De Causmaecker,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Department of Computerscience
Subfaculty of Sciences at KUL@K
CODeS & itec research groups
Office: KUL@K campus, E. Sabbelaan 53, B-8500 Kortrijk, Belgium (room C743).		   Tel: +32 56 246002
Fax: +32 56 246052
email: Patrick.DeCausmaecker@kuleuven-kortrijk.be
website: http://www.kuleuven-kortrijk.be/~pdecausm/		 Patrick De Causmaecker
Treasurer
in charge of memberships		  
  Prof. Bernard Fortz,
Département d'Informatique,
Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 210/01
Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.		   Tel: + 32 2 6503095
email: bernard.fortz@ulb.ac.be		 Bernard Fortz
 
    Members of the Board of Administration 
Elected for the years
2009 and 2010		  
  • Aghezzaf, El Houssaine
  • Bisdorff, Raymond
  • Despontin, Marc
  • Labbé, Martine
  • Loute, Etienne
  • Sartenaer, Annick
  • Spieksma, Frits
  • Springael, Johan
  • Sörensen, Kenneth
  • Trauwaert, Etienne
  • Van Utterbeeck, Filip
Elected for the years
2010 and 2011		  
  • Arda, Yasemin
  • Brans, Jean-Pierre
  • Crama, Yves
  • De Baets, Bernard
  • De Causmaecker, Patrick
  • De Smet, Yves
  • Fortz, Bernard
  • Glineur, François
  • Janssens, Gerrit
  • Kunsch, Pierre
  • Marchant, Thierry
  • Pastijn, Hugo
  • Pirlot, Marc
  • Plastria, Frank
  • Schyns, Michaël
  • Vanden Berghe, Greet
  • Vansteenwegen, Pieter
  • Wittevrongel, Sabine
 
    Members of the Executive Committee (2010)






 
  • President: Patrick De Causmaecker
  • Vice-presidents: Frank Plastria, Etienne Loute, Gerrit Janssens, Raymond Bisdorff
  • President-elect:
  • Treasurer: Bernard Fortz
  • Secretary: Johan Springael
  • Delegate Administrator: Pierre Kunsch
  • Link with OM Partners: Marc Pirlot
  • ORBEL award matters: Pierre Kunsch
  • Newsletter: Sabine Wittevrongel
  • Archives keeper: Filip Van Utterbeeck
  • Webmaster: François Glineur
 
Links with (inter)national societies    






 
  • Link with NGB, the Dutch OR society: Frits Spieksma
  • Link with the Belgian Statistical Society (BSS): Michaël Schyns
  • Link with Roadef, the French OR society: François Glineur
  • Link with GOR, the German OR society: Raymond Bisdorff
  • Link with the United Kingdom OR society: Patrick De Causmaecker
  • Representatives EURO, Association of European Operational Research Societies: Bernard Fortz and Pierre Kunsch
  • Representative IFORS, International Federation of Operational Research Societies: Bernard Fortz