ORBEL 29: annual meeting

ORBEL29

Call for papers and update

?University of Antwerp
5/6 February 2015
http://www.orbel29.be?

The next ORBEL conference, the yearly conference of the Belgian Operational Research Society, will take place at the University of Antwerp on 5 and 6 February 2015.

This conference is the meeting point of the Operational Research Community in Belgium and its neighboring countries. It is an excellent opportunity for researchers, young and old, to present their work and make contact with people working on related subjects.

Conference topics include (but are not limited to):

• continuous, discrete or stochastic optimization, graphs and networks, multicriteria decision making, decision theory, game theory, simulation, queueing theory, complexity theory, data mining, ...;
• supply chain management, production planning, scheduling, project management, transportation and traffic management, energy management, DEA and performance management, financial modelling, ...;
• applications in industry, in the energy sector, in life sciences and in bioinformatics, in public services, in engineering, in sports, in health care institutions, in banking, in telecommunications, ...;

*** Update: Plenary speakers ***

Marc Sevaux (Univ. Bretagne Sud, F) will give a talk on the use of OR techniques to manage wireless sensor networks.

Nick Street (Univ. Iowa, US) will discuss the use of OR in Big Data.

To present your work at ORBEL29, we invite you to submit a two-page abstract through the conference website (www.orbel29.be).

Important dates:

• Abstract submission: Friday, January 2, 2015.
• Abstract acceptance: Friday, January 9, 2015.
• Early registration: Friday, January 16, 2015.
• Conference: February 5 - 6, 2015.

For more information, registration or abstract submission, go to the conference website:

http://www.orbel29.be

We look forward to meeting you in Antwerp, on 5 and 6 February 2015!

The local organizers