ORBEL 37 - call for abstracts / registration is open

The 37th annual conference of the Belgian Operational Research Society (ORBEL 37) will take place on May 25-26, 2023 at HEC Liège. The conference will be fully in-person, all speakers must be present in Liège.

Our guest plenary speakers will be

• Prof. Maria Grazia Speranza, Università degli Studi di Brescia
• Prof. Stefan Røpke, Technical University of Denmark

Contributed papers

We invite all researchers, practitioners, and students with an interest in optimization, simulation, data science, and other quantitative methods for decision making to participate in the conference and to present their work in any field of methodology or application:

• continuous, discrete or stochastic optimization, graphs and networks, multicriteria decision making, decision theory, game theory, simulation, time series analysis, queueing theory, complexity theory, data mining, text mining, machine learning, etc.
• supply chain management, production planning, scheduling, project management, transportation and traffic management, service operations management, energy management, DEA and performance management, financial modelling, etc.
• 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, in sports, in media and entertainment, etc.

Abstract submission

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract in English, in LaTeX format, up to two A4 page-long. They should also provide 3 keywords (by order of importance). The template to be used can be found on the website https://www.orbel.be/orbel37/callpapers.php .

Practicalities

The conference will feature parallel sessions with the contributed talks. Each contributed talk will be allocated 20 minutes, presentation and questions included.

Important dates

• Abstract submission deadline: April 3, 2023
• Notification of acceptance: May 2, 2023
• End of early registration: May 15, 2023
• Conference: May 25-26, 2023

Registration is open. For more information, please visit the conference website: https://www.orbel.be/orbel37/registration.php

We look forward to welcoming you in Liège on May 25-26!

The local organizers