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ORP3

A EURO Conference for young OR researchers

Aims and Scope

ORP3 is the EURO peripatetic conference, each edition of which is hosted by a renowned European centre in Operations Research. It is organised biannually and is devoted to the Operational Research field in its broadest sense. Previous conferences have been held in Paris (2001), Lambrecht (2003), Valencia (2005) and Guimarães (2007).

ORP3 aims at being a forum promoting scientific and social exchanges between the members of the future generation of Operations Research in academic research and industry.

The conference is open to the whole scope of Operations Research, but the following topics are mostly welcome:

• Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
• Discrete Optimization; Graphs & Networks
• Location Theory
• Transportation and Logistics
• Game Theory
• Network Optimization
• Multicriteria Optimization
• Production Management; Supply Chain Management
• Routing Problems

The conference is composed only of plenary sessions and each participant will act as the chair and discussant of another session. In addition at least two tutorial sessions are planned with 1 hour and 30 minutes each.

The conference is based on a full paper submission.

Conference Venue

The conference will be held in the Department of Statistics and Operation Research from Cádiz University, Spain.

The conference will take place from 13 to 16 of September 2011, in the Cádiz campus, at the Faculty of Business and Economics, located close to one of the most emblematic beaches of the city.

The city of Cadiz is currently a well-established tourist destination, where congress, leisure and beach cultural, cruise and gastronomic tourism has opened up new ways of development.

The province of Cadiz has a civil airport 5 kilometres from Jerez de la Frontera and 45 kilometres from Cádiz, see http://www.cadizturismo.com for more information. On the other hand, Seville airport, San Pablo, with direct flights to the main Spanish cities and abroad, is only 110 kilometres from the capital of Cadiz.

Scientific and Organizing Committee

The scientific committee is formed by well established researchers in the field of Operations Research:

Members of the local organizing committee are:

Participation

Participation is limited to a group of about 35 students. In order to attend ORP3 as a participant you must satisfy one of the following conditions:

• A young PhD student
• A young post doctoral OR researcher (maximum two years after completing your doctoral thesis at the deadline for submission)
• A young OR analyst (maximum two years of professional experience at the deadline for submission)

The selection of participants is made by the scientific committee on the basis of full paper submissions of publishable quality in an international OR journal.

Co-authored papers are acceptable as long as they are presented by a participant satisfying the aforementioned requirements.

Submission of papers

The conference is based on a full paper submission. The paper submission may be in a PDF or Postscript format sent through the conference web site. After being accepted the participants are requested to send the source files of the paper in a LaTeX. The LaTeX style file will be available for download from the conference web site.

Important dates

Further Information

For further information send your request by e-mail to antonio.rodriguezchia@uca.es.