WORMS Brian's Digest: Conferences


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Fri, 18 Dec Volume 5: Issue 51

Date: 16 Dec 1998 17:15:11 GMT
From: gecco@illigal.ge.uiuc.edu (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference)
Subject: GECCO-99 Student Workshop

CALLING ALL STUDENTS IN EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION,
DNA COMPUTATION, AGENTS, and ARTIFICIAL LIFE!!

Call for Participation

GECCO-99 Student Workshop
Date: Tuesday July 13, 1999
Submission Deadline: April 1, 1999

Students with research topics focused on genetic and evolutionary computation, DNA computation, Artificial Life and Agents are invited to apply to participate in the 1999 GECCO Student Workshop. Approximately 12 students will be selected to present a 15-20 minute synopisis of their current research to a mentor panel, other students and selected participants at the day-long workshop. Each presentation will be followed by questions and discussion prompted by the mentor panel. To apply submit, via email, a one page poster-style synopsis of your research. Reports of research at all stages are welcome.

Details: Location: Omni Rosen Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA Acceptance Date: May 1, 1999 What to submit: A one page poster-style paper reporting research results. WWW: http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/unamay/gecco-phd/gecco-cfp.html


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 23 Nov Volume 5: Issue 47

Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:57:07 +0100
From: Philippe Geril <Philippe.Geril@rug.ac.be>
Subject: ESM'99 (13th European Simulation Multiconference), Warsaw, Poland UPDATE
Dear Colleagues,

this is to inform you that paper submission deadline for this 13th annual event have been moved to December 15th, 1998.

More information about the event can be found on http://hobbes.rug.ac.be/~scs/

Best Regards

Philippe Geril


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Tue, 9 Nov Volume 5: Issue 46

Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:15:02 -0700
From: "Hans R. Ryffel" <operating@icsc.ab.ca>
Subject: World Manufacturing Congress 1999
ANNOUNCEMENT / CALL FOR PAPERS

We try to avoid duplicated mailings and apologize if they do occur.

SECOND WORLD MANUFACTURING CONGRESS (WMC'99)

http//www.icsc.ab.ca/wmc99.htm

September 27-30, 1999
at the Universities at Sunderland and Durham, U.K.

WMC'99 is organized in conjunction with the NORTHERN MANUFACTURING EXHIBITION 1999

Date: 11 Nov 1998 07:59:07 GMT
From: klinz@fmatbhp1.tu-graz.ac.at (Bettina Klinz)
Subject: IPCO 99 (Graz) - Last Call for Papers

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // // // Last Call For Papers // // // // Seventh Conference on // // Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization // // // // IPCO '99 // // // // June 9-11, 1999 // // // // TU Graz, Graz, Austria // // // ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// URL: http://www.opt.math.tu-graz.ac.at/ipco99/


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Tue, 9 Nov Volume 5: Issue 46

Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:42:10 +1000
From: "Tommy Chen" <s050481@student.uq.edu.au>
Subject: APCOM'99 call for paper.
Dear all,

APCOM'99 will be held at Singapore in 15-17 Dec. 1999. Feel free to visit our web site for details http://www.eng.nus.edu.sg/civil/Conference/apcom99/


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Tue, 9 Nov Volume 5: Issue 44

Date: 5 Nov 1998 17:08:06 -0500
From: rich@cs.umd.edu (Richard Gerber)
Subject: RTSS98 Registration/Hotel Deadline NOW - Final Announcement

======================================================================= THE 19TH IEEE REAL-TIME SYSTEMS SYMPOSIUM (RTSS'98) Madrid, Spain December 2-4, 1998 Sponsors: - The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems - The Technical Univerity of Madrid. ======================================================================= <xmp> The Time is NOW:<p> * Hotel Regsitration: 7 November 98<br> * Early Registration: 15 November 98<p> Editor's Note:<p> If you received multiple notices throughout this year, thanks for your forbearance in putting up with them. This is the last one you'll receive. See you in Madrid!<p> Contents:<p> * Conference Overview and Technical Program.<br> * Advance Registration and Hotel Information.<br> * Program for PLRTI - IEEE Workshop on Programming Languages for Real-Time Industrial Applications<br> * Call For Demos: The RTSS Industrial Exhibition.<p> WWW: <a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/~rich/rtss98/" target="_top">http://www.cs.umd.edu/~rich/rtss98/</a> <center><hr><font color="darkcyan">SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest <b>Mon, 2 Nov Volume 5: Issue 44</font></b><hr></center><p> <a name="11_44_98"> </a> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 17:07:56 GMT<br> From: ciardo@cs.wm.edu (Gianfranco Ciardo)<br> Subject: Petri Nets '99<br> <centrer> REMINDER:<p> November 16, 1998 is the deadline for submission of papers and tool presentations to the<p> 20th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLICATION AND THEORY OF PETRI NETS<p> (ICATPN'99)<p> </center><p> to be held at the College of William an Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, on June 21-25, 1999.<p> The URL for the Call for Papers is <a href="http://www.daimi.aau.dk/PetriNets/annce/icatpn99/" target="_top">http://www.daimi.aau.dk/PetriNets/annce/icatpn99/</a><p> Thank you,<p> -- Gianfranco Ciardo<p> <a name="4_44_98"> </a> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:32:22 +1100<br> From: Rodney Beard &lt;r.beard@mailbox.uq.edu.au&gt;<br> Subject: CFP: 15th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research<br> Full details at <a href="http://www.math.fsc.qut.edu.au/asor/" target="_top">http://www.math.fsc.qut.edu.au/asor/</a><p> <center><hr><font color="darkcyan">SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest <b>Mon, 26 Oct Volume 5: Issue 43</font></b><hr></center><p> <a name="13_43_98"> </a> Date: 19 Oct 1998 18:59:15 GMT<br> From: klinz@fmatbhp1.tu-graz.ac.at (Bettina Klinz)<br> Subject: IPCO 99 (Graz) - Second Call for Papers<br> <xmp> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // // // Second Call For Papers // // // // Seventh Conference on // // Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization // // // // IPCO '99 // // // // June 9-11, 1999 // // // // TU Graz, Graz, Austria // // // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

http://www.opt.math.tu-graz.ac.at/ipco99/
Date: 19 Oct 1998 19:34:09 GMT
From: klinz@fmatbhp1.tu-graz.ac.at (Bettina Klinz)
Subject: ESA 99 (Prague) - Call for Papers (ASCII-version)
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // // // Call For Papers // // // // Seventh Annual European Symposium on Algorithms // // // // ESA '99 // // // // July 16-18, 1999 // // // // Prague, Czech Republic // // // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
http://www.ms.mff.cuni.cz/esa99/


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 5 Oct Volume 5: Issue 40

Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 10:17:00 +0100
From: Hugh Bradley <h.d.bradley@durham.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP: CAPE'99 (Computer-aided Production Engineering Conference)

CALL FOR PAPERS

15th International Conference on

COMPUTER-AIDED PRODUCTION ENGINEERING

CAPE'99

19-21 April 1999
University of Durham, UK

CONFERENCE WEB SITE: http://www.dur.ac.uk/cape.99


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 21 Sep Volume 5: Issue 38

Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 00:19:55 GMT
From: sr@netcom.com (Software Research)
Subject: Quality Week Europe (QWE'98) http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QWE98/

2nd International Quality Week Europe (QWE'98)

9-13 November 1998

Sheraton Hotel, Place Rogier Plein

Brussels, Belgium

http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QWE98/


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Tue, 8 Sep Volume 5: Issue 36

Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 13:17:43 GMT
From: hlynka@uwindsor.ca (Myron Hlynka)
Subject: Detroit Inst. of Art / CORS Conference, June 1999
The 41st National Conference of the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) will be held June 7 - 9, 1999 in Windsor, Ontario. The theme is "Operational Research in Motion". See http://www.cors.ca/windsor/ or contact either the General Chair Dr. Richard Caron (rcaron@uwindsor.ca) or the Program Chair Dr. David Stanford (stanford@fisher.stats.uwo.ca) for more information.


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 31 Aug 98 Volume 5: Issue 35

Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 14:42:32 -0500
From: Steve Goddard <goddard@cse.unl.edu>
Subject: RTSS Work In Progress

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RTAS'98 19th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium December 2-4, 1998 Madrid, Spain SESSION ON WORK IN PROGRESS Sponsored by IEEE-CS TC-RTS Call for Contributions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ URL: http://www.cse.unl.edu/rtss98wip/


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 24 Aug 98 Volume 5: Issue 34

Date: 24 Aug 1998 04:29:38 -0400
From: rich@cs.umd.edu (Richard Gerber)
Subject: RTSS '98 - Call for Participation

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The 19th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium
Madrid, Spain
December 2-4, 1998

Sponsored by The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems

WWW: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~rich/rtss98/

Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 09:04:26 -0400
From: Michael Trick <trick+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: INFORMS 2000
Hi all!

INFORMS is changing the its conference format, beginning in the Fall of 2000. Briefly, INFORMS will offer:

This change in format was first discussed with the membership last spring, and modifications to the proposal were presented to the INFORMS board a couple of weeks ago.

There is a page at INFORMS Online on this change ( http://www.informs.org/INFORMS2000/" ). On that page is a discussion area soliciting ideas for how to make the General Conference and the Practice Conference successful. If you have some ideas, or want to know more about the change and its reasons, please visit the page.

Best, Mike

------------------------------------------------------ Michael Trick, Graduate School of Industrial Administration Carnegie Mellon University,Pittsburgh, PA 15213 trick+@cmu.edu http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/ President, Carnegie Bosch http://cbi.gsia.cmu.edu/ Editor, INFORMS Online http://www.informs.org/ ------------------------------------------------------

SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 17 Aug 98 Volume 5: Issue 33

Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:56:37 +0100
From: Jenny Brightman <jennyb@banxia.com>
Subject: Data Envelopment Analysis/ Frontier Analyst Workshop
**Apologies if you subscribe to multiple lists and therefore receive this message more than once**

**Please do not hit reply to respond to this message, please reply to the email address given below**

A data envelopment analysis workshop is being held in London (UK), on Monday 28th September 1998, which will be run by Strategic Leadership Sciences and Banxia Software.

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a proven technique for assessing the relative performance of organisational units. It gives you detailed insights into how your business units are performing, so that you can quickly identify and target those critical areas which will have the greatest impact on improved performance. Unlike other performance measurement tools, DEA allows you to undertake an objective, comprehensive and integrated assessment of performance and develop strategies to counter identified weaknesses.

Frontier Analyst is a Windows based performance measurement system, which uses the DEA technique. It is a fully-featured decision support application that has been designed around the needs of today's managers and business analysts. Data is presented visually, using a number of graphical displays, allowing easy interpretation and communication of results. More information about the DEA technique and Frontier Analyst can be found on our web pages at http://www.banxia.com. Or for further details, course fees etc, please contact us by email to training@banxia.com, telephone 0141 552 3082, fax 0141 552 5765.

Regards,

Jenny Brightman jennyb@banxia.com Banxia Software Ltd +44 (0) 141 552 3082 +44 (0) 141 552 5765 http://www.banxia.com Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 21:02:18 GMT
From: hlynka@uwindsor.ca (Myron Hlynka)
Subject: 41st Canadian Operational Research Society Conference
The 41st Canadian Operational Research Society Conference will be held June 7-9, 1999 in Windsor, Ontario. For information, see http://www.cors.ca/windsor/.


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Tue, 11 Aug 98 Volume 5: Issue 32

Date: 10 Aug 1998 16:18:18 +0200
From: Hans-Christian Pahlig <pahlig@zib.de>
Subject: ICM'98 Opening Ceremony Live in the Internet
Dear Colleague:

On Tuesday, August 18, the Opening Ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM'98) in Berlin will be broadcast live on the internet.

A highlight of the Opening Ceremony is the awarding of the Fields Medals and the Nevanlinna Prize, sometimes called the "Nobel" prizes of Mathematics.

For the first time in ICM history mathematicians throughout the world will have a chance to participate in one of the most important events in mathematics. Please inform your friends and colleagues who do not have the possiblity to experience the Opening Ceremony in person about this service.

The transmission will be done via MBone under the title "ICM'98 Opening Ceremony" during the following periods of time

Tuesday, August 18 10:00 - 12:30 Central European Summertime (CEST) 14:30 - 16:00 Central European Summertime (CEST) This covers the whole Opening Ceremony and the speeches on the achievements of the winners of the Fields Medal and the Nevanlinna Prize.

To give you an orientation,

Berlin 10:00 (this is CEST) corresponds to Los Angeles 1:00 am New York 4:00 am Johannesbourg 10:00 am Moscow 12:00 pm Bombay 1:30 pm Bangkok 3:00 pm Beijing 4:00 pm Tokyo 5:00 pm Sydney 6:00 pm To give mathematicians in America a chance to view the ICM opening during daytime, we will REPEAT THE TRANSMISSION from 18:00 to 22:00 Central European Summertime (CEST) (leaving out the break).

For more information on this Mbone transmission, on the program of the Opening Ceremony and on ICM'98 in general see the ICM'98 server, http://elib.zib.de/ICM98/

We hope that you will join us in Berlin!

Sincerely

Martin Groetschel
President of the ICM'98 Organizing Committee


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 27 July 98 Volume 5: Issue 30

Date: 20 Jul 1998 19:41:22 GMT
From: klinz@fmatbhp1.tu-graz.ac.at (Bettina Klinz)
Subject: IPCO 99 (Graz) - Call for Papers (ASCII-version)

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// // // // Call For Papers // // // // Seventh Conference on // // Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization // // // // IPCO '99 // // // // June 9-11, 1999 // // // // TU Graz, Graz, Austria // // // /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// URL: http://www.opt.math.tu-graz.ac.at/ipco99/


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 27 July 98 Volume 5: Issue 30

Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:56:15 -0400
From: Zhi-Long Chen <zlchen@seas.upenn.edu>
Subject: INFORMS Conferen General Reception
Dear Colleague:

We (Department of Systems Enginneering, Univ of Pennsylvania) are organizing the INFORMS 1999 Fall Conference (in Philadelphia) and would like to know your thoughts. You may know there is usually a dinner reception in every INFORMS meeting. In this reception, meeting participants may talk to colleagues, and old/new friends, besides enjoying free food.

We would like to know what aspects (room space, time, food, service, music, light, ...) you think can make a reception dinner attractive and fun?

Please reply to me at zlchen@seas.upenn.edu. I will appreciate any comments/suggestions you have.

Thanks,

Zhi-Long ************************************************************** Zhi-Long Chen, Assistant Professor Office: 278 Towne Building Department of Systems Engineering Phone: (215) 573-4757 University of Pennsylvania Fax: (215) 573-2065 220 South 33rd Street Email: zlchen@seas.upenn.edu Philadelphia, PA 19104-6315 http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zlchen ************************************************************** ------------------------------

SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 13 July 98 Volume 5: Issue 28

Date: 4 Jul 1998 15:32:40 GMT
From: rjw@hopper.unh.edu (Richard J Wallace)
Subject: DIMACS Workshop Attendance Requests

REMINDER

formal requests for attendance - as participant, facilitator
or author - due by July 8 (details below)
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Workshop on Constraint Programming and Large Scale Discrete Optimization

September 14-17, 1998
DIMACS, Rutgers, New Jersey, USA
Call For Participation
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A Workshop on Constraint Programming and Large Scale Discrete Optimization will be held as part of the DIMACS 1998-1999 Special Year on Large Scale Discrete Optimization.

The Special Year CFP indicates that:

"This special year is motivated by developments in the past ten years. There have been three simultaneous advances: at the algorithmic level, with new and interesting algorithms for solving large scale discrete problems both exactly and approximately; at the implementation level, providing codes and systems for solving such problems; and at the practical level, with interests in the fast solution of real world problems. Examples of such applications include airline crew scheduling, chemical process design, and telecommunication network design. Our goal in this year is to unite these groups. The confluence of exciting recent work on approximation and other algorithms and greatly improved software/hardware for optimization makes large scale discrete optimization a practical, useful approach to solving problems of practical interest." For more information on the special year program see:

http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/SpecialYears/1998_1999/index.html


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 28 June 98 Volume 5: Issue 27

Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:59:29 +0200
From: Philippe Geril <Philippe.Geril@rug.ac.be>
Subject: European Simulation Symposium Final CFP
Dear Colleagues,

At this moment in time we have received some 115 abstract/paper submissions for the annual 1998 European Simulation Symposium which will be held from October 26-28, at the Nottingham Trent University, UK on the following subjects:

Our aim, however, is to bring the total number of abstracts to at least 180 and therefore we are requesting submissions especially in the areas of Chemistry, Business and Finance, AI, and Human Centred Simulation, as these areas are somewhat under-represented at this moment in time.

You can of course, also still send something in for the other categories

The submission deadline is set for July 15th.

More information about the event can be found on http://hobbes.rug.ac.be/~scs/conf/ess98/

Date: 4 Jul 1998 15:32:40 GMT
From: rjw@hopper.unh.edu (Richard J Wallace)
Subject: DIMACS Workshop Attendance Requests

REMINDER

formal requests for attendance - as participant, facilitator or author - due by July 8 (details below)

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Workshop on Constraint Programming and Large Scale Discrete Optimization

September 14-17, 1998
DIMACS, Rutgers, New Jersey, USA
Call For Participation

------------------------------------------------------------------------

A Workshop on Constraint Programming and Large Scale Discrete Optimization will be held as part of the DIMACS 1998-1999 Special Year on Large Scale Discrete Optimization.

The Special Year CFP indicates that:

"This special year is motivated by developments in the past ten years. There have been three simultaneous advances: at the algorithmic level, with new and interesting algorithms for solving large scale discrete problems both exactly and approximately; at the implementation level, providing codes and systems for solving such problems; and at the practical level, with interests in the fast solution of real world problems. Examples of such applications include airline crew scheduling, chemical process design, and telecommunication network design. Our goal in this year is to unite these groups. The confluence of exciting recent work on approximation and other algorithms and greatly improved software/hardware for optimization makes large scale discrete optimization a practical, useful approach to solving problems of practical interest."

For more information on the special year program see:

http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/SpecialYears/1998_1999/index.html


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest MTue, 16 Jun 98 Volume 5: Issue 24

Date: 10 Jun 1998 17:42:41 GMT
From: rjw@hopper.unh.edu (Richard J Wallace)
Subject: DIMACS Constraints Workshop

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Workshop on Constraint Programming and Large Scale Discrete Optimization
September 14-17, 1998
DIMACS, Rutgers, New Jersey, USA

Call For Participation

------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/SpecialYears/1998_1999/index.html" target="_top">http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/SpecialYears/1998_1999/index.html

Date: 16 Jun 1998 10:14:39 GMT
From: roland@molly.cs.monash.edu.au (Roland Yap)
Subject: CFP:PRICAI`98 Workshop on Constraint Approaches to Resource Allocation Problems
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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PRICAI`98 Workshop
on
Constraint Approaches to Resource Allocation Problems

http://www.iscs.nus.edu.sg/~ryap/CARA98/

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Singapore
22-24 November 1998 (date to be determined)

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In conjunction with the Fifth Pacific Rim International Conference on

Artificial Intelligence PRICAI`98

http://jsaic.iti.gov.sg/pricai98/)

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SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 8 Jun 98 Volume 5: Issue 23

Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 18:45:44 GMT
From: D.U.Thibault@Bigfoot.com
Subject: INFORMS Cincinnati 1999

Invitation and Call for Papers

INFORMS Spring 1999 Cincinnati

(http://www.econqa.cba.uc.edu/~informs.spr99.cinti/overview.htm)

Date: 5 Jun 1998 15:15:59 GMT
From: "Jean-Charles REGIN" <regin@ilog.fr>
Subject: ECAI98 Workshop on Non Binary Constraints

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Call for Participation

ECAI-98 Workshop W15

Non Binary Constraints

August 25th 1998

If you want to participate to this workshop send an email to regin@ilog.fr You will find all the information you need about this workshop (description, accepted papers, preliminary schedule ...) on the web page http://www.ilog.fr:8001/ECAI98/


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 1 Jun 98 Volume 5: Issue 22

Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 22:46:06 -0700
From: <harlanc@ibm.net>
Subject: Subject: Call for INFORMS Computing Society Sessions: INFORMS Cincinnati, May 1999

* * * CALL FOR SESSION CHAIRS * * *

INFORMS Computing Society (ICS)

INFORMS Meeting, Cincinnati

2-5 May 1999

It is official!! The INFORMS Computer Science Technical Section (CSTS) is now the

--- INFORMS Computing Society ---
We have a new name, but we are still dedicated to expanding knowledge about the relationship between OR/MS and computer science. And as in the past, ICS needs your help.

The INFORMS Computing Society is sponsoring a cluster of sessions at the INFORMS National Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. You are invited to organize and chair a session at the Cincinnati meeting.

Of particular interest are

Some of the most vigorous OR/MS-related research is taking place on the boundaries with computer science and artificial intelligence. ICS provides a valuable service to the OR/MS community by bringing this work to its attention. Feel free to pass this invitation along to CS and AI colleagues.

If you would like to chair a session, please provide me with your name, contact information (office phone number, e-mail address) and a session title by 1 July 1998. In return I will send you instructions for reporting the session titles, participants and abstracts. Sessions will run for 90 minutes and will typically consist of three or four presentations, but other arrangements such as panels, two-part sessions and tutorials are also welcome. Chairs and speakers need not be members of INFORMS or ICS.

If you have questions please give me a call.

Harlan P. Crowder

Silicon Valley, USA
+1 (650) 944 7125
harlanc@ibm.net

Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 09:06:10 -0400
From: Rich Staats <rstaats@mitre.org>
Subject: Call for Abstracts: Space Related

Greetings!

I'm a session chair for the Space Application track of invited papers for the May '99 INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science) conference in Cincinnati.

If you are engaged in space applications that would be of interesting to an operations research audience, this would be a great chance to get some publication credit and interact with other colleagues in your topic of interest. One caution, the conference is strictly UNCLASSIFIED; so, please no submissions that reference sources and methods or other classified topics.

A session is 90 minutes. Each presentation will be 20 minutes long total (including Q/A) Overhead projectors are standard in all of the meeting rooms. LCD panels with hi-intensity overheads are available at no charge if the request is made two months prior to the meeting. There will be a $25 charge for equipment ordered with a shorter lead time. Speakers must make arrangements for other equipment on their own by contacting the Meetings Manager six weeks prior to the meeting. Speakers do have to attend the conference and pay the appropriate fees and are responsible for their own costs for travel, lodging, etc.

I need an abstract by June 28, 1998 if you are interested in attending and presenting a paper. (The form is attached to this message.)

You can reach me via e-mail at: rstaats@mitre.org or by FAX at: (703)883-5491 or by phone at: (703)883-7261. I look forward to hearing >from you!

In service,

Rich

Richard C. Staats, Ph.D. E-mail: rstaats@mitre.org
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 19:19:37 +0100
From: "Ken ROY" <fg73@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: 40th OR Society Conference - Lancaster University
The 40th Operational Research Society Conference will be held at Lancaster University, England on the 8th to the 10th September 1998.

The invitation programme currently contains over 270 papers in over 20 streams including Simulation, Marketing, Finance, Artificial Intelligence, Reliability, Manufacturing, Energy, Project Management, Information Systems, Transport, Credit Scoring and Supply Chain Management.

Further information on the streams, the papers and the authors can be found at the OR Web Site

where further information on the conference and the location can also be found.


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 25 May 98 Volume 5: Issue 21

Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 18:07:09 GMT
From: Philippe.Fortemps@fpms.ac.be



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Date: 20 May 1998 14:31:58 GMT
From: ricos@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Erricos John Kontoghiorghes)
Subject: Computational Methods in Decision-Making & Finance
3eme cycle romand d'informatique seminar

Computational Methods in Decision-Making & Finance 22-23 June 1998, Neuchatel, Switzerland. http://www-iiuf.unifr.ch/3e-cycle/activite-98.html

Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 15:17:49 GMT
From: hlynka@uwindsor.ca (Myron Hlynka)
Subject: Canadian Operational Research Society Conference June 7-9, 1999.
URL: http://www.cors.ca/windsor/

Date: 25 May 1998 18:50:24 +0200
From: Dima Pasechnik <dima@duti515a.twi.tudelft.nl>
Subject: ADDENDUM to the announcement of the HPOPT98 workshop
Dear interested colleague,

Just after sending our Final announcement on Monday, our web-computer went down because of serious disk errors. Unfortunately, it may last until the end of next week before the system is repaired and our web page is up and running.

If you want to registrate or want to get more information you may wait until the end of next week to view http://ssor.twi.tudelft.nl/~hpopt/

but more preferrably you may sent us email at hpopt@twi.tudelft.nl.

We are very sorry for this inconvenience, but the workshop will be worth this small extra effort for you !

Greetings from the organizing committee

Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 15:17:49 GMT
From: hlynka@uwindsor.ca (Myron Hlynka)
Subject: Canadian Operational Research Society Conference June 7-9, 1999.
URL: http://www.cors.ca/windsor/

What is the (one of the) best location(s) for bird watching in Canada? Answer: Point Pelee National Park, 40 minutes south of Windsor (by car). You can visit bird expert Tom Hince's homepage and birdquiz on the Exploration Network (Discovery Channel) website at www.exn.net Tom Hince's e-mail address is pelee-tom@netcore.ca CORS=Canadian Operational Research Society. Regarding the CORS Conference, June 7-9, 1999, in Windsor, Ontario, we are currently seeking people willing to organize sessions of 4 speakers on any topic in OR. Visit the CORS Conference, Windsor, 1999, web page at www.cors.ca/windsor/ Contact person: Dr. Richard Caron, rcaron@uwindsor.ca message posted by Myron Hlynka (hlynka@uwindsor.ca) -- Myron Hlynka Dept. of Math. & Stat. University of Windsor Windsor, Ontario, Canada


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 19 May 98 Volume 5: Issue 20

Date: 15 May 1998 19:28:29 +0200
From: Dima Pasechnik <dima@duti515a.twi.tudelft.nl>
Subject: High Performance Optimization Techniques: workshop announcement

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Third workshop on
High Performance Optimization Techniques
(HPOPT98)

Wednesday, June 17 to Friday, June 19, 1998

To be held at

World Trade Center, Rotterdam - The Netherlands

WWW: http://ssor.twi.tudelft.nl/~hpopt/


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 12 May 98 Volume 5: Issue 19

Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 20:11:13 -0600 From: Erhan Erkut Subject: spreadsheet workshop Spreadsheets are changing the way OR/MS is being taught in a dramatic way. Professional societies in our discipline have taken notice of the spreadsheet revolution, and have organized a number of sessions in their conferences to advance the teaching of management science using spreadsheets. As part of a continuing effort to educate the educator, the Tuck School at Dartmouth College is offering a special workshop on this topic. There will be a total of 16 presenters, all of whom are at the forefront of management science education using spreadsheets. The workshop promises to be very fruitful with plenty of hands-on opportunities for the participants, and considerable interaction between the presenters and the participants. For more information on this workshop, please see http://www.dartmouth.edu/tuck/tmss/.

Erhan Erkut,
Chair, INFORMS Education Committee

Date: 4 May 1998 16:51:53 GMT
From: ipco98@sina.hpc.uh.edu (IPCO Houston '98)
Subject: IPCO Houston '98: Program & Registration

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WWW:   http://www.hpc.uh.edu/~ipco98/

Date: 7 May 1998 17:37:44 GMT
From: rjw@hopper.unh.edu (Richard J Wallace)
Subject: DIMACS Constraints Wksh Announ
Preliminary Announcement

Workshop on Constraint Programming and Large Scale Discrete Optimization
September 14-17, 1998
New Jersey, USA

WWW: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/SpecialYears/1998_1999/index.html

Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 16:47:39 GMT
From: hlynka@uwindsor.ca (Myron Hlynka)
Subject: Canadian Operational Research Conference 1999
Which of the following cities has the largest population in its metropolitan area?

(a) Toronto
(b) Montreal
(c) Windsor
The correct answer is (c) Windsor. The metropolitan area of Windsor includes metropolitan Detroit, which is larger than either Toronto or Montreal.

Consider participating in the 1999 Canadian Operational Research Society Conference June 7-9, in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

URL: http://www.cors.ca/windsor/

Contact person: Dr. Richard Caron (rcaron@uwindsor.ca)

Date: 10 May 1998 12:53:17 GMT
From: tiaya@mir46.ida.liu.se (Tianruo Yang)
Subject: call for paper

Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing with Applications

CALL FOR PAPERS

The above workshop is organized in the 10th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS-98) at Las Vegas, Nevada from October 28-31, 1998.

WWW: http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/pdcs98/

Date: 4 May 1998 16:03:55 GMT
From: Marco DORIGO <mdorigo@ulb.ac.be>
Subject: ANTS'98 - From Ant Colonies to Artificial Ants: First International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization

ANTS'98 - From Ant Colonies to Artificial Ants:

First International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization

to be held at Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, October 15-16, 1998, Brussels, Belgium

WWW: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants98/ants98.html


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 20 Apr 98 Volume 5: Issue 16

Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 18:47:16 +0200
From: Christoph Helmberg <helmberg@zib-berlin.de>
Subject: Reminder: ICM'98 early registration deadline is May 1!

Dear Colleague:

Please note that

May 1 : deadline for early registration and submission of abstracts

for ICM'98 is quickly approaching. We are looking forward to receiving your registration (by WWW, fax, or surface mail) for

THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MATHEMATICIANS

BERLIN, August 18-27, 1998


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 20 Apr 98 Volume 5: Issue 16

Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 10:19:46 +0200
From: Stefano Bistarelli <bista@di.unipi.it>
Subject: CP98 -- final call for papers

---------------------------------------------------------------------
                  FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS --  CP98
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Fourth International Conference on
Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming

Pisa, Italy, October 26--30, 1998

http://www.di.unipi.it/cp98/"


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 6 Apr 98 Volume 5: Issue 15

Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 17:54:41 GMT
From: sr@netcom.com (Software Research)
Subject: QW'98 Program Description http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/

The 11th International Quality Week (QW'98) Conference will be held May 26-29, 1998 in San Francisco, California. QW'98 is the largest conference focusing exclusively on software quality and testing issues. The QW'98 technical program emphasizes real-world software testing strategies and quality techniques, with 80 presentations to experience.

Date: 5 Apr 1998 18:21:44 GMT
From: ipco98@sina.hpc.uh.edu (IPCO Houston '98)
Subject: IPCO Houston '98: Program & Registration


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 //        Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization       //
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WWW: http://www.hpc.uh.edu/~ipco98/

Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 18:08:36 +1000
From: Michael Maher <mjm@cit.gu.edu.au>
Subject: Australian Workshop on Constraints - call for papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Australian Workshop on Constraints

to be held in conjunction with

The Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'98)

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Tuesday, 14 July, 1998


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 6 April 98 Volume 5: Issue 14

Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 17:54:41 GMT
From: sr@netcom.com (Software Research)
Subject: QW'98 Program Description http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/
The 11th International Quality Week (QW'98) Conference will be held May 26-29, 1998 in San Francisco, California. QW'98 is the largest conference focusing exclusively on software quality and testing issues. The QW'98 technical program emphasizes real-world software testing strategies and quality techniques, with 80 presentations to experience.

WWW: http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QW98/qw98.tour.html

Date: 5 Apr 1998 18:21:44 GMT
From: ipco98@sina.hpc.uh.edu (IPCO Houston '98)
Subject: IPCO Houston '98: Program & Registration

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WWW: http://www.hpc.uh.edu/~ipco98/

Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 18:08:36 +1000
From: Michael Maher <mjm@cit.gu.edu.au>
Subject: Australian Workshop on Constraints - call for papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Australian Workshop on Constraints

to be held in conjunction with

The Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'98)

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Tuesday, 14 July, 1998

WWW: http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/conferences/ai98/awc/


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 30 March 98 Volume 5: Issue 13

Date: 24 Mar 1998 03:50:44 -0500
From: rich@cs.umd.edu (Richard Gerber)
Subject: 2nd CFP - IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium 1998 (RTSS '98)

=======================================================================
                           CALL FOR PAPERS
              The 19th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium
                            Madrid, Spain
                          December 2-4, 1998

    Sponsored by The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
                          Real-Time Systems
=======================================================================
WWW: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~rich/rtss98/


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 23 Mar 98 Volume 5: Issue 12

Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:42:31 GMT
From: sr@netcom.com (Software Research)
Subject: QW'98, Tutorial Program
http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QW98/

Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 14:18:52 +0100
From: Philippe Geril <Philippe.Geril@rug.ac.be>
Subject: 1st CFP ESS'98 (10th European Simulation Symposium)

10th EUROPEAN SIMULATION SYMPOSIUM
26-28 October 1998
Nottingham, UK

Contact:

Philippe Geril,
SCS European Office, University of Ghent,
Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
Tel (Office): +32 9 2337790   Fax: +32 9 2334941
Tel/Fax (Private): +32 59 800 804
E-mail: philippe.geril@rug.ac.be

SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 23 Mar 98 Volume 5: Issue 12

Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 14:18:52 +0100
From: Philippe Geril <Philippe.Geril@rug.ac.be>
Subject: 1st CFP ESS'98 (10th European Simulation Symposium)

10th EUROPEAN SIMULATION SYMPOSIUM
26-28 October 1998
Nottingham, UK

Contact:

Philippe Geril,
SCS European Office, University of Ghent,
Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
Tel (Office): +32 9 2337790   Fax: +32 9 2334941
Tel/Fax (Private): +32 59 800 804
E-mail: philippe.geril@rug.ac.be

SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 9 Mar 98 Volume 5: Issue 10

Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 17:15:48 +0100
From: Philippe Geril <Philippe.Geril@rug.ac.be>
Subject: Selective CFP 12th European Simulation Multiconference
Hi there,

We have received some 160 abstracts/papers so far for the 12th European Simulation Multiconference, which will take place at the University of Manchester from June 16-June 19, 1998, as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations for the first programmable computer ever built.

However, the distribution of the papers is somehwat lop-sided and as we want to have a good distribution of papers we are still looking for presentations for the following subconferences:

Full ESM'98 conference information is available on http://hobbes.rug.ac.be/~scs/

If you are interested in submitting a paper or abstract you can do so before March 30th.

For more information contact the abovementioned website or email me on philippe.geril@rug.ac.be.

Best Regards

Philippe Geril
--
Philippe Geril
SCS Europe bvba                 E-Mail: Philippe.Geril@rug.ac.be
Coupure Links 653               URL: http://hobbes.rug.ac.be/~scs
B-9000 Ghent, Belgium           tel/fax priv.: +32.59.800.804
Tel: +32.9.233.77.90            URL priv: http://hobbes.rug.ac.be/~phil
Fax: +32.9.223.49.41


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 2 Mar 98 Volume 5: Issue 9

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 16:14:42 GMT
From: sr@netcom.com (Software Research)
Subject: QW'98, Technical Program target="_top"> http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QW98/>

Announcing: QUALITY WEEK '98 (26-29 May 1998, San Francisco)

The final technical program for QW'98 is now available at the QW'98

Conference WebSite : http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QW98. Date: 24 Feb 1998 17:33:57 -0500
From: mjs@hubcap.clemson.edu (M. J. Saltzman)
Subject: Corporate Speaker track at INFORMS Cincinnati (Spring 1999)
I am forwarding the following announcement at the author's request. *** Please contact Mr. Wadsworth directly. Do not reply to this post. *** Thank you.


> The Cincinnati Section is establishing a Corporate speaker
> track for the Spring '99 Meeting.  This track will focus
> solely on practitioners from industry, their applications, and
> the efforts to implement OR/MS in the workplace.
>
> Anyone interested in presenting in this track should
> contact Ted Wadsworth at "Theodore.Wadsworth@fmr.com"

 
		Matthew Saltzman
		Clemson University Math Sciences
		mjs@clemson.edu
------------------------------ Date: 24 Feb 1998 08:42:45 GMT
From: tiaya@mir46.ida.liu.se (Tianruo Yang)
Subject: call for paper
                               CALL FOR PAPERS

       International Symposium: "Computational and Optimization Algorithms, 
                                  Techniques and Applications"


         (inside at the SCI'98 Conference, which will be held in
                       Orlando, USA from July 12, 1998
                            http://www.iiis.org)
                             DEADLINE: 03/15/98
WWW: http://www.iiis.org/"

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:19:21 +0100
From: Dmitrii Pasechnik <dima@duti515a.twi.tudelft.nl>
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: 3rd workshop on High Perf. Opt. Techniques

#############################################################################
##  F I R S T  A N N O U N C E M E N T  and  C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S ##
#############################################################################
                              Third workshop on
                  High Performance Optimization Techniques
                                (HPOPT'98)

                Wednesday, June 17 to Friday, June 20, 1998

                                To be held at 
     
               World Trade Center, Rotterdam - The Netherlands

               ==>     including a one-day tutorial on     <==
               ==>         semidefinite optimization       <==
WWW: http://ssor.twi.tudelft.nl/~hpopt

Date: 19 Feb 1998 18:23:19 -0000
From: John.Salt@brunel.ac.uk (John D Salt)
Subject: [CALL FOR PAPERS] OR40 Simulation stream
CALL FOR PAPERS

OR40 Simulation Stream

We would like to receive abstracts for papers to be presented at the 40th annual conference of the Operational Research Society at LANCASTER UNIVERSITY, England, September 8th to 10th 1998.

Web site: http://www.orsoc.org.uk/home.html

Attendance is normally about 300 OR academics and practitioners. This year's conference theme is "relevance".

We are delighted to have Prof. Mike Pidd, Head of the Management Science department at Lancaster University, to start the simulation stream off with a keynote paper on simulation in Java.

We would welcome papers on discrete-event or continuous simulation in any field in which they are applied, from simulationists both in industry and academe.

Presenters will be asked to give a talk lasting 30 minutes, including a short introduction and a few minutes for questions. The editor of JORS, John Ranyard, has agreed that papers of acceptable quality may be published in JORS, and EJOR is always interested in publishing good review papers.

Presenters will be expected to pay the conference registration fee, which we expect will be in the region of 350 pounds sterling for the whole conference (less for single days).

Please send abstracts of your proposed papers to:


Dr. Simon J Taylor     (Simon.Taylor@Brunel.ac.uk)
Mr. John D Salt        (John.Salt@Brunel.ac.uk
Centre for Applied Simulation Modelling,
Department of Information Systems and Computing,
Brunel University,
Uxbridge, Middx.


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 23 Feb 98 Volume 5: Issue 8

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 11:45:21 +0600
From: "Maxim I. Sviridenko" <svir@math.nsc.ru>
Subject: second announcement SCOR98

                            Second announcement
                 Siberian Conference on Operations Research
                     Novosibirsk, Russia June 22-27, 1998
Russian scientific society of Operations Research, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics and Novosibirsk State University organize Siberian Conference on Operations Research (SCOR-98) as a part of International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (INPRIM-98).

http://math.nsc.ru/conference/scor98/scoren.html

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:11:36 +1100
From: PAKDD-98 Announcement <pakdd98-announce@deakin.edu.au>
Subject: PAKDD-98: Advance Program and CFP



                         ********************
                         *  P A K D D ' 98  *
                         ********************

  2nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

                Melbourne, Australia, April 15-17, 1998

              C A L L   F O R   P A R T I C I P A T I O N
Home Page: http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/pakdd-98

Date: 12 Feb 1998 10:10:21 GMT
From: "Jean-Charles REGIN" <regin@ilog.fr>
Subject: CFP: workshop on non binary constraints (ECAI'98)
Workshop on Non Binary Constraints
25 August 1998, ECAI-98, Brighton
Call for Papers

http://www.ilog.fr:8001/ECAI98/">


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 12 Jan 98 Volume 5: Issue 2

Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 18:58:13 GMT
From: sr@netcom.com (Software Research)
Subject: Quality Week '98, Call for Participation http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/

*********************************************************
ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE QUALITY WEEK 1998
(QW'98)
*********************************************************

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Conference Theme: Countdown to 2000

San Francisco, California -- 26-29 May 1998

Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 18:15:04 GMT
From: Matthew Jones <matthewj@banxia.co.uk>
Subject: Decision Explorer Workshops in the UK
** Apologies if you subscribe to multiple lists and so receive multiple copies of this posting **

PLEASE DO NOT HIT THE REPLY BUTTON! PLEASE REPLY TO THE EMAIL ADDRESS GIVEN BELOW.

Decision Explorer is a Windows based mapping tool, which is used to structure and analyse qualitative information. Working with information >from an individual or a group, Decision Explorer can be used to generate maps of ideas and to pull them together to form a coherent picture to help to improve understanding of a situation. Or it can be used to map >from text, revealing the structure of the arguments in order to discover the real issues behind the headline information.

We have organised two one-day workshops, the first of these will be held in Manchester on Monday 16th February 1998 and the second will be held in London on Monday 2nd March 1998. These workshops are intended to provide an introduction to cognitive mapping and to the software (Decision Explorer) which is used to support it.

Both workshops will cover the same course material. This will include the theory behind and practice in a particular technique for structuring qualitative information (cognitive mapping), hands-on sessions looking at sample models, building, exploring and analysing models, dealing with information from multiple sources and merging models. There will also be an opportunity to discuss your intended application of and wider applications of Decision Explorer and the link between Decision Explorer and QSR NUD*IST.

If you would like further information and a booking form then please email to training@banxia.co.uk. More information about Decision Explorer and the cognitive mapping technique can be found at http://www.banxia.co.uk/banxia. Places are limited on each of these workshops, so if you are interested in them please contact us soon! Thank you.

Regards,

Matthew Jones
Banxia Software Ltd
141 St. James Road, Glasgow, G4 0LT, Scotland
Phone: +44 141 552 3082
Fax: +44 141 552 5765
Web: http://www.banxia.co.uk/banxia


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 5 Jan 98 Volume 5: Issue 1

Date: Fri, 02 Jan 1998 09:51:27 -0600
From: bista@di.unipi.it
Subject: Preliminary Announcement - CP98: http://www.di.unipi.it/~bista/cp98/"

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

            Preliminary Announcement - CP98

           Fourth International Conference on
   Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming

           Pisa, Italy, October 26--30, 1998

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Web site: http://www.di.unipi.it/~bista/cp98/">


Date: 15 Dec 1997 21:36:55 GMT
From: "Ken ROY" <fg73@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: OR40 conference
This is an advance notice for next year's Operational Research Society conference.

OR40 will take place on the 8th-10th September 1998 at Lancaster University.

We are currently putting together the programme for this event and would welcome your views and thoughts on how to make this a valuable and successful event.

The committee are also inviting enthusiastic stream organisers or authors to contact :-

Professor Alan Mercer (Chair) Lancaster University.
Tel: 01524 593864; E-mail: g.olde@lancaster.ac.uk.

Professor Jim Bryant, Sheffield Hallam University
Tel: 0114 272 0911: E-mail: J.W.Bryant@shu.ac.uk.

Ken Roy, British Airways.
Tel: 0181 513 3251 E-mail: KENNETH.C.ROY@BRITISH-AIRWAYS.COM
You will also be able to keep in touch with the developing conference programme through the dedicated pages with the Live OR Web Site which can be found at :-http://www.orsoc.org.uk/or40/O40Wel.html

Without your help our role would be impossible. Please support OR 40 by contacting one of the organisers and discussing how you can contribute to OR 40 at Lancaster.

Many thanks


Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 05:17:35 GMT
From: "cardone" <gcardone@unina.it>
Subject: 8th International Symposium on flow Visualization
Dear Sir

On September 1-4, 1998 the 8th International Symposium on flow Visualization will be held in Sorrento (NA), Italy. You are invited to quickly visit the our web site http://www.detec.unina.it/8isfv/" also because the deadline for abstracts' submission is December 22, 1997. The abstract can be submitted also by E-mail.

Best Regards
Giovanni Maria Carlomagno

University of Naples - DETEC
P.le Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples Italy
Email: carmagno@unina.it
Tel 00 39 81 7682178
Fax 00 39 81 2390364