OR/MS Today - February 1997

February 1997 € Volume 24 € Number 1

Call for Papers

20th Meeting of Euro Working Group

The 20th Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Financial Modeling will take place April 24-26 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Organized by the Faculty of Economics at the University of Zagreb and the Croatian Operational Research Society, the meeting will include tutorials on portfolio optimization, financial innovation and data envelopment analysis.

In addition to the announced tutorial lectures and sessions, contributions in other areas such as: evaluation of investment projects, corporate finance, portfolio selection and management, risk analysis, financial forecasting, and measuring efficiency of banks and insurance companies, are welcome.

Upon subimssion, participants should specify if they wish to present a paper in a REFEREED or UNREFEREED session.

Deadline for the submission of papers for the referred session is March 15. Submit papers to: Professor Luka Neralic, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics, phone: +385-1-233-1111, fax: +385-1-233-5633, e-mail neralic@oliver.efzg.hrCroatia

MIC '97

The purpose of the Metaheuristics International Conference '97 (MIC '97) is to bring together researchers in Operations Research, Management Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and related fields to advance the understanding of basic principles and new developments in Metaheuristics, including Genetic Algorithms, Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures, Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search, and other hybrid approaches to solving hard combinatorial problems.

Only papers describing original and significant unpublished research are solicited. Submissions should also include the fax number, e-mail and postal address of the senders.

Electronic submission is strongly preferred. Full papers should be written in Latex and can be submitted electronically for a peer review.

Deadlines for submissions are as follows: extended abstract, Feb. 28; electronic submission, July 4. Send submissions to Ibrahim H. Osman, Institute of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, U.K. phone: +44 - 1227 827893, fax: +44 - 1227 827932 or Catherine Roucairol, PRiSM, Universite de Versailles, 45 avenue des Etats-Unis, 78035 Versailles cedex, France, phone: +33 (0)1 39 25 40 88, fax: +33 (0)1 39 25 40 57.

International Society for Bayesian Analysis

The Fifth World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) will be held in Istanbul Turkey during Aug. 16-18, as a satellite meeting to the 51st Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in Istanbul. The scientific program will consist of invited, contributed and poster paper sessions. The Program Committee is inviting contributed papers which will be assigned to regular and poster sessions.

Authors of contributed papers should send (or e-mail) a title and a short abstract to one of the following co-chairs no later than Feb.15: Hamparsum Bozdogan, Department of Statistics, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. 37996-0532, USA, phone : (423) 974-1635, fax : (423) 974-2490, e-mail: bozdogan@utk.edu or Refik Soyer, Department of Management Science, Monroe Hall 403, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA, phone: (202) 994-6445, fax: (202) 994-4930, e-mail: soyer@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu

FORTE/PSTV'97

FORTE/PSTV'97 will address Formal Description Techniques (FDTs) applicable to Distributed Systems and Communication Protocols (such as Estelle, LOTOS, SDL, ASN.1, TTCN, Z, Automata, Process Algebra, Logic) at a conference in Osaka, Japan, Nov. 18-21.

Research papers and industrial usage reports as well as proposals for tutorials (advanced technology seminars), poster displays and tool demonstrations are sought, particularly in the following areas: FDT-based system and protocol; extensions of FDTs engineering; semantical foundations; practical experience and case; real-time and probability aspects studies; protocol testing and quality of service modeling and networks; and network management.

Deadline for submissions is April 11. Deadline for camera-ready copy for final proceedings is April 30.

For more information, contact Teruo Higashino, program co-chair, Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Osaka University,Toyonaka, Osaka 560, Japan, phone: +81-6-850-6607, fax : +81-6-850-6609, e-mail : fortepstv97@ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp. More information may be obtained via the FORTE WWW page at: http://www.sunfish.ics.es.osaka u.ac.jp/forte.pstv97/

Special Issue of Interfaces

Strategy Modeling and Analysis Strategy formulation and strategy decisions are the focus of major efforts of senior executives.Interfaces plans to publish a special issue devoted to the modeling and analysis that enables and supports these critical choices.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

sources of sustainable competitive advantage, value chain analysis, competitor and industry analysis; and
critical capabilities, value creation, innovation, strategic intent and portfolio of businesses.

Ideal papers should describe modeling and analysis, broadly defined to include approaches such as decision analysis, financial valuation, game theory, influence diagramming, information theory, option valuation, risk modeling, scenario analysis and new frameworks for analysis.

Submit papers by June 30, in the Interfaces format. All papers will be peer-reviewed, and the applications will be verified.

Submit five copies of each paper and address inquiries to one of the special issue editors: Samuel E. Bodily, visiting professor, Department of engineering&endash; economic systems/operations Research Stanford University; Stanford, Calif. 54305-4025; Phone: (415) 725-1875; e-mail: BodilyS@virginia.edu; Professor Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg; Garden Graduate Business School; University of Virginia; Box 6550; Charlottesville, Va. 22906; Phone: (804)243-7689; e-mail: TeisbergE@virginia.edu

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