February 1999 Calendar 1999 April 8-9: Decision Management Workshop at Stanford University. This hands-on workshop covering the basics of forecasting, simulation, decision analysis and optimization will be led by Sam Savage, with a keynote address by William Perry, former Secretary of Defense. For more information, call (650) 725-0559 or see http://www.stanford.edu/~savage/orwfm.htm. All attendees will receive a copy of Dr. Savage's INSIGHT.xla. For a free download sample see http://www.AnalyCorp.com. June 7-9: 41st National Conference of the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) in Windsor, Ontario. The theme is "Operational Research in Motion." More information about the conference can be found at http://www.cors. ca/windsor/ or by sending e-mail to Dr. Richard Caron, general chair; rcaron@uwindsor.ca; or Dr. David Stanford, program chair; stanford@fisher.stats.uwo.ca. See http://www.cors.ca/windsor/ for more information. June 14-18: Fourth Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems (MAPSP4) in Renesse, The Netherlands. The workshop aims to provide a forum for scientific exchange and cooperation in the field of planning, scheduling and related areas. To maintain the informality of the previous workshops and to encourage discussion, there will be a limit of 100 participants and a single stream of presentations. Persons interested in participating or preregistering should send e-mail to mapsp99@win.tue.nl. More information about the workshop may be found at http://www.win.tue.nl/~mapsp99, or by sending your postal address and a request for a printed workshop brochure to mapsp99@win.tue.nl. June 23-25: The 9th International Conference on Flexible Automation & Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM '99), at the Center for Economic Research, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands. The main focus of this conference is on the developments in flexible automation and intelligent manufacturing systems. More information about the conference can be found at http://cwis.kub.nl/~few5/center/staff/ashayeri/faim99.htm or send an e-mail to Petra Van der Ham (conference secretariat) at P.H.M.vdrHam@kub.nl. June 23-29: ISOLDE VIII, 8th International Symposium on Locational Decisions in Coimbra and Estoril, Portugal. Sponsored by the University of Coimbra, this triennial symposium explores the state-of-the-art and developing trends in location analysis, drawing researchers from numerous disciplines including economics, engineering, geography, logistics, mathematics, operations research, management science and regional science. For more information, contact António Pais-Antunes, Civil Engineering Department, University of Coimbra, 3049 Coimbra, Portugal; Phone: 351.39857064; E-mail: antunes@dec.uc.pt. Information about the symposium can be found at http://www.dec.uc.pt/isolde8 June 26-29: Richard Ivey School of Business Second Annual Summer Workshop in London, Ontario, Canada. This year's theme is "Teaching Management Science with Cases, Projects, Games and Other Interactive MEthods." Sponsored by INFORMS, CORS and IFORS. More information can be found at: http://www.informs.org/informed/2ndconf.htm. Program co-chairs are Peter Bell (pbell@ivey.uwo.ca) and Tom Grossman (grossman@mgmt.ucalgary.ca). July 4-7: 5th International Decision Sciences Institute Conference, Athens, Greece, at Intercontinental Hotel. The main theme of the conference is "Integrating Technology and Human Decisions: Global Bridges into the 21st Century." For more information, contact either co-chairman: S. Zanakis, Florida International University; E-mail: dsi_athens@fiu.edu; or G.Doukidis, Athens University of Economics and Business; E-mail: douk@aueb.gr. Details about the conference can be found at http://www.dsi99. athens.aueb.gr July 4-7: The 15th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research in Gold Coast, Australia, incorporating the ASOR Queensland Branch and ORSJ Hokkaido Chapter Joint Workshop. The theme is "Put Theory into Real Life." Members and non-members are invited to this conference focusing on the broad range of context in which operations research and operations research professionals operate. Come to the conference to participate in specialized workshops and sessions relating to your specific areas of interest and have informal discussions with researchers and implementers. See http://www.math.fsc.qut.edu.au/asor for more information. Sept. 1-3: International Symposium on Operations Research 1999 (SOR '99) organized by the German Operations Research Society (GOR) in Magdeburg, Germany. All areas of operations research will be covered. Deadline for submission of papers (by e-mail) is March 15, 1999. For more information, contact: G. Schwodiauer (general chair), University of Magdeburg, Faculty of Economics and Management, P. O. Box 41 20, D-39016 Magdeburg, Germany; Phone: +49-391-6718739; fax: +49-391-6711136; schwoediauer@wiwi.uni-magdeburg.de. Additional information about the conference can be found at: http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/SOR99/. Sept. 30-Oct. 2: The 5th International Symposium on Operational Research (SOR '99) in Preddvor, Slovenia. The aim of SOR '99 is to provide a forum for presentation of original research in OR methodology, education and implementation, as well as in computing aspects of OR. The scientific program will include invited talks as well as contributed papers. For more information contact Lidija Zadnik (general chair), University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia; Phone: 00386 61 123 1161/503; Fax: 00386 61 271 169; E-mail: lidija.zadnik@uni-lj.si; http://home.amis.net/matjeran/sor/. Table of Contents OR/MS Today Home Page OR/MS Today copyright © 1999 by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. All rights reserved. Lionheart Publishing, Inc. 506 Roswell Street, Suite 220, Marietta, GA 30060, USA Phone: 770-431-0867 | Fax: 770-432-6969 E-mail: lpi@lionhrtpub.com URL: http://www.lionhrtpub.com Web Site © Copyright 1999 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.