April 1996 € Volume 23 € Number 2

Calendar

1996

May 23: The 5th Annual E. Leonard Arnoff Memorial Lecture on the Practice of the Management Sciences will be held at the College of Business Administration at the University of Cincinnati in Room 112, Carl H. Lindner Hall at 7:30 p.m.

July 13-15: Fourth International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process, Simon Fraser University's Burnaby Mountain Campus, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The sessions will commence immediately after IFORS' 96 (July 8-12). Papers presented at the symposium will be from academics and practitioners in the AHP field. Contact: William C. Wedley, ISAHP IV Chairperson, Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B. C., CANADA, V5A 1S6; Phone: (604) 291-4528; Fax: (604) 291-4920; E-mail: wedley@sfu.ca

July 16-19: International Conference On Management Science and the Economic Development of China, jointly organized by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and Tsinghua University, will be held at the campus of HKUST in Hong Kong. For information, contact: MS Conference, Department of ISMT, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong; Phone: (852) 2358-7733; Fax: (852) 2358-1946; E-mail: msconf@usthk.ust.hk

Sept. 19-21: International Conference in Riga, Latvia, sponsored by IFORS (International Federation of Operational Research Societies), EURO (Association of European Operational Research Societies within IFORS), The Swedish Institute, and The Latvian Council of Sciences. Further information can be obtained via the World Wide Web at http://www.itl.rtu.lv/Riga_Conf96; or contact Mikael Ankelius, Economic Information Systems, IDA, Linkoping University S-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden.

Oct. 9-11: Practical Successful Systems -- The 50th Annual North East Quality Control Conference at the Hartford, Conn., Marriott Hotel/Farmington, hosted by the Connecticut section of the American Society for Quality Control. The educational and technical programs will cover the topics of driving process improvements for results, practical applications of information technology, hands-on development of ISO 9000 systems, and measuring and assessing performance. Contact Joe Trowbridge, NEQCC Registration Committee, P.O. Box 380385, East Hartford, CT 06138-0385; Phone: (860) 677-8105; Fax: (860) 676-0433.

Oct. 9-13: 1996 Association for Consumer Research Conference at the Loewes Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, Ariz. The theme for the conference is "Breaking Out of the Box" and deals with developing innovative ways of thinking (new paradigms, linkages, phenomena, methods); examining a given phenomenon from a diversity of methodological and/or theoretical perspectives; and creating synergy by solidifying our appreciation of a core research discipline of consumer behavior. Contact: Debbie MacInnis, Department of Marketing, University of Southern California; Phone: (213) 938-1449 (home) or (213) 740-5039 (office); Fax: (213) 938-0230 (home); (213) 740-7828 (office); E-mail: macinnis@mizar.usc.edu

Dec. 8-11: The 1996 Winter Simulation Conference, to be held at the Hotel Del Coronado, Coronado, Calif. Contact: Daniel T. Brunner, WSC '96 General Chair, Systemflow Simulations, Inc., 6366 Guilford Avenue, Suite 310, Indianapolis, IN 46220; Phone: (317) 466-0664; Fax: (317) 466-0821; E-Mail: brunner@systemflow.com; or James J. Swain, WSC '96 Program Chair, Dept. Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899; Phone: (205) 895-6749; Fax: (205) 895-6733; E-Mail: jswain@ebs330.eb.uah.edu

1997

March 19-21: 1997 ABSEL (Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning) Conference at the Doubletree Hotel in New Orleans. The conference will include traditional academic papers and demonstrations dealing with design, evaluation and application of simulations, games and experiential exercises in teaching, research and assessment; and panel discussions, workshops, and symposia on meeting the needs of students, colleagues and industry. Contact Alan L. Patz, University of Southern California, School of Business Administration, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1421; Phone: (213) 740-0761 or 740-0728; Fax: (213) 749-0541; E-mail: apatz@sba.usc.edu

June 18-21: International Conference -- Transition to Advanced Market Institutions and Economies: Systems and Operations Research Challenges, Warsaw, Poland, co-sponsored by IFAC, IFORS, IIASA and INFORMS. Contact Professor Roman Kulikowski, Systems Research Institute, ul. Newelska 6, 01-447 Warszawa, Poland; Phone: +48 (22) 36 44 14; Fax: +48 (22) 37 27 72; E-mail: ibs@ibspan.waw.pl

June 23-27: The 15th International Teletraffic Congress -- Teletraffic Engineering in the 21st Century. The congress will be a forum for teletraffic experts to meet, interact and benefit from discussions and exchanges of ideas, results and best practices. To be placed on the ITC-15 mailing list, send your name, organization, address, country, phone, fax and E-mail information to: 15th International Teletraffic Congress; ITC-15 Secretariat. P.O. Box 250, Holmdel, NJ 07733.

Aug. 25-30: 15th IMACS World Congress in Berlin, Germany. Contact: IMACS Secretariat, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903.

Nov. 30-Dec. 4: The Fourth Conference of the Association of Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies within IFORS at the World Congress Centre, Melbourne, Australia. Contact: Pam Richards at APORS '97 -- PR Conference Consultants Pty. Ltd., POB 326, Balwyn, Vic., Australia 3103; Phone: +61 3 9816 9111; Fax: +61 3 9816 9287; E-mail: apors97@sci.monash.edu.au

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