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“Operations Research: Addressing Issues of Development”

– in conjunction with EURO XXVI- EURO-INFORMS, June 30- July 4, 2013

Sponsored by:

Date: June 27-28, 2013

Venue:
Department of Statistics
The “Città Universitaria” of Sapienza University of Rome
Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
en.uniroma1.it 

Background

The International Conference on OR for Development (ICORD) had been sponsored by IFORS (ifors.org/web/icord-history) every 3 years. A recent initiative called for yearly meetings, resulting in two workshops preceding the ICORD itself, which is scheduled for 2014 alongside the IFORS Triennial Conference. This workshop is one of the two preceding the 2014 ICORD. The 2012 workshop was held in Tunisia – with the cooperation of the EWG-ORD (ifors.org/web/icord-workshop/). This 2013 workshop isa joint activity with the EWG-ORD satellite event.

The EURO Working Group on Operational Research for Development(EWG-ORD); web.ing.puc.cl/~fcrespo/eurofdv/), is a working group of EURO (www.euro-online.org/)which aims to promote and facilitate communication links among European and other researchers working in areas of operational research for development. EWG-ORD actively organized / co-organized workshops or streams on operational research for development for EURO 2006, EURO 2007, EURO 2008, IFORS 2008, EURO 2009,EURO 2010, IFORS 2011 and EURO 2012.These workshops have been successful in promoting the role of operational research and related techniques towards improving living conditions in developing and developed countries.

Call for Participants
Operations Researchers who have done work in the area of OR for Development are invited to participate in this joint workshop. To qualify, participants are required to submit a full paper (of at least 1500 words) on their work which has used Operations Research to help the decision-making process in the areas of education, health, waterand other basic services, technology, resource use (physical or financial), infrastructure, agricultural/industrialization or environmental sustainability,that help optimize development in view of constraints and limited resources.A stress on developmental issues will be an important factor;papers of a purely technical nature, or those that have no relevance in the developmental context, will not be considered. All work presented are eligible for submission to the IFORS Prize Competition

Workshop Format
The Workshop will feature presentations by the participants of their papers. At least one reactor will be assigned for each paper. All participants will be given all the papers of accepted participants in advance, which will give them time to study the other papers. Ample time will be given for a discussion of each of the papers presented. There will also be a plenary session for an invited speaker.

Support for Participants
A limited number of slots for accommodation and registration support will be available, and will depend on the quality of material submitted.

Local Organizing Committee
Paolo Dell’Olmo (paolo.dellolmo@uniroma1.it)
Vanda Deangelis (vanda.deangelis@gmail.com)

Program Committee
Elise del Rosario (elise@jgdelrosario.com)
Honora Smith (honora.smith@soton.ac.uk)
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber (gweber@metu.edu.tr)
Giorgio Gallo (gallo@di.unipi.it)

EWG ORD Member-Coordinators
Pedamallu Chandra Sekhar (pcs.murali@gmail.com)
Youssef Masmoudi (youssef.masmoudi@gmail.com)
Fernando Crespo (facrespo@gmail.com)

Workshop Registration Fee USD 200
Facility to accept payments will be set up soon.
For accommodation, please go to euro2013.org/?page_id=76 and reserve from the list of accommodation options given.

Submissions
Please email your proposed paper to:
icord_ewgsubmissions@ifors.org

Important Dates

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