Dear colleagues:
We are pleased to invite you to the 3rd International Symposium & 25th National Conference on Operational Research , which will take place at the University of Thessaly in Volos, Greece, in June 26-28, 2014, under the auspices of the Hellenic Operational Research Society (HELORS) and the University of Thessaly (UTH).
The purpose of the conference is to facilitate the exchange of scientific and technical information related to Operational Research and to promote international co-operation among researchers from different countries.
The overall goal is to promote Operational Research as a scientific tool of strategic importance for the efficient and effective modeling and solution of real life decision problems.
The thematic focus of this year’s Conference is Transportation, Energy and the Environment.
The conference topics include, but are not limited to:
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- Applications of Transportation, Energy and the Environment
- Climate Change
- Combinatorial Optimization & Integer Programming
- Data Mining and Analytics in Environmental Engineering
- Decision Making under Uncertainty
- Decision Support Systems for the Urban Environment
- Decision Support Systems in Environmental & Transportation Engineering
- Drayage Operation & Optimization
- E-Commerce in Transportation Management
- E-Government Strategies and Security
- Electrical Engineering and Optimization
- Electricity Markets
- Energy Efficiency
- Energy Policy & Planning
- Energy Risk Management
- Financial Impact/Issues
- Game Theory and Bi-level Optimization
- Green Logistics
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Freight Transport Operations
- Group Decision Making & GDSS
- Heuristics, Metaheuristics & Nature Inspired Optimization Algorithms
- Intelligent Mobility Management
- Intermodal Freight Transportation
- Linear & Nonlinear Programming
- Mathematical Decomposition methods
- Mathematical Programming
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- Mathematical Modeling & Decision Making
- Military Operational Research
- Model Building and Optimization
- Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis & Multi-Objective Optimization
- Network Design and Optimization
- Network Optimization
- O.R. in Agriculture and Forest Management
- Optimal Control
- Optimization in Logistic Services
- Optimization Software
- Port Planning & Scheduling
- Power Systems
- Pricing Policy
- Production Planning & Scheduling
- Queuing Theory
- Railway Operations & Mathematical Programming
- Reverse Logistics
- Risk Analysis & Management
- Seamless Multimodal Travelling
- Stochastic Programming
- Supply Chain Management
- Third-Party logistics
- Transportation Decision Making in Transportation
- Use of Operational Research for conducting Energy Policy & Governance
- Vehicle Routing
- Waste Management Optimization · Logistics in Agriculture
- Marketing & Operations Management
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Abstract Submission:
Abstracts (max 600 words) should be submitted electronically until May 16, 2014 to conferenceEEEE@gmail.com.
Important Deadlines:
Deadline Abstract Submission: May 16, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: May 26, 2014
Deadline early registration: June 12, 2014
Registration:
Early Bird Registration (before June 12, 2014): 300* €
Early Bird Registration (before June 12, 2014) for Students: 150* €
Regular Registration: 350* €
Regular Registration for Students: 200* €
Accompanying person: 50 €
* A 50% discount rate will be offered to the members of the HELORS
Invited Speakers:
Prof. Michael C. Caramanis, Boston University, USA
Prof. Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Prof. Vangelis Th. Paschos, University Paris-Dauphine, France
Publications:
1. Accepted abstracts will be included in the Book of Abstracts that will be distributed to the participants at the beginning of the Conference.
2. The papers to be presented in the conference will be included, after review, in the Book of Proceedings, in electronic form with an official ISBN.
3. Selected papers will be published, after review, in Special Issues of the international scientific journals:
- Energy Systems
- Operational Research: An International Journal
- International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems
Additional information can be found at the conference’s website ( http://eeee2014.epu.ntua.gr).
For further information, please contact:
Dr. George Saharidis
Lecturer, Operational Research and Industrial Management
University of Thessaly
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Pedion Areos
38334 Volos
Greece
t: +30 2421074185
f: +30 2421074059
e: saharidis@gmail.com
We look forward to welcoming you to the conference.
The members of the Organizing Committee:
Georgios K.D. Saharidis (University of Thessaly)
George Liberopoulos (University of Thessaly)
George Kozanidis (University of Thessaly)