Conferences and Meetings on Operational research

Algorithms and complexity: algorithms and computational complexity; approximation algorithms; randomized algorithms; computational geometry; parameterized complexity. Operations Research and Mathematical Programming: combinatorial optimization; integer programming; polyhedral combinatorics; operations research and management science. Graph Theory: cliques, dominating and independent sets; colorings; covering and packing, factorization, matching; digraphs, tournaments; graph algorithms; graphs and matrices; hypergraphs; perfect graphs; random graphs; structural characterization of graph classes. Applications to real-world problems: mathematical programming, combinatorial optimization, continuous optimization, heuristics, and metaheuristics.

Algorithms and Data Structues,    Graph Theory and Combinatorics

H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

The IPCO conference is under the auspices of the Mathematical Optimization Society and is held every year. The conference is a forum for researchers and practitioners working on various aspects of integer programming and combinatorial optimization. The aim is to present recent developments in theory, computation, and applications in these areas.

The conference will be preceded by a Summer school (May 17-18)

Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers,    Graph Theory and Combinatorics

EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems

The EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems invites you to participate in the ICDSST 2021 International Conference on Decision Support System Technology on Decision Support Systems, Analytics and Technologies in response to Global Crisis Management in Loughborough, UK. The Conference will be hosted at the School of Business and Economics of the Loughborough University, during the period of May 26th to May 28th, 2021.

Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning,    Multidisciplinary or General Events in Informatics

Canadian Operational Research Society

Every year, the CORS annual conference brings together Operations Research and Management Science academics and practitioners from Canada and abroad. It features plenaries, tutorials, hundreds of presentations, and several competitions.

ICAPS 2021, the 31st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, will take place in Guangzhou, at Sun Yat-Sen University in June 7-12 2021. ICAPS 2021 is part of the ICAPS conference series, the premier forum for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of intelligent and automated planning and scheduling technology.

Theoretical and empirical studies of planning and scheduling problems and algorithms; Novel techniques and approaches that extend the scope and scale of problems that can be solved; Analytic and implemented tools supporting automated planning and scheduling; and Studies of applying automated planning and scheduling technologies to significant problems with deep technical insight.

In modern day society that generates huge amounts of data, its analysis, interpretation, and optimal decision-making are essential not only in the world of education, scientific research, public statistics and business, but in all areas of life, with the benefits that this entails for society in general. Currently, the Covid19 pandemic has revealed the vital role of the mathematical models of Statistics and Operations Research to help predict its evolution and optimize available resources. More than ever, this event offers a unique opportunity as a forum in which academicians, researchers and experts dealing with Statistics and OR join to exchange ideas and expertise.

hosted by the Royal Academy of Exact, Physics and Natural Sciences

The ECCO annual meetings aim to bring together researchers in the field of Combinatorial Optimization to present their work, share experiences, and discuss recent advances in theory and applications.

The idea of organization of this Conference was also stimulated by the necessity of establishment of the bolt collaboration relations between Azerbaijani scientists working on optimization and control and also close theories with the foreign colleagues who work with the new and in some cases nontraditional branches of this topic. At the same time they can present their findings in the traditional theory of control and optimization. The organizers of the conference hope it will give a new impulse to development of these topics not only in Azerbaijan and region and also in the world.

Institute of Mathematics of the University of Seville

This EURO PhD School (EPS) will focus on giving participants advanced training on Data Driven Decision Making. There will be a methodological as well as an applied component to this EPS. Methodological training on the role of Mathematical Optimization in Data Science will be given in the format of lectures and computer workshops. The lectures will highlight the mathematical and statistical modeling and numerical optimization behind data analysis and data visualization tools. The computer workshops will make this knowledge actionable. Applications of the acquired knowledge to the modeling of specific industrial problems will be presented by professionals from industry and worked out by the PhD students. Mathematical and statistical models and numerical solution approaches will be developed and communicated, following a collaborative approach, in which the PhD students will work in small groups under the guidance of the instructors.

The aim of the conference is to bring together interested researchers from Constraint Programming (CP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Operations Research (OR) to present new techniques or applications and to provide an opportunity for researchers in one area to learn about techniques in the others. A main objective of this conference series is also to give these researchers the opportunity to show how the integration of techniques from different fields can lead to interesting results on large and complex problems. Therefore, papers that actively combine, integrate, or contrast approaches from more than one of the areas are especially solicited. High quality papers from a single area are also welcome, if they are of interest to other communities involved. Application papers showcasing CP/AI/OR techniques on novel and challenging applications or experience reports on such applications are strongly encouraged.

The aim of the workshop is to present recent research results on dynamic scheduling problems, in which job processing times, machine speeds or other parameters of the problems are variable and dynamically change in time.

The aim of the workshop is to present recent research results on dynamic scheduling problems, in which job processing times, machine speeds or other parameters of the problems are variable and dynamically change in time.

International conference “Mathematical Optimization Theory and Operations Research” (MOTOR 2021) will be held on July 5-10, 2021, in the picturesque place not far from Irkutsk (Russia) and Lake Baikal. The conference brings together a wide research community in the fields of mathematical programming and global optimization, discrete optimization, complexity theory and combinatorial algorithms, optimal control and games, and their applications in relevant practical problems of operations research, mathematical economy, and data analysis.

The workshop is the annual event of the EUROPT continuous optimization working group of EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies).

EURO Working Group on Stochastic Optimization (EWGSO) | Department of Economics - Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

This joint event will provide a forum for fruitful discussions and interactions among researchers and professionals from industry and institutional sectors on decision making under uncertainty in a complex world. The conference will be within the scopes of both CMS and EWGSO and, in particular, it will focus on models, methods and computational tools in stochastic, robust and distributionally robust optimization and on computational aspects of management science with emphasis on risk management, valuation problems, measurement applications. Traditional fields of application, such as finance, energy, water management, logistics, supply chain management, and emerging ones, such as healthcare, climate risk and sustainable development, will be included.

Modeling and Simulation,    Systems theory, Control and Automation

The conference will be organized by the International Society of Global Optimization and the Center for Applied Optimization.

EURO – the European Association of Operational Research Society

EURO 2021 is the largest European conference for Operational Research and Management Science with more than 40 years of history since the first edition in 1975 in Brussels.

This workshop will be held in a digital format via Zoom (live). Registration is free.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from various fields that intersect with nonlocal spacial modeling and thereby generate fruitful synergistic effects among the participants. The workshop will be focused on models which are nonlocal in space; including fractional equations as well as nonlocal models with a finite range of interactions.

Optimization (optimal distributed control, interface and parameter identification, etc.) Analysis and Stochastics (numerical analysis, jump processes, etc.) Implementation (finite element and mesh-free methods, Monte-Carlo type methods, low-rank approaches, spectral methods, etc.) Applications (finance, peridynamics, economic models, etc.)

Department of Mathematics, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University

This seminar relates to all areas in pure and applied mathematics which have relation to Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization.

Email: rezapourshahram@yahoo.ca

Nonlinear Functional Analysis, Fixed Point Theory and Approximations, Proximal-Point Algorithms, Nonlinear Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, Fractional and Partial Differential Equations, Convex and Non-convex Analysis, Set-Valued Analysis, Equilibrium Problems, Harmonic Analysis, Evolution Equations, Geometry of Banach Spaces, Numerical Analysis, Wavelet and Frames, Optimization Theory, Nonlinear Optimization, Global Optimization, Combinatorial Optimization, Dynamic Programming, Optimal Control Theory, Other Related Topics of Optimization Theory and Numerical Algorithms.

Analysis,    Applied Mathematics (in general)

Students will learn how to develop and use predictive models (discrete choice models) in the software R and how to introduce such models in mathematical models for decision-making (i.e., mixed integer programs) to consider demand as an auxiliary variable. The models will be implemented in a modeling environment (GAMS). Case studies will be used for practicing purposes.

ISMOR is an annual international symposium sponsored by the UK Ministry of Defence which offers a unique opportunity to spend quality time exploring the application of analysis to practical issues in defence and security with a wide range of colleagues from across the world.

Bilkent University

PhD summer schools on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding/Making (MCDA/MCDM) have been jointly organized by the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision (MCDM) making and EURO Working Group on Multicriteria Decision Aiding (EWG-MCDA) regularly since 1983. The summer school brings together around 50 PhD students from all over the world and leading scholars of MCDA/MCDM at a venue where all participants live, work, and socialize together for a two-week period. This event has been very successful in educating future generations of MCDA/MCDM scholars and facilitating networking among participants.

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

The SIAM Conference on Optimization will feature the latest research on the theory, algorithms, software, and applications of optimization. A particular emphasis will be put on applications of optimization in AI and data science, quantum computing, health care, finance, aeronautics, control, operations research, and other areas of science and engineering. The conference brings together mathematicians, operations researchers, computer and computational scientists, engineers, software developers and practitioners, thus providing an ideal environment to share new ideas and important problems among specialists and users of optimization in academia, government, and industry.

This is the meeting of the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization.

ISMP is the symposium of the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS). ISMP 2021 is organized by the Operations Research Society of China (ORSC).

The conference is organized by the Latin-American Association of Operations Research Societies (ALIO), the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research (SEIO), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC).

The Latin-Iberoamerican Conference on Operations Research takes place biannually since 1982 in different Latin American cities and is sponsored by the Association of Latin-Iberoamerican Operational Research Societies (ALIO). The first CLAIO took place in 1982, Rio de Janeiro. Their main goals are to further the exchange of experiences; to contribute, establish, and deepen ties between researchers and practitioners in the region and to help young undergraduate and graduate students in their professional development. The last editions took place in Lima (Perú), September 24th to 27th, 2018.

BI Norwegian Business School

Welcome to the joint annual conference of the Operations Research Societies of Switzerland (SVOR), Germany (GOR e.V.) and Austria (ÖGOR). The conference connects academics and practitioners from operations research, management science, data science and analytics. Designed around this year’s special theme - «Business Analytics for Data-Driven Decision Making» - the OR 2021 is an excellent platform to share the most recent research, to discuss trends in the industry and interact with leading experts.

Many real world problems arising in engineering, economics, medicine and other domains can be formulated as optimization tasks. These problems are frequently characterized by non-convex, non-differentiable, discontinuous, noisy or dynamic objective functions and constraints which ask for adequate computational methods. The aim of this workshop is to stimulate the communication between researchers working on different fields of optimization and practitioners who need reliable and efficient computational optimization methods.

APMS 2021 brings together leading international experts on production systems and logistics from academia, industry, and government to discuss pressing issues in smart manufacturing, operations management, supply chain management, and Industry 4.0 in the Artificial Intelligence era.

LRN 2021 will debate and critique the whole range of contemporary issues associated with resilient and sustainable supply chains. Papers may explicitly address resilience and sustainability or concentrate only on one aspect of the myriad of topics that contribute to our understanding of improving logistics and supply chain management as a whole. As part of this general call for papers, there will be specific streams driven by enthusiasts with a passion for knowledge generation, enhancement, and delivery.

The Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems is an international forum for researchers in the area of algorithms and optimization methods to facilitate planning and operational management of freight and passenger transportation and traffic. ATMOS brings together researchers and practitioners who are interested in all aspects of algorithmic methods and models for transport optimization. The symposium provides a forum for the exchange and dissemination of new ideas and techniques. The aim of making transportation better gives rise to very complex and large-scale optimization problems requiring innovative solution techniques and ideas from algorithms, mathematical optimization, theoretical computer science, and operations research.

The 50th Annual Conference of the Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA) in collaboration with the African Federation of Operations Research Societies (AFROS) will take place at the North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa. The Conference is a celebration of the Society's 50th annual conference and as things currently stand, will take a hybrid format, allowing delegates to attend the conference in person or online. This will obviously be dependent on the Covid situation in South Africa, closer to the time.

Universität Augsburg

Parametric optimization is a part of mathematical programming and has emerged as an exciting research area in theory, numerics and applications. It investigates the properties of solutions to optimization problems under data perturbations or uncertainty. Many relations to other disciplines of operations research, like stochastic programming, complementarity problems, mixed-integer problems, model-building, numerical methods, multi-objective optimization and optimal control, originate from these properties. paraoptXII welcomes papers as well as proposals for special sessions on any area in parametric optimization or related topics. We hope that the conference will continue to help link researchers and practitioners from different areas of mathematical programming from around the world.

Modeling and Simulation,    Algorithms and Data Structues

Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

We are pleased to announce the 8th German-Polish Conference on Optimization – Methods and Applications, organized by the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and held at "Hotel am Schloss" in Apolda, Germany on September 20–24, 2021. The present conference is a continuation of the German-Polish Conference on Optimization series held in Żagań (1999), Cottbus (2002), Będlewo (2005), Moritzburg (2009), Kraków (2011), Wittenberg (2014) and Będlewo (2017).

Conference Office;     Phone: [+49 3641 946200];     Email: nadin.friebe@uni-jena.de

theory of smooth and non-smooth optimization, variational problems and variational inequalities, optimal control, inverse and ill-posed problems, combinatorial optimization, vector optimization, solution methods and applications of optimization

Graph Theory and Combinatorics,    Analysis

The 16th International Symposium on Operations Research in Slovenia (SOR ’21) will be held in Bled, Slovenia, September 22-24, 2021. The professional objectives of the international symposium are to provide a forum for international and national exchange of ideas on various aspects of OR and related fields.

A conference that brings together researchers and practitioners working at the interface of large/complex logistics systems and advanced computational methods from the fields of Operations Research, Business Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence.

L'école a pour but d'initier les doctorants et les jeunes chercheurs à quelques techniques mathématiques modernes pour le traitement théorique et numérique des données, qu'ils soient signal, image, graphes et réseaux ou nuages de points, etc. La théorie du transport optimal de masse (TOM) sera mise en avant afin d'initier les jeunes chercheurs à cette thématique moderne à l'interface entre l'optimisation, les EDP et les probabilités. Elle permet de traiter une large gamme de problèmes d'applications. Pour dynamiser et booster les activités de recherche locales, des applications modernes dans le domaine d'imagerie numériques, graphes et réseau seront largement traitées. Avant d'entamer les thématiques avancées de l’école qui touchent à la fois à la théorie, le numérique et les applications, nous prévoyons des cours introductifs de niveau Master accompagnés de TP autour de l'optimisation, l'image, les données et des logiciels de programmation. Des séances de TP encadrées seront organisées pour illustrer et mettre en œuvre certaines méthodes numériques des cours avancés.

Gaziantep University with the collaboration of the Logistics Association (LODER), Hasan Kalyoncu University, and Poznan University of Economics and Business

he congress provides an excellent opportunity for both researchers and practitioners to discuss recent and future trends in logistics and supply chain management. LMSCM2021 encourages multidisciplinary networks and platforms for academics and professionals to identify the challenges and discuss solutions for logistics and supply chain management and welcomes scientific and practical contributions from different disciplines and fields.

META is one of the most popular conference focusing in the area of metaheuristics and their applications. As in the previous six editions, META will provide an opportunity to the international research community in metaheuristics for optimization and machine learning to discuss recent research results, to develop new ideas and collaborations, and to meet researchers from diverse countries in a friendly and excellent atmosphere.

The ADT 2021 conference focus is on algorithmic decision theory broadly defined, seeking to bring together researchers and practitioners coming from diverse areas of Computer Science, Economics and Operations Research in order to improve the theory and practice of modern decision support. The conference topics include research in Algorithms, Argumentation Theory, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Social Choice, Database Systems, Decision Analysis, Discrete Mathematics, Game Theory, Machine Learning, Matching, Multi-agent Systems, Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding, Networks, Optimization, Risk Management, and Utility Theory.

Algorithms and Data Structues,    Information Theory, Foundations of Computer Science

Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO, Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics)

Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers,    Graph Theory and Combinatorics

MCO 2021 is co-organized by Computer Science and Applications Department (IA), LGIPM, University of Lorraine, France, Academy of Cryptography Techniques, Vietnam, Data science and Optimization of complex systems (DataOpt) Laboratory, International School, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam, and Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam.

MCO 2021 will cover several fields of Management Sciences and Information Systems: Computer Sciences, Information Technology, Mathematical Programming, Optimization & Operations Research, and related areas. The conference should allow researchers and practitioners to discuss recent developments in models and solutions methods for decision making in Engineering and Information Systems.

INSTICC, the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

The purpose of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES) is to bring together researchers, engineers, faculty, and practitioners interested in both theoretical advances and practical applications in the field of operations research. Two simultaneous tracks will be held, covering on one side domain independent methodologies and technologies and on the other side practical work developed in specific application areas. ICORES focuses on real world challenges; therefore authors should highlight the benefits of Operations Research Methodologies and Technologies for industry and services, either in general or for particular applications. Ideas on how to solve specific business problems as well as larger enterprise challenges, using operations research methodologies and technologies, will arise from the conference. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, case studies, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICORES. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both formal oral presentations and informal poster sessions. Special sessions focused on case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials for technical/scientific topics and practical applications are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in offering a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat.

Phone: [+351 265 520 185];     Email: icores.secretariat@insticc.org

The IPMU Conference is organized every two years since 1986 with the focus of bringing together scientists working on methods for the management of uncertainty and aggregation. It also provides a forum for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners in these and related areas.

Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning,    Probability and Statistics, Game Theory

CIRM – Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques

Probability and Statistics, Game Theory,    Modeling and Simulation