Conferences and Meetings on Operational research

European Working Group on Project Management and Scheduling (EURO - EWG Project management and scheduling)

PMS is an international workshop series devoted to Project Management and Scheduling. It was inaugurated by the European Working Group on Project Management and Scheduling (EURO - EWG Project management and scheduling), originally coordinated by Prof. Jan Węglarz from the Poznań University of Technology (Poland) and now coordinated by Prof. Erik Demeulemeester (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Prof. Joanna Jozefowska (Poznań University of Technology, Poland).

ESICUP gathers practitioners, researchers and Operations Research educators with interests in the area of Cutting and Packing. The purpose of ESICUP is to improve communication among individuals working in this field.

ISCO (Integer Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization) is a biannual symposium whose aim is to bring together researchers from all the communities related to combinatorial optimization, including algorithms and complexity, mathematical programming, operations research, stochastic optimization, graphs and combinatorics. Quality papers on all aspects of combinatorial optimization, from mathematical foundations and theory of algorithms to computational studies and practical applications, are solicited.

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)

The goal of the workshop is to explore the many emerging connections between the theory of Optimal Transport and models and algorithms currently used in the Machine Learning community. In particular, the use of Wasserstein metrics and the relation between discrete models and their continuous counterparts will be presented and discussed.

Optimal transport has now become an integral part of models for important tasks in machine learning, including deep learning and domain transfer. Recently, analytical approaches have shown to provide important information about the behavior of the functions that model key tasks in machine learning, including their asymptotics and stability, as well as their numerical optimization. The aim of the workshop is to bring together experts, as well as young researchers, in optimal transportation, applied analysis, scientific computing, and machine learning, to consider some of the interesting and deep research questions that would benefit from joint expertise.

This meeting explores the intersections and uncharted territories between machine learning, artificial intelligence, mathematical programming and algorithms for hard optimization problems. The main purpose of the event is to bring together experts from these areas to discuss new ideas and methods, challenges and opportunities in various application areas, general trends and specific developments. We are excited to be bringing the LION conference in Greece for the third time.

The 2020 School on Column Generation is the fourth of its kind (after Paris, France, in 2018 and 2014, Darmstadt, Germany, in 2010 and Montréal, Canada, in 2006) and aims at teaching the state-of-the-art in column generation and branch-and-price to advanced students and PhD students but also to practitioners and researchers interested. The lectures will be given by renowned scientists in the field. The participants will have the opportunity to present their own research or application problems in order to foster discussions and create a "real workshop atmosphere".

Basic theory (decompositions, reformulations, convexification, discretization, etc.), vehicle routing and crew scheduling applications, shortest path subproblems, column generation heuristics, master problem issues (stabilization, aggregation), branching and cutting

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics – SIAM

Analysis,    Modeling and Simulation

Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers,    Transportation and Logistics

ECCO (European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization) is a working group of EURO (Association of European Operational Research Societies) that provides an excellent opportunity to discuss recent and important issues in Combinatorial Optimization and its a

London School of Economics and Political Science

CORS (Canadian Operational Research Society)

The CORS conference is an annual event that brings together OR/MS academics and practitioners from Canada and abroad. Boasting intriguing plenary presentations, tutorials, hundreds of oral presentations, and several competitions, as well as the Canadian Healthcare Optimization Workshop and Analytics Day.

Faculty of mathematics and natural sciences, Kaunas university of technology

The Workshop brings together researchers and business representatives for solving real-world problems that modern companies face. During week-long workshop, participants work in groups and solve tasks that business representatives have introduced.

Organizing committee;     Phone: [+370 677 13 231];     Email: mathworkshop@ktu.edu

Mathematics, Business, Workshop, Real-world problems, Industry

Applied Mathematics (in general),    Modeling and Simulation

The PhD Summer Academy for PhD students is a 2 weeks intense period of learning for PhD students, debating, and discovering the fundamental concepts and recent trends in supply chain management, in addition to meeting future colleagues and having a great time in Zaragoza, Spain.

Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers,    Transportation and Logistics

ISOLDE XV and EWGLA XXVI takes place in Hamburg and Timmendorfer Strand (at the Baltic Sea) in Germany on June 14 - 19, 2020. Information regarding the conference is provided on this website. More information will be added in due time, as for example, the schedule and the social activities.

Continuous Location, Network Location, Discrete Location, Hub Location, Location and Logistics, Location Decisions in Traffic Planning, Network Design, Location under Uncertainty, Location-Routing, Applications of Location Problems, Territory Design

SEA aims to attract papers from both the Computer Science and the Operations Research/Mathematical Programming communities. The main theme of the symposium is the role of experimentation and of algorithm engineering techniques in the design and evaluation of algorithms and data structures.

Algorithms,    Scientific Computing

Electric Power Transmission, Power Grid, Smart Grid,    Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers

IFORS 2020 Seoul is jointly organized by the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) and the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society (KORMS).

University of Córdoba, Spain

In recent decades, the diversification of automated learning applications has led to new requirements inherent in the availability of large-scale data. Given the new scientific and technological challenges that are encountered, mathematical optimization has been established as the right approach for many Machine Learning problems. The specific requirements of machine learning raise new challenges for optimization. In turn, optimization takes advantage of machine learning insofar as concepts, formalisms, approximations and algorithms are revisited. LOPAL’2020 will be a relevant opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and educators around the world to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns together with the theoretical and practical challenges encountered and their applications.

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.

Main topics related to the workshop scope are scheduling with variable job processing times (controllable job processing times, time-dependent job processing times, position-dependent job processing times, resource-dependent job processing times, malleable task scheduling, scheduling pliable jobs), scheduling with various factors affecting job execution (ageing, alteration, deterioration, learning, shortening), scheduling on variable speed machines (energy-efficient scheduling, scheduling under time-of-use electricity tariffs, scheduling with rate-modifying activities, scheduling with maintenance activities), scheduling under uncertainty (robust scheduling, stochastic scheduling, scheduling with explorable uncertainty), other scheduling problems with parameters changing in time.

INESC-TEC Porto / EURO – The Association of European Operational Research Societies

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society (MSOM | Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta and Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary

EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies)

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.

The International Federation of Logistics and SCM Systems (IFLS)

The summer school runs for a full week Monday-Friday in early July when Sweden is at its best, with arrival on Sunday evening and departure Saturday morning. S3CS consists of mini-courses on The Method of Moments in Computer Science and Beyond by Ankur Moitra and Polyhedral Techniques in Combinatorial Optimization by Ola Svensson.

Graph Theory and Combinatorics,    Training in Computer Science, Courses

The aims of the conference is to bring together a wide research community in the fields of mathematical programming and global optimization, discrete optimization, complexity theory and combinatorial algorithms, games and their applications in relevant practical problems of operations research, mathematical economy, and data analysis.

theory of mathematical optimization - integer programming and combinatorial optimization - global optimization, stochastic integer programming, multi-objective programming - computational complexity of combinatorial optimization problems - approximation algorithms and schemes - heuristics and metaheuristics for decision making and artificial intellegence - game theory, mathematical economics, and multilevel programming - optimization in machine learning and data analysis - applications in operations research: scheduling, routing, facility location, packing and cutting, supply chain, etc.

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.

Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (CIRM)

Analysis,    Mathematical Economics and Finance

Naresuan University, Department of Mathematics

The 11th Asian Conference on Fixed Point Theory and Optimization 2020 (ACFPTO2020) will be held at Siam Bayshore, Pattaya, Thailand, during July 15 – 18, 2020. The main aim of the conference is to bring together leading experts and researchers in fixed point theory and optimization in order to assess new developments, ideas and methods in this very active, important and dynamic field of Mathematics. A special emphasis will be put on applications in related areas, as well as in such other sciences as natural sciences, economics and engineering. Contributions to the links between these two domains as well as the solution of real-life problems are particularly appreciated.

The Secretariat of ACFPTO2020;     Email: narinp@nu.ac.th

Nonlinear Functional Analysis, Optimization, Computational and Optimization

Analysis,    Numerical Analysis and Computational Mathematics

Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO)

For one week, PhD students and young researchers have the opportunity to learn more on how operational research methods can support organizations on the design, planning and operation of supply chains towards sustainability goals.

The main purpose of ELAVIO is to encourage and strengthen scientific studies conducted by young researchers in the area of Operational Research, training them on topics that are the state of the art in this area, and promoting future scientific collaborations among young researchers and experienced researchers from different Latin-Ibero-American regions and from the world. To fulfill this purpose, ELAVIO 2020 will gather several renowned researchers as invited speakers, who will teach short courses and tutorials (see section Speakers and Courses on our site), besides evaluating the research papers presented by young researchers and commenting on improvements to them. The official languages of ELAVIO are Spanish, Portuguese and English. Short courses and tutorials, and presentations by participants will be given in any of these languages (with slides in English).

SustSC 2020 is organized by the EURO Working Group (EWG) on Sustainable Supply Chains in cooperation with the Operations and Logistics Research Group of the Centre of Management Studies, Instituto Superior T�cnico, Lisbon University and sponsored by the A

The purpose of the SustSC 2020 Conference is to offer the European and international sustainable supply chain community (researchers and practitioners) the opportunity to present state-of-the-art developments and to discuss current research challenges.

University of Vienna

ORAHS provides a network for researchers involved in the application of systematic and quantitative analysis in support of planning and management in the health services sector. The meeting is open to anyone with a quantitative background and those who have interest in the subject area.

APDIO (the Portuguese Operations Research Society)

The main objective of the Optimization 2020 conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different areas and backgrounds, but with common interests in Optimization. This meeting has international recognition as an important forum of discussion and exchange of ideas. It is the 10th edition of a series of international conferences in optimization organized in Portugal under the auspices of APDIO (the Portuguese Operations Research Society). The conference will take place in the University of Aveiro, July 27-29, 2020.

APDIO (the Portuguese Operations Research Society)

The main objective of the Optimization 2020 conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different areas and backgrounds, but with common interests in Optimization. This meeting has international recognition as an important forum of discussion and exchange of ideas.

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.

Aspects that shall be covered include: 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.)

The international Metaheuristics Summer School is aimed at qualified and strongly motivated MSc and PhD students; post-docs; young researchers, and both academic and industrial professionals to provide an overview on the several metaheuristics techniques, and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art. The main theme of the 2020 edition is "Learning and Optimization from Big Data", therefore MESS 2020 wants to focus on (i) Learning for Metaheuristics; (ii) Optimization in Machine Learning; and (iii) how Optimization and Learning affect the Metaheuristics making them relevant in handling Big Data.

Information & Knowledge Management, Big Data Computing,    Courses and Events for Math Students and Early Career Researchers

Innovative tools for reliability analysis and decision making in design, operation and maintenance of engineering systems in today’s connected era, are critical for safe, reliable and effective operation of these systems. The 9th Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Advanced Reliability and Maintenance Modelling (APARM 2020) to be held at the Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver, Canada (August 21 to 24, 2020) aims to provide a friendly platform for synergistic exchanges of ideas and practices among academics and industry practitioners. The conference will cover a broad range of research and application topics relevant to reliability and maintenance.

Queueing theory is concerned with developing and investigating mathematical models of systems where “customers” wait for “service.” The terms “customers” and “servers” are generic. Customers could, for example, be humans waiting in a physical line or waiting on hold on the telephone, jobs waiting to be processed in a factory, or tasks waiting for processing in a computer or communication system. The CanQueue annual conference started from a workshop, organized by Prof. Alfa, at the University of Manitoba in 1999. Since then, twenty (20) CanQueue conferences have been held in Canada, including CanQueue 2002 at U of S; 2004 at UBC Okanagan, 2006 and 2011 at Banff, both sponsored by BIRS. It was a decision at the CanQueue2019, at Fields Institute in Toronto in August 2019 that CanQueue 2020 will be organized by us and held at Banff (based on the feedback from Canadian queueing community people).

KU Leuven

Algorithm Portfolios Expert Systems Heuristic Search Machine Learning Multi-objective Approaches Timetabling in Healthcare Constraint-Based Methods Foundational Studies Hybrid Methods Mathematical Programming Parallel/Distributed Computing Timetabling in Transport Educational Timetabling Fuzzy Systems Hyper-heuristics Metaheuristics Resource Capacity Planning Tools and Applications Employee Rostering Graph Colouring Knowledge Based Systems Multi-criteria Decision Making Sports Timetabling

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).

University of Bath

Exact optimization methods, Approximation algorithms, Heuristics, metaheuristics, and hyperheuristics, Decomposition-based algorithms, Column generation, Valid inequalities, Computational complexity, Polyhedral analysis, Interior-point methods, Bilevel programming, Graph theory, Game theory, Applications

EURO – The Association of European Operational Research Societies

Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at El Paso

Constraint programming techniques are important components of intelligent systems. They constitute a declarative and efficient methodology to represent and solve many practical problems. They have been applied successfully to a number of fields, such as scheduling of air traffic, software engineering, networks security, chemistry, and biology. Despite the proved usefulness of these techniques, they are still under-utilized in real-life applications. One reason is the perceived lack of effective communication between constraint programming experts and domain practitioners about constraints, in general, and their use in decision making, in particular.

Software Engineering,    Modeling and Simulation

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.

combinatorial and continuous global optimization, unconstrained and constrained optimization, multiobjective and robust optimization, optimization in dynamic and/or noisy environments, optimization on graphs, large-scale optimization, in parallel and distributed computational environments, meta-heuristics for optimization, nature-inspired approaches and any other derivative-free methods, exact/heuristic hybrid methods, involving natural computing techniques and other global and local optimization methods, numerical and heuristic methods for modeling

Modeling and Simulation,    Numerical Analysis and Computational Mathematics

TU Wien, Austria

QONFEST is the umbrella conference comprising the joint international 2020 meetings: CONCUR 2020, the 31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory FMICS 2020, the 25th International Conference on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems FORMATS 2020, the 18th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems QEST 2020, the 17th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems alongside with several workshops (DHS, EXPRESS/SOS, FRIDA, QAVS, TRENDS, SNR) and tutorials.

German Operations Research Society (GOR)

Welcome to the OR 2020 conference, the annual international conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), with the support of the Technische Universität Braunschweig. OR 2020 will take place from September 08 to September 11, 2020 at the Technische Universität Braunschweig in Braunschweig, Germany.

Email: info@or2020.de

The International Conference on Optimization and Decision Science is organized by AIRO, Italian Operations Research Society and DSS (Dept. of Statistical Sciences).

The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT)

LRN 2020 will debate and critique the whole range of contemporary issues associated with 'public value'. Papers may explicitly address 'public value' supply chains, or indeed 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 public value supply chain: delivering economic, environmental and social benefits to all

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.

Algorithms,    Modeling and Simulation

OR – The Operational Research Society

This three-day event mixes academics and practitioners to create an extraordinary environment for cross-pollination of thought, approach and technique.

Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering in Belgrade

The Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering in Belgrade is delighted to host the XLVII Symposium on Operational Research – SYM-OP-IS 2020. SYM-OP-IS is an International Symposium since 1974. It presents an annual gathering of operational researchers, both theoreticians and practitioners, in order to exchange scientific and technical information, convey experiences and present new results achieved in the development and application of Operational research methods. The main aim of the Symposium is the development and applications of new Operational research methods, models and techniques. We strongly encourage submitting papers in some of the research areas covered by the Symposium sections. Various sections ensure a valuable mixture of theoretical and practical aspects of Operational Research.

University of Twente, Enschede

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.

Operations Research and Management in logistics, Routing problems, Emergency logistics, Reverse logistics, Crowd logistics, Freight transportation, Green supply chain , Metropolitan/city logistics , Smart Agro-Logistics, Uncertainty modelling in planning and control, Large-scale evolutionary optimization in logistics, Multi-agent systems in logistics, Self-organizing logistics, Internet of things in smart logistics, Artificial Intelligence in logistics, Machine learning applications in supply chain, Last generation ICT networks, Port smart logistics, ICT in logistics, Computational issues in foreign trade supply chains, Facility (re-)layout decision problems

This workshop aims to bring together the essential communities from mathematics and engineering to address forthcoming issues central to our future transportation systems. It will bring together the operations research experts developing the next generation of fleet dispatching algorithms vital to mobility on demand services, the transportation engineers responsible for planning the future of our public and private transportation systems, and the modelers responsible for predicting new congestion dynamics at local and city scales. The workshop will also explore how these systems will operate in city, suburb, and rural contexts to support mobility needs for all.

Part of the Long Program Mathematical Challenges and Opportunities for Autonomous Vehicles

Electrical Engineering,    Robotics, Automation & Mechatronics

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (informs)

Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

EMO 2021 is the 11th Edition of International Conference Series on Evolutionary Multi- Criterion Optimization (EMO), aiming to continue the success of previous EMO conferences. We will bring together both the EMO, Multiple Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) communities, and other related fields and, moreover, focusing on solving real-world problems in government, business and industry.

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)

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

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