From - Sun Nov 2 21:21:52 1997 Received: from CS.Stanford.EDU (CS.Stanford.EDU [171.64.64.64]) by robotics.Stanford.EDU (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA25481; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:25:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from listserv-mail.surfnet.nl (listserv-mail.surfnet.nl [192.87.5.141]) by CS.Stanford.EDU (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA12601; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:25:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from listserv-mail (192.87.5.141) by listserv-mail.surfnet.nl (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.341B6F20@listserv-mail.surfnet.nl>; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 18:20:38 +0200 Received: from NIC.SURFNET.NL by NIC.SURFNET.NL (LISTSERV release 1.8c) with NJE id 1745 for DMA-LIST@NIC.SURFNET.NL; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 18:25:49 +0200 Received: from HEARN (NJE origin SMTP@HEARN) by HEARN.NIC.SURFNET.NL (LMail V1.2c/1.8c) with BSMTP id 5973; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 18:25:48 +0200 Received: from utmfu6.math.utwente.nl by HEARN.nic.SURFnet.nl (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Thu, 16 Oct 97 18:25:45 +0200 Received: from utmfu0.math.utwente.nl (utmou1.math.utwente.nl) by utmfu6.math.utwente.nl with ESMTP (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA164849072; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 18:24:38 +0200 Received: by utmfu0.math.utwente.nl ($Revision: 1.36.108.11 $/16.2) id AA156819070; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 18:24:30 +0200 Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.36.1.1] Approved-By: DMANET Message-ID: <199710161624.AA156819070@utmfu0.math.utwente.nl> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 18:24:28 METDST Reply-To: or98@ifor.math.ethz.ch Sender: DMANET From: DMANET Subject: OR'98 - First announcement and call for papers To: DMA-LIST@NIC.SURFNET.NL Status: O X-Status: First Announcement and Call for Papers OR 98 - International Conference on Operations Research 31 August - 3 September 1998, ETH Zurich, Switzerland ---------------------------------------------------------------- Up-to-date information on the conference can be found at OR 98 web site at http://www.or98.ethz.ch The Program Committee invites papers of presentations in all areas of Operations Research. The conference will give particular attention to the following topics: SECTION CHAIRPERSONS 1 : Mathematical Optimization A) Continuous Feichtinger, Horst, Vial B) Discrete Burkard, Hertz, Reinelt 2 : Stochastic Modelling, Optimization and Simulation Rieder, Stadlober 3 : Econometrics and Statistics Deistler, Garbers, Schmitz 4 : Mathematical Economics, Game Theory and Decision Theory Brachinger, Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger 5 : Banking and Finance Buehler, Frauendorfer, Zechner 6 : Operations and Production Management Guenther, Jammernegg, Tempelmeier 7 : Energy and Ecology Haurie, Kalliauer 8 : Telecommunication Martine Labbe, Mechthild Stoer 9 : Logistics and Transportation Domschke, Fleischmann, Staehly 10 : Fuzzy Systems and Neural Networks Rommelfanger, Brigitte Werners Conference Languages : English and German DEADLINES Deadline for submission of extended abstracts: 15 January 1998 Notice of acceptance: 1 April 1998 SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors wishing to contribute papers are requested to submit a) the author/s full name/s, affiliation/s and address/es (including e-mail) b) an extended abstract of two pages (indicating intended section) The extended abstract should be submitted either as hardcopy (4 copies) or by e-mail as ASCII/TeX/LaTeX-file to: Institut fuer Operations Research der Universitaet Zuerich OR 98 Moussonstrasse 15 CH-8044 Zuerich e-mail : kall@ior.unizh.ch Extended abstracts will be refereed and accepted papers will be subdivided for a) presentation in a session (30 minutes including discussion) b) presentation within special "poster sessions" About 50 full papers will be selected for publication in the Proceedings of the Conference. CHAIRMAN CONFERENCE Prof. H.-J. Luethi CHAIRMAN PROGRAM COMMITTEE Prof. P. Kall PLENARY SPEAKERS Prof. M. Groetschel, Berlin Prof. Th.L. Magnanti, MIT Prof. F.J. Radermacher, Ulm Prof. F. Delbaen, ETH Zurich Prof. F. Jensen, Aalborg -- ****************************************************** Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to DMANET@math.utwente.nl Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The original sender, however, is invited to prepare an update of the replies received and to communicate it via DMANET. DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET)