Call for Participants

EWG ORD – IFORS  Workshop on OR for Development
Graham Hills Building, University of Strathclyde
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
July 9-10, 2014
(in conjunction with EURO 2015)

Background

The EURO Working Group on Operational Research for Development (EWG
ORD)
(http://www.euro-online.org/web/ewg/29/or-for-development-ewg-ord)
aims to promote communication and collaboration among researchers
working in areas of operational research for development within and
outside of EURO. EWG ORD actively organized / co-organized workshops
or streams on operational research for development in all of: EURO
2006, EURO 2007, EURO 2008, IFORS 2008, EURO 2009, EURO 2010, IFORS
2011, EURO 2012, EURO 2013 and IFORS 2014. These activities had been
successful in promoting the importance of operational research and its
related techniques to improving living conditions in the developing
and developed countries.

Call for Participants

Operations Researchers who have done work in the area of OR for
Development are invited to participate. To qualify, participants are
required to submit a full paper on their work which have used
Operations Research to help decision-making process in the area of
education, health, and other basic services, water, technology,
resource use (physical or financial), infrastructure,
agricultural/industrialization, 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.

Participants who have taken part in previous ICORD/EWG Workshops and
those who have brought their work forward are encouraged to attend to
report on developments on their previously presented work.

Conference Format
The Workshop will feature presentations by the participants of their
papers. Paper reviewers will be assigned in advance. 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 plenary session/s for invited speakers.

Important Dates
Full Paper Submission           January 16, 2015
Notification of Acceptance    February 6 , 2015

Subsidised Conference Registration Fee
EURO 200, inclusive of materials, snacks & lunch

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

For inquiries, please contact:

Elise del Rosario elise@jgdelrosario.com
Honora Smith honora.smith@soton.ac.uk
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber gweber@metu.edu.tr
Andres F. Osorio afo1e13@soton.ac.uk
Soheil Davari DavariS@cardiff.ac.uk
Sue Merchant  suemerchant@hotmail.com

Watch out for announcements on the invited Workshop session and other
details to be released January 2015.