The International Conference on OR for Development (ICORD) used to be sponsored by IFORS (http://ifors.org/web/icord-history) every 3 years but in recent years workshops have also been held in the intervening years: the last two were held in Tunisia and Rome in collaboration with the Euro Working Group on OR for Development*. This conference will be similarly organized. It aims to improve the links among researchers with the view to improving each other’s effectiveness at bringing about meaningful changes towards development.

ICORD 2014 will again be hosted by IFORS in co-operation with the EWG ORD in the days preceding the IFORS Conference in Barcelona. ICORD 2014 will be held at the University of Lleida, Catalonia, accessible by a 1-hour train ride from Barcelona or 2-hours from Madrid.

Papers had been screened to include only those that have helped or have the potential to help decision-making processes in the area of education, health, and other basic services, water, technology, resource use (physical or financial), infrastructure, agricultural industrialization, and environmental sustainability. A stress on developmental issues has guided the selection process, thus papers of purely technical nature, or those that have no relevance in the developmental context have not been accepted.

Papers for presentation to ICORD 2014 had been selected. Participants are invited to register to take part in the Workshop and give their views on papers assigned to them. Please fill up the Registration Form .

Registration Open for Participants until June 15, 2014

Youssef Masmoudi (youssef.masmoudi@gmail.com)
Lluís Miquel Pla Aragonés (lmpla@matematica.udl.cat)

Elise del Rosario (elise@jgdelrosario.com)
Honora Smith (honora.smith@soton.ac.uk)
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber (gweber@metu.edu.tr)

The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) http://ifors.org/web/ is an umbrella organization comprising the national Operations Research societies fifty countries from these geographical regions: Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa, North America, South America
Total membership is over 30,000 persons. IFORS’ mission is to promote Operations Research as an academic discipline and a profession.
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 and facilitate communication links among researchers working in areas of operational research for development. EWG ORD actively organized / co-organized workshops or streams on operational research for development during EURO 2006, EURO 2007, IFORS 2008, EURO 2009, EURO 2010, IFORS 2011 and EURO 2012. These activities have been successful in promoting the importance of operational research and its related techniques to improving living conditions in developing and developed countries.