CALL FOR PAPERS 4th International Conference on Applied Operational Research (ICAOR’12) 25-27 July 2012 Grand Mercure Fortune Bangkok, Thailand www.tadbir.ca ________________________________________ The conference brings together academics and practitioners from around the world with an opportunity to discuss current issues in operational research and management science (OR/MS). The ICAOR 2012 conference will take place at Grand Mercure Fortune in the city of Bangkok, Thailand. We invite you to join your colleagues for this international meeting. ________________________________________ Conference Theme The conference covers all aspects of OR/MS with particular emphasis on applications, including, but not limited to: - Agriculture and Fisheries - Data Mining and Forecasting - Decision Analysis and Optimization - Defence and Military - Education, Government and Sports - Energy, Natural Resources and Environment - Financial and Business Applications - Graphs, Networks and Location - Health and Social Services - Manufacturing, Maintenance and Services - Quality, Statistics and Reliability - Supply Chain Management and Logistics - Telecommunications and Information Science - Timetabling, Scheduling and Queuing - Transportation, Traffic and Logistic Paper Submission Researchers wishing to contribute to the conference are invited to submit manuscripts of not more than 6 pages either as full papers or extended abstracts. Manuscripts should be submitted online through the conference website submission system in MS Word. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two referees, and successful papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by Lecture Notes in Management Science (LNMS). Special Issues The authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration to the Journal of Applied Operational Research (JAOR). Important Dates 15-Sep-2011 - Submission opens 30-Mar-2012 - Paper submission deadline 30-Apr-2012 - Notification of decisions 15-May-2012 - Registration deadline 30-May-2012 - Camera-ready deadline 25-Jul-2012 - Conference starts Scientific Programme Committee Ben Atkinson, London Metropolitan University, UK Walailak Atthirawong, KMITL, Thailand Greet Vanden Berghe, KAHO Sint-Lieven, Belgium Frank Beichelt, Uni of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (Chairman) Peerayuth Charnsethikul, Kasetsart University, Thailand Mikael Collan, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Javier Faulin, Public University of Navarra, Spain Mario Fedrizzi, University of Trento, Italy Robert Fuller, Eötvös Lorand University, Hungary Manfred Gronalt, Univ of Natural Resources & Life Sci, Austria Yavuz Gunalay, Bahcesehir University, Turkey Patrick Hirsch, Univ of Natural Resources & Life Sci, Austria Angel Juan, Open University of Catalonia, Spain Rym MHallah, Kuwait University, Kuwait Sigrid Knust, Osnabrück University, Germany Peter Lakner, New York University, USA Gilbert Laporte, HEC Montréal, Canada Jesper Larsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark (Co-Chair) Anna Lawrynowicz, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland Yuri Lawryshyn, University of Toronto, Canada Pongchanun Luangpaiboon, Thammasat Uni, Thailand (Co-Chair) Ines Marques, Lusophone University of Hum & Tech, Portugal Roberto Montemanni, Dalle Molle Institute for AI, Switzerland Margarida Moz, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Iulian Nastac, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania Patcharaporn Neammanee, NIDA, Thailand Pamela Nolz, Vienna Univ of Economics and Business, Austria Tomas Eric Nordlander, SINTEF, Norway Peter Rauch, Univ of Natural Resources & Life Sci, Austria Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy Kaveh Sheibani, Tadbir OR Group Ltd, Canada (Co-Chair) Stella Sofianopoulou, University of Piraeus, Greece Arnaldo Vallim, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil Ursula Walther, Frankfurt Sch of Fin & Man, Germany (Co-Chair) Julian Yeomans, York University, Canada Programme Chairs ICAOR’12 Local Chair Pongchanun Luangpaiboon, Thammasat University, Thailand ICAOR’12 PC Chair Frank Beichelt, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa ICAOR General Chair Kaveh Sheibani, Tadbir OR Group Ltd, Canada Contacts icaor@tadbir.ca