June 1996 € Volume 23 € Number 3

Calendar

1996

July 8-12: IFORS '96 14th Triennial Confence in Vancouver, British Columbia. Contact Conference Secretariat, Venue West Conference Services Ltd., 645-375 Water St., Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6B 5C6; Phone: (604) 681-5226; Fax: (604) 681-2503.

July 13-15: Fourth International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process, Simon Fraser University's Burnaby Mountain Campus, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The sessions will commence immediately after IFORS' 96 (July 8-12). Papers presented at the symposium will be from academics and practitioners in the AHP field. Contact: William C. Wedley, ISAHP IV Chairperson, Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B. C., CANADA, V5A 1S6; Phone: (604) 291-4528; Fax: (604) 291-4920; E-mail: wedley@sfu.ca

July 16-19: International Conference On Management Science and the Economic Development of China, jointly organized by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and Tsinghua University, will be held at the campus of HKUST in Hong Kong. For information, contact: MS Conference, Department of ISMT, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong; Phone: (852) 2358-7733; Fax: (852) 2358-1946; E-mail: msconf@usthk.ust.hk

Sept. 4-6: Symposium on Operations Research 1996 (SOR 1996) -- The Annual Conference of DGOR and GMÖOR -- at the Technical University of Braunschweig. Contact Prof. Dr.U. Zimmermann, Abt. Mathematische Optimierung, TU Braunschweig, D-38106 Braunschweig; Phone: +49 (0) 531-391-7550; Fax: +49 (0) 531-391-7559; E-mail: sor96@tu-bs.de

Sept. 5-8: Ninth Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis in Birmingham, U.K. Contact Dr. S. Salhi, Management Mathematics Group, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, England; Phone: +44 121 414 6602; Fax: +44 121 414 3389; E-mail: s.salhi@bham.ac.uk

Sept. 12-13: Operations Research for Managers at Stanford University -- a hands-on workshop covering forecasting, simulation and optimization using spreadsheets, modeling languages and other accessible microcomputer software. Contact OR for Managers, Stanford University, 424 Terman Engineering Center, Stanford, CA 94305-4022; Phone: (415) 725-0559; Fax: (415) 723-4107.

Sept. 17-20: The Social Role of Operational Research - the AIRO (Italy) Annual Conference in Perugia, Italy. Contact AIRO '96, Prof. Stefano Pallottino, Instituto di Elettronica, Universida di Perugia, Strada S. Lucia-Canetola, 06131 Perugia, Italy.

Sept. 19-21: International Conference in Riga, Latvia, sponsored by IFORS (International Federation of Operational Research Societies), EURO (Association of European Operational Research Societies within IFORS), The Swedish Institute, and The Latvian Council of Sciences. Further information can be obtained via the World Wide Web at http://www.itl.rtu.lv/Riga_Conf96; or contact Mikael Ankelius, Economic Information Systems, IDA, Linkoping University S-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden.

Oct. 1-3: Sixth International Conference on Operational Research in Rvinj, Croatia, organized by CRORS. Contact Vesna Kos, Ekonomski Fakultet, Kennedyjev trg 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia; Phone: +385 1 233 1111; Fax: +385 1 233 5633; E-mail: neralic@oliver.efzg.hr

Oct. 1-3: International Conference of the Swedish Operations Research Society -- Managing the Technological Society: The Next Century's Challenge to O.R. Contact Prof. J.D.R. de Raadt, President, Swedish Operations Research Association, School of Business Administration and Social Sciences, Luleå University, S 971 87 Luleå, Sweden; Phone: +46 920 918 18; Fax: +46 920 721 60; E-mail: Donald.de.Raadt@ies.luth.se

Oct. 9-11: Practical Successful Systems -- The 50th Annual North East Quality Control Conference at the Hartford, Conn., Marriott Hotel/Farmington, hosted by the Connecticut section of the American Society for Quality Control. The educational and technical programs will cover the topics of driving process improvements for results, practical applications of information technology, hands-on development of ISO 9000 systems, and measuring and assessing performance. Contact Joe Trowbridge, NEQCC Registration Committee, P.O. Box 380385, East Hartford, CT 06138-0385; Phone: (860) 677-8105; Fax: (860) 676-0433.

Oct. 9-13: 1996 Association for Consumer Research Conference at the Loewes Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, Ariz. The theme for the conference is "Breaking Out of the Box" and deals with developing innovative ways of thinking (new paradigms, linkages, phenomena, methods); examining a given phenomenon from a diversity of methodological and/or theoretical perspectives; and creating synergy by solidifying our appreciation of a core research discipline of consumer behavior. Contact: Debbie MacInnis, Department of Marketing, University of Southern California; Phone: 213-938-1449 (home) or 213-740-5039 (office); Fax: 213-938-0230 (home); 213-740-7828 (office); E-mail: macinnis@mizar.usc.edu

Nov. 11-15: II ALIO/EURO Workshop on Practical Combinatorial Optimization in Valparaiso, Chile, sponsored by EURO and ALIO (Latin-Iberian-American Assocation of Operation Research Societies. Contact School of Industrial Engineering, Catholic University of Valparaiso, Av. Brazil 2147, 3 er, Valparaiso, Chile; Phone: +56 32 214823; Fax: +56 32 214823; E-mail: pracomo@aix1.ucv.cl

Nov. 13-14: The 35th Annual U.S. Army Operations Research Symposium (AORS XXXV) - Responsive, Relevant, Real World Analysis - at Fort Lee, Va. Special sessions include force development/modernization/requirements analysis; information warfare/digitization of battlefield; and force application modeling/analysis (conventional and OOTW). Contact Director, U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity, ATTN.: AMXSY-SL, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5071; Phone: 410-278-6576; DSN: 298-6576.

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