Scope:

BALCOR is an international conference which traditionally gathers operational researchers with objective to present both theoretical and applied results. The main benefits are the successful exchange of ideas and information of interest to operational research and the promotion of international co-operation, especially among the Balkan countries. Furthermore, distinguished invited keynote speakers will participate at the conference.

Conference Topics:

The organisers invite all researchers, academicians, practitioners, as well as students interested in all branches of operational research, mathematical modeling and decision making to participate at the conference and to present their current research in the following indicative areas:

- Banking & Financial Decision Making

- Combinatorial Optimization & Integer Programming

- Construction Project Management

- Data Envelopment Analysis & Performance Measurement

- Data Mining Analytics for Business Intelligence

- Decision Support Systems

- E-Commerce in Operations Management

- Game Theory

- Parallel Processing in O.R. & Grid Computing

- Heuristics, Metaheuristics & Nature Inspired Optimization Algorithms

- Linear & Nonlinear Programming

- Locational Analysis

- Logistics & Supply Chain Management

- Marketing & Operations Management

- Mathematical Programming

- Military Operational Research

- Mathematical Modeling & Decision Making

- Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis & Multi-Objective Optimization

- Network Optimization & Telecommunications

- Optimization Software

- Optimal Control

- O.R. in Agriculture and Forest Management

- Project Management & Scheduling

- Risk Analysis & Management

- Statistics & Stochastics

- Structural Optimization

Conference Proceedings:

All accepted papers will be included either in conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag (pending approval) or will be included in additional local proceedings that will be distributed during the conference.

Prizes & Awards:

Best paper award in various streams & optimization software licenses from the conference sponsors LINDO Systems, Inc. & Banxia Software Ltd.

New Important Dates:

Deadline for full paper submission: April 11, 2011

Notification of acceptance: May 9, 2011

Deadline for camera-ready papers submission: May 30, 2011

Deadline for early registration: May 30, 2011

Deadline for late registration: July 25, 2011

Conference dates: September 22 to September 25, 2011.

Submissions should be uploaded to the EasyChair Conference system:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=balcor2011

Contact:

Dr. Angelo Sifaleras, Lecturer in Operational Research - Combinatorial Optimization

E-mail:  sifalera@uom.gr, Tel. +30-2310-891881, Fax +30-2312-201009

BALCOR 2011 organization committee: balcor@uom.gr

For further information, please go to: 

Event website: http://balcor.uom.gr

Call for papers: http://balcor.uom.gr/cfp.pdf

Source: Information provided by organisers.

Date:
From: 22 September 2011
To: 25 September 2011