Dear ORAFM members,

You are invited to submit a paper for the stream OR in Agriculture,
Forestry and Fisheries for the EURO XXVI.

To submit a paper in our stream, please visit
http://www.euro-online.org/conf/display.php?page=welcome
and log in with your username and password. Later on, make use of the code:
a641197d for papers realted with OR in Agriculture
a8a9b572 for papers realted with OR in Forestry
4acd0284 for papers realted with OR in Fisheries

Notice that it is also possible you organise a stream. If you have three
or four colleagues interested in a similar topic falling into the scope of
the stream. If so, don’t hesitate to contact with us and get an specific
code. Otherwise, you should use the general codes provided above.

Sincerely yours,
Victor Albornoz and Lluis M. Plà

Journal of Global Optimization - Special issue on Variable neighborhood search.

Guest Editors: Emilio Carrizosa (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain); Pierre Hansen (GERAD and École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Canada); José A. Moreno (Universidad de la Laguna, Spain).

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Journal of Advanced Operations Management - Special issue on Rich adn Real-Life Vehicle Routing Problems

Guest Editors: Angel A. Juan, Javier Faulin, Scott E. Grasman, Kannan Govindan

Vehicle routing problems (VRPs) have been extensively studied by researchers and practitioners during the last decades. Being complex problems with numerous and relevant potential applications, researchers from the fields of computer science, operations research and industrial engineering have developed very efficient algorithms, both of exact and approximate nature, to deal with different types of VRPs.
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Dear friends and colleagues we remember you that a stream of sessions devoted to OR in Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries is being organised for the 25th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXV) which will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania on 8-11 July, 2012.
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Journal of Applied Operational Research (JAOR) - Special Issue on OR Applications in Natural Resources Management

Guest Editors: Patrick Hirsch, Javier Faulin, Manfred Gronalt, and Angel A. Juan
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Guest editors

Andrés Weintraub (Chair)
Marcos Goycoolea
Robert Haight
Hayri Önal
Mikael Rönnqvist

The Annals of Operations Research seeks submissions for a special volume on Operations Research in Forestry. The deadline for submission is September 1, 2011

Objectives:

This special volume of Annals of Operations Research is intended to collect in one volume high quality papers on the use of Operations Research in Forestry. It is expected that many of these papers will have been presented at the 14th Symposium for Systems Analysis in Forest Resources, SSAFR 2011, held in Marbella, Chile, March 7-11, 2011.Other contributions falling in the topics of this volume are also welcome.

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The Complex Engineering Systems Institute (ISCI) and the Universidad de Chile, would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the 14th Symposium for Systems Analysis in Forest Resources, SSAFR, that will be held from March 8th, 2011 until March 11th, 2011 at the Conference Town Center Reñaca, Chile.

Important dates & General information

• Abstract submission: September 30th, 2010
• Abstract length: 500 words
• Acceptance date: October 30th, 2010
• Early Registration: January 31th, 2011
• Symposium: March 8‐11, 2011
• Venue: Conference Town Center, Reñaca, Viña del Mar, Chile
• Abstract submission: ssafr [Email address: ssafr #AT# sistemasdeingenieria.cl - replace #AT# with @ ]
• Website: www.ssafr2011.cl

The editor of the book “Decision Support Systems in Agriculture, Food and the Environment: Trends, Applications and Advances” (http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=509, http://algor.uom.gr/DSS_book/) has send the call for chapter proposals to be circulated among the ORAFM group members.

For further information contact Jason Papathanasiou (jasonp [Email address: jasonp #AT# gen.auth.gr - replace #AT# with @ ]) at University of Macedonia, Department of Marketing and Operations Management in Greece.

A summer school about OR in Agriculture and Forest Management will be held in Lleida, Spain, July 25th - August 8th 2009

Aims and Scope

Spanning the bridge between optimization theory and primary sector applications (mainly Agriculture and Forestry, but also Fisheries and Natural Resources in general) is one of the big challenges for the operations research community. Stochastic optimization and modern software implementations have become an indispensable resource in engineering sciences and economics. This high demand in interdisciplinary collaboration is, however, not adequately covered in most of the current curricula programs in applied mathematics or (agronomic/forest) engineering.

Aim of this EURO Summer Institute is to bring together young scientists with academic experts on OR methods besides the development of applications for Agriculture, Forestry and related industries of the primary sector. Read the rest of this entry »

Journal: OR Spectrum, Submission Deadline: 31 December 2008

Consumers require high quality, safe, healthy and convenient food. Focus shifts to fresh as well as more value-added ready-to-eat products. As a result, the product variety has increased significantly. The food sector shows a number of distinct features such as the susceptibility of agricultural production to environmental impact factors such as the climate, an often rapidly declining quality of the products, production processes which show both continuous and batch characteristics, the generation of by-products and severe food safety and sustainability requirements.
In close cooperation with engineering and the natural sciences, Operations Research can contribute substantially to the decision making for numerous specific problems arising in the food sector. It may also support the current industry efforts of a farm-to-fork integration in food supply chains. The primary objective of this special issue is to reflect the recent developments made in this respect and to examine research issues concerned with the analysis and decision support at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels. Read the rest of this entry »