Dear Colleagues,

The program committee has decided to extend the deadline for submission to the EURO/INFORMS conference up to March 15, 2013. Please take this opportunity to reactivate your own mailing lists and contacts to attract new people and complete your sessions and streams.

We would like to draw your attention to the stream “OR in Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries” where the following sessions can still accept contributions:

* a641197d for papers realted with OR in Agriculture
* a8a9b572 for papers realted with OR in Forestry
* 4acd0284 for papers realted with OR in Fisheries

If you wish to contribute, you still have time and you may enter in the system on the page “Abstract Submission ” and use the session code for assigning your abstract to one of the sessions above.

/*About the conference */
Deadline early registration (and inclusion in the program): April 15, 2013.

The Registration opens on June 30 (Sunday), 4 pm with Welcome Reception from 6 pm to 10 pm in the Campus of Sapienza.

The Conference starts July 1 (Monday) with the Opening Session in the Aula Magna and proceeds with the working sessions up to Thursday morning.

In the evening of July 2 (Tuesday) there will be a social event: Night @Sapienza. The Conference Gala Dinner will be held in the evening of July 3 (Wednesday).

In the late morning of July 4, the Conference ends with the Closing Session in the Aula Magna.

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Dear colleagues, I am inviting you to send contributions for this book on deforestation entitled “Deforestation: Conservation Policies, Economic Implications and Environmental Impact”.

Mathematical modeling & applications are welcome…. Some other issues may be considered

Best regards,

Carlos Bouza

PS more information contact me at: bouza [Email address: bouza #AT# matcom.uh.cu - replace #AT# with @ ]

April 24-26, 2013, Umeå, Sweden

FORSYS 2013 is the final event of the FORSYS COST Action. FORSYS has brought together developers and users of forest DSSs from more than 30 countries. The 2013 international conference should gather expertise from different areas related to forest DSS to form a comprehensive picture of problems and opportunities. The following main areas will be covered:

Themes
· DSS serving different clients (forest policy, participation and multiple objectives, family and company forestry)
· Specific ecosystem services and the role of DSS: (timber and non-timber goods , regulatory services, cultural services)
· Generic methods for DSS (ontology, optimization, risk assessment)

Key notes

· Jose Borges: AssociateProfessor, Department of Forest Engineering of Instituto Superior deAgronomia of the Technical University ofLisbon

· KatharinaHelming: Dr. sc. agr., Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)

· Florian Kraxner: Deputy Program Leader of Ecosystems Services and Management Program,IIASA

· Laurent Mermet: Professor of Environmental Management, AgroParisTech

· Mikael Rönnqvist, professor at Université Laval, Canada Research Chair in “Operations Research in Natural Resources”

· Sandor F. Tóth: Associate Professor of Natural Resource Informatics, University of Washington

Draft program on http://www-conference.slu.se/forsys2013/program.html

Abstracts
We have a full program of presentations but would still able to accommodate a few more. Thus:
Additional Abstracts are Welcome until Friday March 10th for notification in due time for early bird registration.
For instructions, see http://www-conference.slu.se/forsys2013/abstracts.html

Contacts
See http://www-conference.slu.se/forsys2013/contacts.html.

More information: http://www-conference.slu.se/forsys2013/