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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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This year the MODSIM conference is titled “SUSTAINING OUR FUTURE:
understanding and living with uncertainty”. Lluis and myself proposed
a session dealing with Agriculture Sustainability in a Changing
Climate (http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim2011/session_gc.html), and we
would like to encourage you to submit related work to the conference.

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Please be reminded that the early registration deadline is 30th April, 2011.
For registration and further information about the Conference, please visit the
conference webpage: http://www.ifors2011.org

During the “4th International Conference of Iranian Operations Research society, University of Guilan , Iran,May 18-19, 2011″, Dr. Soleiman Mohammadi Limaei would like to organize a stream on:

 Operations Research in Natural Resources and Agriculture

Dr. Soleiman Mohammadi Limaei would like to invite all of the ORAFM working group to participate in the proposed session and are looking forward receiving your conference papers.

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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

Kind regards,

Manfred Gronalt

Patrick Hirsch

24TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
Lisbon, Portugal, July 11-14, 2010

WELCOME TO EURO XXIV
www.euro2010lisbon.org

CALL FOR PAPERS STREAM “OR in Agriculture and Forest Management”:
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We invite all members our group to participate in the conference and to
present their papers. Invited papers will be organized in parallel sessions,
with three or four papers in each session. Sessions will be part of
our conference stream. Please, make use of the code: 23ee720f

Researchers who want to organize an invited session within our stream
should contact Lluis M. Plà with their proposals.

Abstracts: max. 600 characters; submission deadline: Feb 28, 2010

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CALL FOR PAPERS AND INVITED SESSIONS
ALIO/INFORMS Joint International Meeting
June 6-9, 2010
Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
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We invite members of ALIO, INFORMS and the worldwide OR/MS community to
the ALIO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting that will be held in Buenos
Aires in June 2010. This joint conference consists of the INFORMS
International Conference and XV CLAIO, the biannual conference organized
by ALIO.

More information about ALIO/INFORMS 2010 at
http://meetings.informs.org/BuenosAires2010/

Dear member of the ORAFM working group,

on behalf of Manfred Gronalt I send you a job offer for a professorship in “Economics of Multifunctional Forest Management Systems” at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna.

Details can be found at:

http://www.boku.ac.at/pwl/Professorship%20-%20Forest%20Managment%20(BOKU%20Vienna,%202009).pdf

Best regards,

Patrick Hirsch

Our colleague Andrew Higgins has sent this information:

On behalf of Australian Society for Operations Research (ASOR), I am pleased to invite members and non-members to the ASOR 20th National Conference incorporating the 5th International Intelligent Logistics Systems Conference.  Detail information about the conference can be found at the conference homepage http://www.asor.org.au/conf2009/