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PROGRAM (Last updated April 5, 2002) The Program Committee is pleased to welcome all the participants of IFORS 2002. "OR in a globalised, networked world economy", the theme of the Conference, provides us with the opportunity to demonstrate the capabilities of OR to solve global problems in the new networked world economy. We can play a major role in identifying and solving economic, financial, logistic, health, and other problems. OR is well and alive in the third millennium. Ben Lev, Chairman of the Program Committee blev@umich.edu * LANGUAGE
THEME OF THE CONFERENCE "OR in a globalised, networked world economy" The exponential growth of the electronic commerce, the electronic communication and networked world economy, gives OR an opportunity to prove itself once more. As we approach the 50th anniversary of IFORS we realize that OR is well and alive. We can formulate and solve global larger problems with old and new methodologies. The enormous amount of data available to the decision maker makes it a challenge to select the appropriate and relevant data. OR addresses issues in engineering, social, economical and other disciplines. TUTORIAL SESSIONS In addition to the traditional opening plenary session, prominent researchers and practitioners will be invited to present a series of semi-plenary/tutorial lectures mainly devoted to research and state-of-the-art reviews. Particular attention will be given to new topics in OR. For a current list of semi-plenary/tutorial click here |