International Federation  of Operational Research Societies

Dear IFORS National Representative,
 
As you know the 15th triennial IFORS World Conference on Operational Research is to take place in Beijing, August 16-20, 1999. Program planning is already well under way, with some 20 or more people around the world having agreed to arrange sessions or streams of invited papers on a variety of topics, including both theory and applications of OR, and both traditional and newer OR themes. Tutorial sessions and applications of OR have been promised. A great program is thus shaping up.

The formal call for papers is just published. As a member of IFORS, your society is entitled to nominate a national contribution, i.e. a paper selected by your society to be presented by one of your members, and representing OR activities in your country. National contributions will specifically be flagged as such in the conference program. The selection is entirely up to your society. Note that papers must be in English. If authors wish so, national contributions will be considered for publication in the special volumes of the journal International Transactions of Operational Research  devoted to the proceedings of the 1999 conference. The papers will be subject to the normal refereeing procedures adopted by the journal. The full text is required by May 31, 1999. Prof. Theo Stewart will serve as guest Editor of the special volumes.
 
Although 1999 may still seem quite far away, there is a need to begin thinking soon about the selection of your national contribution. The most important deadline which needs to be observed at this time is that titles, author's names, and abstracts of not more than 100 words for each national contribution have to be received not later than September 30, 1998.

Looking forward to hearing from you,
Yours sincerely,
 
Paolo Toth
Chairman of  IFORS'99 Program Committee
 
 
 
Titles, author's names, abstracts of not more than 100 words, and if possible draft papers for the Swiss national contribution have to be sent to the SVOR /ASRO office, Grossmattstrasse 38, 4133 Pratteln, not later than April 30, 1998.
 
For further information, please contact Marino Widmer marino.widmer@unifr.ch.