The Organizing Committee is pleased to invite you to participate in the 4-annual Conference on Operations Research, jointly organized by SVOR, GOR, ÖGOR and SIGOPT. It is a special honour for us to host the recently founded society GOR (German Operations Research) for their first annual meeting.

The 11 topics in the sections have been designed accordingly, and with renowned experts leading the plenary and semi-plenary sessions we are convinced that the OR98 conference will be of mutual benefit to both the academic world and OR-professionals in industry.

We would also like to invite you to Zurich, a city that is worth a trip for its own sake, as it offers such a rich choice of cultural, sightseeing and shopping opportunities.

Prof. H.-J. Lüthi, Chairman OR98

Conference Information
 

Chairman Conference	Prof. H.-J. Lüthi
Chairman Program Committee	Prof. P. Kall
Honorary Member	Prof. H.P. Künzi
Members Local Organizing Committee	P. Stähly, C.A. Zehnder,  J. Mayer, I. Drack, V. Rosta Fukuda (Exhibition organizer)
Members Program Committee	W. Domschke, K. Frauendorfer, H. Garbers, H. Gröflin, A. Haurie, A. Hertz, D. Klatte, P. Kleinschmidt, J. Kohlas, U. Leopold-Wildburger,Th. Liebling, H.-J. Lüthi, J. Mayer, U. Rieder, P. Stähly, J.-P. Vial

 
Plenary Speakers:
 

Prof. F. Delbaen, ETH Zurich	Duality Theory and Superhedging in Mathematical Finance
Prof. M. Groetschel, Berlin	Combinatorial Online Optimization
Prof. F. Jensen, Aalborg	Bayesian Networks and Influence Diagrams
Prof. Th. L. Magnanti, MIT	Operations Research and the Virtual Campus: Teaching in the Brave New World of Distant Education
Prof. F. J. Radermacher, Ulm	Herausforderungen an und Beiträge des Operations Research beim Übergang in das 21. Jahrhundert

 
Semi-plenary sessions

The following scientists have been invited by the section chairs to give 1-hour state-of-the-art lectures:
 

Section 1A: Continuous Optimization Prof. A. Haurie, University of Geneva	Chairs: Feichtinger, Horst, Vial Recent Trends in Differential Game Modeling of Oligopolistic Competition
Section 1B: Discrete Optimization Prof. W. Pulleyblank, IBM Research, Canada	Chairs: Burkard, Hertz, Reinelt Applications of Discrete Optimization in Finance
Section 2: Stochastic Modelling, Optimization and Simulation Prof. D. Yao, Columbia University, New York	Chairs: Rieder, Stadlober Stochastic Scheduling and Polymatroid Optimization
Section 3: Econometrics and Statistics Prof. J. Franke, Universität Kaiserslautern	Chairs: Deistler, Garbers, Schmitz Nonlinear Methods for Analyzing Financial Time Series
Section 4: Mathematical Economics, Game Theory and Decision Theory Prof. P. Hammerstein, Humbolt-Universität, Berlin	Chairs: Brachinger, Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger Evolutionary Game Theory and the Design of Life
Section 5: Banking and Finance Prof. R. Gibson, Universität Lausanne	Chairs: Bühler, Frauendorfer, Zechner Recent Trends in Contingent Claims Analysis
Section 6: Operations and Production Management Prof. E. Pesch, Universität Bonn	Chairs: Günther, Jammernegg, Tempelmeier Recent Developments in Scheduling
Section 7: Energy and Ecology Prof. Y. Smeers, CORE University of Louvain-la-Neuve	Chairs: Haurie, Kalliauer Bidding for Emission and Transmission Rights in an Imperfectly Competitive Power Market
Section 8: Telecommunication Prof. J. A. Audestad, Corporate Strategy & International Affairs, Oslo	Chairs: Martine Labbé, Mechthild Stoer Challenges in a Liberalized Telecommunications Market
Section 9: Logistics and Transportation Dr. L. Kroon, Netherlands Railways, Utrecht	Chairs: Domschke, Fleischmann, Stähly OR Applications in the Railway World
Section 10: Fuzzy Systems and Neural Networks Prof. H.-J. Zimmermann, RWTH, Aachen	Chairs: Rommelfanger, Brigitte Werners Von der Fuzzy Set Theorie zur Computational Intelligence

 
General information
 

Date	Monday, 31 August - Thursday, 3 September 12.00h
Contact Addresses	Secretariat OR98 Institute for Operations Research ETH Zentrum, CLP CH-8092 Zurich Internet: http://www.or98.ethz.ch e-mail: or98@ifor.math.ethz.ch Fax : +41-1-632-1025 Phone : +41-1-632-6005 or 4016
Venue	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) ETH Main Building Rämistrasse 101, Zurich (a map/plan will be included with your letter of confirmation)
Hotel accommodation	By Zurich Tourismus, Postfach, CH-8023 Zürich for information and reservations: http://www.zurichtourism.ch Fax: +41-1-215 40 80 / Phone: +41-1-215 40 40 (Please book before 31 July using the reference: OR98)
On site registration	ETH Main Building, Rämistrasse 101 Sunday, 30 August 16.00 - 19.00 h Monday, 31 August 08.00h