CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND POSTERS
The Fourth INFORMS Optimization Society Conference“Optimization and Analytics: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice”
Hosted by the University of Miami School of Business Administration
February 24-26, 2012
Coral Gables, Florida
The INFORMS Optimization Society solicits abstracts and posters for its fourth conference, whose broad theme is “Optimization and Analytics: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice”. The meeting will be held on the University of Miami campus in beautiful Coral Gables, Florida, a suburb of metropolitan Miami. Coral Gables was one of the first planned communities in the United States and features a wide range of shops and restaurants. A center of economic and recreational activity, Coral Gables is only minutes away from Miami International Airport, with easy access to the Seaport, South Beach and Coconut Grove (which are well known for their restaurants and vibrant night life), as well as attractions such as the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, the Vizcaya Museum, the Venetian Pool, and the Biltmore Hotel and golf course.
The conference organizers invite you to submit theoretical and applied work that highlights the conference theme. Work that focuses on new or novel applications in the interface of multiple disciplines is especially welcome. Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to) descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive Analytics; optimization theory, practice, and software; the use/combination of optimization and analytics in/with related fields such as probability and statistics, computer science, constraint programming, engineering, artificial intelligence, as well as natural and social sciences.
CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS:Jerald Ault, Professor of Marine Biology and Fisheries
Rosentiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
Dimitris Bertsimas, Professor of Operations Research
Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Manoj Saxena, General Manager, Watson Solutions
IBM Corporation
David Alderson, Assistant Professor
Operations Research Department, Naval Postgraduate School
Suvrajeet Sen, Professor
Integrated Systems Engineering Department, The Ohio State University
SUBMISSIONS:
There are three categories of submissions: (1) invited abstracts, (2) contributed abstracts, and (3) posters. Abstracts are restricted to 300 characters. Contributed abstracts and posters will be accepted based on quality, suitability to the conference, and space availability. Abstract submission is available through the conference web site http://bus.miami.edu/ios and follows a format that is similar to the format used for the INFORMS annual meetings. Authors submitting a poster should enter an abstract into the submission system and explicitly indicate that they want to be considered for the poster sessions. If space and time constraints prevent a paper from being included in a formal session, the submitting author(s) may be given the option of presenting their work in one of the poster sessions.
IMPORTANT DATES:| Early registration deadline: | December 15, 2011 |
| Invited Abstracts: | |
| Submission deadline | January 6, 2012 |
| Contributed Abstracts and Posters: | |
| Submission deadline | January 6, 2012 |
| Notification of acceptance | January 13, 2012 |
| Conference program published online: | January 27, 2012 |
| IOS Conference: | February 24-26, 2012 |
CONFERENCE DETAILS:
For conference information visit http://bus.miami.edu/ios. You are also welcome to e-mail the organizing committee with questions.
Conference Chairs:
Anuj Mehrotra, University of Miami, anuj@miami.edu
Michael Trick, Carnegie Mellon University, trick@cmu.edu
Organizing Committee:
Edward Baker, University of Miami, ebaker@miami.edu
Hari Natarajan, University of Miami, hari@miami.edu
Tallys Yunes, University of Miami, tallys@miami.edu
Advisory Committee:
Anant Balakrishnan, University of Texas at Austin
John Birge, University of Chicago
Gerard Cornuejols, Carnegie Mellon University
Brenda Dietrich, IBM
Peter Glynn, Stanford University
Bruce Golden, University of Maryland
John Hooker, Carnegie Mellon University
Ellis Johnson, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jon Lee, University of Michigan
Sanjay Mehrotra, Northwestern University
George Nemhauser, Georgia Institute of Technology
Panos Pardalos, University of Florida
R. Ravi, Carnegie Mellon University
Nick Sahinidis, Carnegie Mellon University
Suvrajeet Sen, The Ohio State University
Program Committee:
Shabbir Ahmed, Georgia Institute of Technology
Miguel Anjos, École Polytechnique de Montréal
Alper Atamturk, University of California, Berkeley
Frank Curtis, Lehigh University
Milind Dawande, University of Texas at Dallas
Robert Fourer, Northwestern University
Joseph Geunes, University of Florida
Oktay Gunluk, IBM
Jeff Linderoth, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Anuj Mehrotra, University of Miami
Hari Natarajan, University of Miami
Oleg Prokopyev, University of Pittsburgh
Subramanian Raghavan, University of Maryland
Ted Ralphs, Lehigh University
Mauricio Resende, AT&T Labs
Edwin Romeijn, University of Michigan
Matthew Saltzman, Clemson University
Chung-Piaw Teo, National University of Singapore
Huseyin Topaloglu, Cornell University
Michael Trick, Carnegie Mellon University
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Brown University
Willem-Jan van Hoeve, Carnegie Mellon University
Tallys Yunes, University of Miami
Jiawei Zhang, New York University