Call for Papers
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15th Mini-EURO
Conference
Theme: "Managing Uncertainty in Decision Support Models (MUDSM
2004)"
Where: Coimbra - Portugal
When: 22-24 September
2004
Formatting instructions for paper submissions are available at the
Web page
www.inescc.pt/mudsm2004
Sponsoring
institutions: EURO (The Association of European Operational
Research
Societies), APDIO (Portuguese OR Society), Faculty of Economics at
the
University of Coimbra, INESC Coimbra
Scope and objectives
Mini EURO
Conferences are conferences allowing specialists of a particular
promising OR
theme of research to participate in a meeting where the
screening of papers
can be more effective and participation in the debates
can be more lively
than at larger meetings.
The 15th Mini EURO Conference is aimed at providing
an open forum in which
researchers coming from different scientific
disciplines and operational
research areas can discuss and share their
experience regarding
methodological approaches to tackle, in an explicit
manner, uncertainty and
imprecision stemming from distinct sources, which
have influence on
obtaining robust conclusions in decision support models
with application to
several areas.
Particular attention will be paid to
multicriteria evaluation models in
which distinct types of difficulties are
associated with achieving robust
conclusions: the intrinsic incomplete nature
of models, the imprecision
associated with input data, and the uncertainty
associated with the
analytical representation of the structure of the
decision maker's
preferences.
Contributions from decision theory, fuzzy
sets, rough sets, risk analysis,
stochastic programming, sensitivity
analysis, robustness analysis, interval
programming, inexact programming,
etc. are expected both from methodological
and application perspectives, thus
paving the way for a cross-fertilization
between distinct ways to incorporate
uncertainty, imprecision and risk in
decision support
models.
Organizing Committee
Luís Cândido Dias (Chair)
Carlos
Henggeler Antunes, Maria João Alves, Ana Rosa Borges.
International
Program Committee
Carlos H. Antunes (Chair, Portugal)
Alexis Tsoukiàs
(France), Andreas Saltelli (Italy), Bernard Roy (France),
Carlos Bana e Costa
(Portugal), Constantin Zopounidis (Greece), Danae
Diakoulaki (Greece), David
Rios-Insua (Spain), Denis Bouyssou (France),
Efraim Turban (HK), Jacinto
Gonzalez-Pachon (Spain), Jacques Teghem
(Belgium), Jean-Marc Martel (Canada),
Jean-Pierre Brans (Belgium), João
Clímaco (Portugal), João Paulo Costa
(Portugal), José Figueira (Portugal),
Kaisa Miettinen (Finland), Luís C. Dias
(Portugal), Manuel Matos (Portugal),
Maria João Alves (Portugal), Mashahiro
Inuiguchi (Japan), Pascale Zaraté
(France), Philippe Vincke (Belgium),
Rudolph Vetschera (Austria), Raimo
Hamalainen (Finland), Richard Wendell
(USA), Rita Almeida Ribeiro
(Portugal), Roman Slowinski (Poland), Ronald R.
Yager (USA), Salvatore
Grecco (Italy), Simon French (UK), Theodor Stewart
(South Africa), Tomas Gal
(Germany), Valerie Belton
(UK)
Submissions
Three kinds of submissions are welcome:
· Proposal
for a session of three papers dedicated to a given topic. After
acceptance,
the promoter will be responsible for his/her session and will
chair it.
·
Proposal for a panel discussion on a given topic. After acceptance,
the
promoter will be responsible for his/her session and will chair it.
·
Free submission of short papers (4-6 pages). The accepted papers will
be
published as conference proceedings.
The official language of the
conference is English.
Publication
We are pleased to announce that
special issues of two leading journals - the European Journal of Operational
Research and Decision Support Systems journal - will publish selected papers
presented at the conference.
Authors present
at
MUDSM 2004 will be invited to submit full versions of their papers to
be
published on a Special Issue of EJOR or a Special Issue of DSS on the
theme
of the conference.
Venue
The conference will be hosted by the
Faculty of Economics, University of
Coimbra. Dating from 1290, the U. Coimbra
is one of the oldest in Europe and
the oldest in Portugal. It now comprises
eight faculties, including the
Faculty of Economics, which was established in
1972.
Coimbra is located in the centre region of Portugal, easily accessible
by
car, bus or train from Lisbon (200 Km) or Oporto (130 Km)
international
airports.
Registration fee
Type of registration /
Until June 23, 2004 / After June 23,
2004
Normal(1)
/
240 Euro
/ 300
Euro
Student(2)
/ 120
Euro
/ 150 Euro
(1) Includes conference
Proceedings and documentation, lunches, coffee
breaks, social program, and
taxes (VAT).
(2) Includes all of the above, except the banquet comprised in
the social
program. To qualify as a student, the delegate must present a
student card.
Support from EURO may be granted to seven delegates from
Eastern European
countries (300-600 Euro each).
Important
dates
March 31, 2004: Submission of short papers (4-6 pages)
June 1, 2004:
Notification of acceptance
June 23, 2004: Early registration deadline
June
30, 2004: Revised short paper due
July 25, 2004: Registration deadline
(to
guarantee inclusion in the final program and proceedings volume)
October
2004: Submission of full papers to special issue of EJOR or DSS
journals