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The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) is an umbrella organization comprising the national Operations Research societies of over forty five countries from four geogr aphical regions: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America, South America

Total membership is over 30,000 persons. IFORS' mission is to promote Operations Research as an academic discipline and a profession.


19th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies


10th  15th July, 2011 Melbourne, Australia
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Final Call for Papers – 12th ICSP, Halifax, Canada, August 16-20, 2010

Posted by iforsadmin | Posted on 25-06-2010

The 12th International Conference on Stochastic Programming. All abstracts for this conference must be submitted no later than June 30th, 2010.

14th Symposium for Systems Analysis in Forest Resources (14th SSAFR) – CALL FOR PAPERS 8 to 11 March, 2011 – Reñaca, Chile

Posted by iforsadmin | Posted on 16-06-2010

The Complex Engineering Systems Institute (ISCI) and the Universidad de Chile, would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the 14th Symposium for Systems Analysis in Forest Resources, SSAFR…

2nd call for paper – 41st Annual Conference Italian Operational Research Society

Posted by iforsadmin | Posted on 03-05-2010

AIRO2010, the 41st Annual Conference of Italian Operational Research Society, will be held on September 7-10, 2010, at the Altafiumara Resort & Spa…

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Deadline for the INFORMS Data Mining Contest: October 10, 2010

Posted by iforsadmin | Posted on 25-08-2010

INFORMS Data Mining Competition aims to predict stock price movements (over 60 minutes) at five minute intervals with accurate predictive analysis solutions.

THE 6TH OPERATIONS RESEARCH SOCIETY OF EASTERN AFRICA (ORSEA) CONFERENCE

Posted by iforsadmin | Posted on 17-07-2010

October 14-15, 2010
Venue: Munyonyo Common Wealth Resort, Kampala

7th ALIO-EURO Workshop on Applied Combinatorial Optimization Porto, Portugal, May 4 – 6, 2011

Posted by iforsadmin | Posted on 30-06-2010

The main purpose of the ALIO/EURO Conferences of Combinatorial Optimization is to bring together Latin American and European researchers and to stimulate activities and discussions about methods and applications in the field of combinatorial optimization.

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Organizing OR Societies: Obstacles and Enablers

Posted by iforsadmin | Posted on 23-07-2010

Like all professionals, OR workers gain a lot from membership in a grouping where they can share their knowledge and benefit from the experiences and expertise of others. This is the reason why national Operations Research communities play a very important role in ensuring the continued health and development of the discipline within a geographical [...]

IFORS was featured in several issues of the the Operations Research Society of Japan monthly journal, Communications of Operations Research

Posted by iforsadmin | Posted on 04-02-2010

Our Japanese members are invited to read the articles…

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The IFORS June 2010 Newsletter is now available for download

Posted by iforsadmin | Posted on 12-07-2010

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The IFORS March 2010 Newsletter is Available for Free Download

Posted by iforsadmin | Posted on 03-05-2010

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XV ELAVIO (Escuela Latina Americana de Verano en Investigación Operativa)

Posted by iforsadmin | Posted on 26-03-2010

The XV ELAVIO will be in August from 2nd to 6th, 2010 on Luis Pimenta Cine Theater, at Pacoti/CE county (Guaramiranga Sierra). The event is being organized by State University of Ceara (Professional Master in Applied Computing UECE-IFECT/CE, UECE Academic Master in Computer Science), Federal University of Ceara (Statistics and Applied Mathematics Department), Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Production Department), and Federal University of Alagoas (Master in Computational Knowledge Modeling).

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