International Workshop on Interdisciplinary Decision Making December 6-7, 2004 Melbourne, Australia

Key Note Speaker
 
Robert Bixby
Research Professor, Rice University
Chief Science Officer, ILOG

This workshop is organized by the Melbourne Chapter of the Australian Society for Operations Research (ASOR) and will be held on the campus of the University of Melbourne.

The workshop is intended to provide a meeting forum for OR/MS oriented delegates of other important conferences to be held in Australia in Dec 2004 (and in New Zealand in November!):

• November 28 -29, 2004, Annual ORSNZ Conference
  Auckland, New Zealand
  www.orsnz.org.nz/conf
• December 6-8, 2004, International Conference on Mathematical Inequalities and their Applications, I
  Melbourne, Australia
  rgmia.vu.edu.au/conference
• December 9-11, 2004, The Sixth International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications (ICOTA 6)
  Ballarat (120 km from Melbourne), Australia
  www.ballarat.edu.au/icota/
• December 12-14, 2004, Second Australian-China workshop on Optimization
  Ballarat (120km from Melbourne), Australia
  (website not ready yet)
• December 12-15, 2004,Fifth Asia-Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Conference (APIEMS 2004)
  Gold Coast, Australia
  www.maths.qut.edu.au/apiems2004
• December 12-15, 2004, World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling
  Melbourne, Australia
  www.ma.rmit.edu.au/2004RMAconference/
• December 13-14, 2004, The First International Workshop on Intelligent Finance (IWIF 1)
  Melbourne, Australia
  www.iwif.org
• December 13-17, 2004, Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 04)
  Melbourne, Australia
  www.issnip.org

Every effort will be made to coordinate the activities of the workshop with the programs of these conferences.

The plan is to allow delegates plenty of time and opportunities for informal discussions and professional networking. Thus, the technical program of the workshop will consist solely of invited plenary lectures, each followed by a panel discussion.

This forum will enable you to meet OR/MS analysts from Australia and the Asia Pacific region, and to obtain first-hand information on OR/MS activities in this part of the world. Indeed, one of the main objectives of this workshop is to strengthen the ties between OR/MS professionals in the Asia Pacific region.

Given the interdisciplinary nature of OR/MS and its strong links to other fields such as applied mathematics, computer science, and engineering, this workshop should be of interest also to delegates of the above mentioned conferences who are not fully-fledged OR/MS professionals.

Needless to say, although the workshop was designed specifically with delegates of these conferences in mind, registration to the workshop is open to the public. That is, you do not have to participate in any of these conferences in order to register to the workshop.

The On-Line Registration Form is operational now! If you plan to register later on, please submit an Expression of Interest Form now!

Some basic facts about the Workshop:

• This workshop is a low-cost event. Thus, the registration fee is low and in addition to regular hotels in the proximity of the conference venue, inexpensive accommodation options are available (supply might be limited though).
• The campus of the University of Melbourne is located right next to the famous Lygon Street and within a short (10 minutes) tram ride to city center.
• Melbourne was recently voted, again, the most liveable city in the world!

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