Due to numerous requests to extend the paper submission deadline, the OR8 Conference Committee is pleased to announce that we will continue to accept paper submissions until March 16.

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The 8th International Conference of Iranian Operations Research Society

The 8th International conference of Iranian Operations Research Society will be held at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, in Mashhad, Iran, on May 21-22, 2015. The conference aims to provide a forum for students and members of OR community to present their recent research findings and share ideas on a wide range of OR related topics, which include but is not limited to the following:

· Linear and nonlinear programming

· Integer and combinatorial programming

· Non-smooth optimization

· Global optimization

· Multi-objective optimization

· Fuzzy optimization

· Stochastic programming

· Heuristic methods

· Application of mathematical programming

Important Dates:

Deadline for extended abstract submission: 16 March 2015

Notification of acceptance: 19 April 2015

Confirmed speakers:

Chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and

George N. and Soteria Kledaras ’87 Endowed Chair Professor

Lehigh University

Bethlehem, PA, USA

Professor Baoding Liu

Uncertainty Theory Laboratory

Department of Mathematical Sciences

Tsinghua University

Beijing, China

Uncertain multi-level programming

Professor P. Serafini 

Department of Mathematical Computer Science

University of Udine

Italy

Lp based extended formulations

Professor  Adil Bagirov 

 Faculty of Science and Technology

 Federation University 

Australia

 Numerical Methods for Nonsmooth Nonconvex Optimization and Applications

Professor Franco Giannessi 

 Department of Mathematics

 University of Pisa 

 Italy

To be Announced 

Perofessor N. Mahdavi-Amiri

Department of Mathematical Sciences

Sharif University of Technology

Iran