The XVIII CLAIO, Latin-Iberian-American Conference on Operations Research, will take place in Santiago de Chile, October 2-6, 2016. We invite members of the Latin-Iberian-American Association of Operations Research (ALIO) and the worldwide Operational Research (OR) community to participate in this event and to submit contributions. We are assembling and exiting scientific program consisting of parallel, technical, plenary talks and tutorials, covering several aspects of OR.
CLAIO 2016 will also host the IX meeting of the Iberian-American Network on Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (Red-M). Special tracks will be organized within CLAIO and will be open to all attendants.
IMPORTANT DATES 15/March/2016 Paper and abstract submission deadline.
01/Jun/2016 Acceptance/rejection notification.
1/July/2016 Final versions of papers deadline.
15/Jul/2016 Early registration deadline.
30/Aug/2016 Cut-out date for registration, to be included in the schedule.
ABSTRACT / PAPER SUBMISSION To participate in the conference, an abstract of a maximum 1000 characters or a 8-page paper must be submitted. All submissions will go through a review process by the Scientific Committee.
Papers and abstracts may be written in Spanish, English, or Portuguese, the three official languages of
CLAIO. All abstracts of accepted contributions will be published in the conference book of abstracts and accepted papers of registered authors will be published in the conference proceedings, in electronic media, with an ISBN.
Detailed instructions are available in the conference web page, www.claio2016.cl
A post conference special issue of Annals of Operations Research will be edited, including the best research presented at the conference. Further instructions will be available soon.
PLENARY AND TUTORIAL SPEAKERS
So far, we have confirmed the following plenary/tutorial speakers:
Jorge Nocedal, Northwestern University
John Bartholdi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Andrés Weintraub, Universidad de Chile
Shmuel Oren, UC Berkeley
Roberto Cominetti, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez
COMMITTEES
Conference Chair:
Jorge Vera, (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Scientific Committee:
Chair, Sergio Maturana (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Renzo Akkerman (Technische Universität München, Alemania)
Paula Amaral (U. Nueva de Lisboa, Portugal)
John Bartholdi (Gergia Tech, USA)
Luciana Buriol (U. Fed. Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil)
Jaime Bustos (U. de la Frontera, Chile)
Jaime Camelio (Virginia Tech, USA)
Hector Cancela (U. de la República, Uruguay)
Jose Correa (U. de Chile)
Gonzalo Cortázar (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Susan Cholette (S. Francisco State U., USA)
Guillermo Duran (U. de Chile(U. de Buenos Aires)
Rodrigo Garrido (U. Diego Portales, Chile)
Michel Gendreau (Polytechnique Montréal, Canadá)
Marcela Gonzalez (U. de Talca, Chile)
Marcos Goycoolea (U. Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile)
Irene Loiseau (U. de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Nelson Maculan (U. Federal Rio do Janeiro, Brasil)
Vladimir Marianov (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
David Mauricio (U. Mayor Nac. De San Marcos, Perú)
Juan Carlos Muñoz (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Fernando Paredes (U. Diego Portales, Chile, RED-M)
Javier Pereira (Tec. de Monterrey, México, RED-M)
Lluis Pla (U. de Lleida, España)
Celso Ribeiro (U. Federal Fluminense, Brasil)
Roger Rios (U. Autónoma de Nueva León, México)
Ernesto Santibañez (U. Federal Ouro Preto, Brasil)
Luis Torres (Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador)
Maria Urquhart (U. de la República, Uruguay)
René Villalobos (Arizona State U., USA)
Andres Weintraub (U. de Chile)
Organizing Committee:
Chair, Alejandro MacCawley (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Víctor Albornoz (U. Santa María, Chile)
Gustavo Angulo (U. Católica de Chile)
Rodrigo Carrasco (U. Adolfo Ibáñez Chile)
Iván Derpich (U. de Santiago de Chile, Chile)
Gustavo Gatica (U. Nac. Andrés Bello, Chile)
Ricardo Giesen (U. Católica de Chile)
Rosa González (U. de los Andes, Chile)
Jaime Miranda (U. de Chile)
Cecilia Montt (U. Católica de Valparaíso, Chile)
Lorena Pradenas (U. de Concepción, Chile)
Marcos Singer (U. Católica de Chile)
José Verschae (U. Católica de Chile)
Richard Weber (U. de Chile)
Updated instructions and information will be posted in the following announcements and through the conference web page.
We look forward to see all of you in Santiago!
Jorge R. Vera, Chair, CLAIO 2016.