APMOD 2008 - About the Conference
The conference will take place May 27-31, 2008 in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. The main conference track will take place May 28-30, which will be preceeded by a half-day afternoon software workshop as well as a full-day Young Scientist Meeting on May 27. The conference dinner is taking place on May 29 evening. An excursion to the countryside is planned for May 31.
APMOD Conference Series
APMOD (APplied mathematical programming and MODelling) is a series of conferences, which started 1991 due to an initiative of Gautam Mitra at Brunel University/West London. It was followed by Budapest (1993), Brunel (1995), Limassol/Cyprus (1998), Brunel (2000), Varenna/Italy (2002), Brunel (2004), Madrid (2006).
The 2008 conference will be organized by the University of Vienna, the venue is the Comenius University Bratislava.
Scope
The conference is focused on theory and applications of operational research in general and mathematical programming in particular. The research and developments discussed will cover solution algorithms and modelling applications. Algorithms cover linear, integer, quadratic, convex, stochastic and combinatorial optimization. The modelling applications are taken from a variety of areas: finance, insurance, energy, transportation and communication, health, supply chain and the utility sector among them. In addition to these areas, contributions on more general topics in operational research are welcome.
Venue
Bratislava (population 0.5 Mill) is at 60 km distance from Vienna (population 1.8 Mill). The Vienna airport is in the middle between the two cities (20 km from Vienna, 40 km from Bratislava). Bratislava and Vienna are called the twin cities (Wienislava). There are actually 90 trains per day between the two capitals (travel time less than 1 hour).