1. Welcome to EURO2015

2. Welcome to: 27th European Conference on Operational Research EURO 2015 David Pisinger, PC Chair

3. Theme of Conference
OR in Practice

4. Programme Committee David Pisinger, Denmark, Chair Claudia Archetti,
Italy
Gernot Tragler,
Austria
Sibel Alumur Alev,
Canada
Patrick De Causmaecker,
Belgium
Juan-José Salazar-González,
Tenerife

5. Programme Committee Anita Schöbel, Germany Marco Laumanns, Switzerland
Andrzej Jaszkiewicz,
Poland
Phil Jones, UK
Boglárka G.-Tóth,
Hungary
Ahti Salo,
Finland
Christina Pagel, UK

6. Programme Committee Tim Bedford, UK Val Belton, UK Marc Sevaux, France
Daniele Vigo, Italy
Sally Brailsford, UK
Willi Weber, Turkey

7. Organising Committee Tim Bedford, Co-Chair Val Belton, Co-Chair
Andy Harrison
Paul Harper
Gavin Blackett
Hilary Wilkes

8. Organising Committee Ruth Tom Kaufman Archibald Frances Sneddon Mark
Elder
Chris
Kirkbride
Susan Howick
Kerem
Akartunali
Rosmary
Byde
Sally Brailsford

9. Student Helpers

11. President of EURO Elena Fernández

12. Welcome to the 27th European Conference on Operational Research

13. Thanks: UK OR Society University of Strathclyde

14. Thanks: UK OR Society University of Strathclyde
Organising Committee Programme Committee

15. Thanks: UK OR Society University of Strathclyde
Organising Committee Programme Committee
Stream and session organisers Speakers Participants

16. David Pisinger (Programme Committee Chair)

17. Valerie Belton Tim Bedford (Organizing Committee Chair)

18. David Pisinger Programme Committee
Valerie Belton
Organizing Committee
Tim Bedford
Organizing Committee
David Pisinger Programme Committee

19. EURO: The Association of European Operational Research Societies

20. January 1975: first EURO Conference (Brussels)

21. EURO 40th anniversary  
EURO 40th anniversary  

22. In 40 years … 20 Executive Committees Many other persons served EURO
EURO 40th anniversary  

23. EURO Today  

24. 30 + 2 National OR Societies  
Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom
EURO Today  

25. to promote Operational Research mainly throughout Europe
Our mission  
to promote Operational Research mainly throughout Europe
EURO Today  

26. European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR)
Publications  
European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR)
EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics (EJTL) EURO Journal on Computational Optimization (EJCO) EURO Journal on Decision Processes (EJDP)
EURO Advanced Tutorials in Operational Research
E-Newsletter
EURO Today  

27. EURO Today 32 Working Groups
EWG MCDA, Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding
EWG ORAHS, OR Applied to Health Services
EWGLA, Locational Analysis
EWG Project Management and Scheduling
EWG Commodities and Financial Modelling - EWGCFM
EWG ECCO, European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization
EWG-DSS: EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems
EWG Transportation
EWG Group decision and negotiation support
EWG MODEST, Modelling of economies and societies in transition
EWG WATT Working group on automated timetabling
EWG EPA Efficiency and Productivity Analysis
EWG Methodology for complex societal problems
EWG EUROPT - The Continuous Optimization Working Group
EWG E-CUBE European Working Group on Experimental Economics
EWG EU/ME: the metaheuristics community
EWG on Ethics and OR
EWG ESICUP, EURO Special Interest Group on
Cutting and Packing
EWG OR in Agriculture and Forest Management
EWG ENOG, European Network Optimization Group
EWG on Stochastic Modelling
EWG OR for Development: EWG-ORD
EWG-CBBM The Operational Research in Computational Biology,
Bioinformatics and Medicine Working Group of EURO
EWG Advances in Preference Handling
EWG-ORSDCE, OR in Sustainable Development and
Civil Engineering
EWG Pricing & Revenue Management
EWG VeRoLog on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization
EWG Stochastic Programming (EWGSP)
EWG on Sustainable Supply Chains
EWG on Lot-Sizing (EWG LOT)
EWG OR in Sports
EWG on Humanitarian Operations
EURO Today  

28. Promotion of Young Researchers
Education and
Promotion of Young Researchers  
EURO Summer and Winter Institutes (ESWI)
PhD Schools
EURO Today  

29. EURO Awards  
EURO Today  

30. EURO Today EURO Gold Medal (EGM)
Awards  
EURO Gold Medal (EGM)
EURO Distinguished Service Medal (EDSM)
EURO Excellence in Practice Award (EEPA)
EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award (EDDA)
EURO Award for Best EJOR Paper (EABEP)
EURO Today  

31. The EURO Team  
EURO Today  

32. Immediate Past President
Gerhard Wäscher (Germany)
Immediate Past President
EURO Today  

33. Sally Brailsford (UK)
Vice-President 1
Conferences and meetings:
EURO-k
EURO Mini Conferences
EURO Today  

34. EURO Today Kenneth Sörensen (Belgium) Vice-President 2
Working Groups &Education:
ESWI
PhD Schools
EURO Today  

35. EURO Today Silvano Martello (Italy) Vice-President 3
Publications and Communications
EURO Journals (EJOR, EJTL, EJCO, EJDA)
EURO Advanced Tutorials on OR
Visibility
EURO Today  

36. Jesper Larsen (Denmark)
Secretary
EURO Today  

37. Marino Widmer (Switzerland)
Treasurer
EURO Today  

38. EURO Today Jacek Blazewicz (Poland) IFORS VP (EURO)
Communication with IFORS
EURO Today  

39. Sarah Fores (UK)
EURO Manager
EURO Today  

40. EURO Today Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber (EURO Conference Advisor)
Bernard Fortz (Belgium)
Webmaster& Manager EURO Conference System
EURO Today  

41. EURO Today Marie-France Rogge (Belgium)
Website Editor and Administrator
EURO Today  

42. Starting in January 2016 President Elect Richard Eglese (UK)
VP1: Albert Wagelmans
(The Netherlands)
EURO Today  

43. EURO k-Conferences  

44. What will you find in a EURO-k Conference
Open conference Global attendance Exceptional speakers Wide range of topics Tutorials and Keynotes by prominent researchers Making an impact: OR in practice Contributions to your area of interest Excellent scientific event in unique atmosphere

45. EURO-k’s are the fuel that makes EURO engine work !
More reasons to come  
EURO-k’s are the fuel that makes EURO engine work !
Working groups
EURO Summer and Winter Institutes
EURO PhD Schools
EURO Mini Conferences

46. David Pisinger Programme Committee
Valerie Belton
Organizing Committee
Tim Bedford
Organizing Committee
David Pisinger Programme Committee

48. President of ORS Stewart Robinson Loughborough University

49. Welcome from the Operational Research Society
Sir Charles Goodeve

50. Welcome from the Operational Research Society

51. Welcome from the Operational Research Society

53. Executive Dean for the Business School, Strathclyde University David Hillier

55. The Rt. Hon. Lord Provost of Glasgow Sadie Docherty

57. EURO Gold Medal (EGM 2015)
Ger Koole
chair of the 2015 jury

58. EURO Gold Medal (EGM 2015) Members of the 2015 Jury:
Ger Koole (The Netherlands) - chair
Berç Rustem (United Kingdom)
Luk Van Wassenhove (France)
Richard Eglese (United Kingdom)
Martine Labbé (Belgium)

59. About the EURO Gold Medal
“the highest distinction within OR in Europe”
“conferred on a prominent person for an outstanding contribution to Operational Research”
awarded for a “body of work in operational research, preferably published over a period of several years”
recipient should have a “recognized stature in the European OR community”
nominations by national societies and previous laureates

60. About the 2015 Recipient
Prizes: Fulkerson Prize (AMS/MPS), Lanchester Prize (ORSA), Dantzig Prize (MPS/SIAM), Von Neuman Theory Prize (INFORMS), Edelman Award (INFORMS)
ERC advanced grant
honorate doctorates University of Waterloo and Eötvös Loránd University
member Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, Spinoza Prize (NWO), Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion
4 books on L & IP and CO
>110 journal publications (Google h-index 51)
numerous editorships

61. Plenary Presentation The Laureate of the EURO Gold Medal Alexander Schrijver

63. EURO Distinguished Service Medal Award (EDSM 2015)
The EDSM is for recognition of distinguished service to the Association of European OR Societies (EURO) and to the profession of OR.
Jan Węglarz - chair

64. EURO Distinguished Service Medal Award (EDSM 2015)
Members of the 2015 Jury:
Jan Węglarz (Poland) - chair
Valerie Belton (UK)
Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger (Austria)
Theo Stewart (South Africa)
Ignacio García Jurado (Spain)

65. EURO Distinguished Service Medal Award (EDSM 2015)
Eligibility
The EDSM 2015 will be given to an individual
who has served the European OR community and the profession effectively for many years.
No currently active officer of EURO (Executive Committee member, EDSM 2015 jury member, Organising and Programme Committees Chairpersons of the EURO 2015 Conference)

66. EURO Distinguished Service Medal Award (EDSM 2015)
The Award
The laureate will receive an award,
a diploma,
and will be invited to all future EURO Conferences without payment of the registration fees.

67. About the laureate’s education
M.Sc. in Statistics and Probability from the Statistics Institute of the University of Paris,
Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Paris, 1961

68. Contribution to the field of OR
Graph Theory with path-breaking contributions to the theory of flows in networks and project scheduling
Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding with the invention of the family of ELECTRE methods that led to the creation of the European School of MCDA

69. Contribution to OR in laureate’s country
“Direction Scientifique” of SEMA-METRA, (Société d’Économie et de Mathématiques Appliquées),
Vice President ( ) and President ( ) of AFCET (the French OR society at that time)
Founder and Director of LAMSADE Laboratory at University Paris Dauphine,
Scientific Advisor of RATP (the company operating all public transports in the Paris region),

70. Contribution to EURO
President of EURO ( ), after having served in the EURO Council for several years
Founder (1985) and coordinator (till 2010) of the EURO Working Group on “Multicriteria Decision Aiding”
Member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Operational Research (since 1975)

71. Personal Doctor Honoris Causa of seven distinguished universities
EURO Gold Medal, 1992
MCDM Gold Medal by the International MCDM Society, 1995
HERMES Award from Faculty of Business Administration of Laval University in Québec, Canada, 1991
He celebrated his 80th anniversary on March 15, 2014

72. EURO Distinguished Service Medal Award (EDSM 2015)
Bernard Roy

74. Special Session to Commemorate Philippe Van Asbroeck Martine Labbé

76. Program Overview and Latest Information David Pisinger, PC-chair

77. Structure of Conference

78. Invited Speakers
3 plenary speakers
11 keynote/tutorail speakers

79. Prof. R. Tyrell Rockafellar, IFORS IDL
Risk and Reliability in Stochastic Optimization
Monday 16:30

80. Sir Alan Wilson
Solving Complex Problems for the Long Term: Cities in 2065
Tuesday 16:30

81. Prof. M. Grazia Speranza Trends in Transportation and Logistics
Wednesday 11:00

82. Keynote and Tutorial Talks, Monday
8:30-10:00 Tutorial Lecture: Thomas Stuetzle
Automatic Algorithm Configuration: Advances and Perspectives
10:30-12:00 Keynote Lecture: Michael Trick
Business Analytics: Combining Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics to Have Broad Impact
12:30-14:00 Keynote Lecture: Markku Markkula
Regional Innovation ecosystems pioneering the Europe 2020 development - integrating top-down and bottom-up
14:30-16:00 Keynote Lecture: Horst Hamacher
Operations Research Models in Evacuation Planning

83. Keynote and Tutorial Talks, Tuesday
8:30-10:00 Keynote Lecture: Tony O'Connor
OR at the Heart of Government - how the Government OR Service Influences Decision Making
10:30-12:00 Tutorial Lecture: Martin Savelsbergh
Advances in Criterion Space Search Methods for Multiobjective Mixed Integer Programming
12:30-14:00 Keynote Lecture: Stefan Nickel
Is Optimal Still Good Enough? - Modern Supply Chain Planning
14:30-16:00 Keynote Lecture: Eva K. Lee
Optimizing and Transforming the Healthcare System

84. Keynote and Tutorial Talks, Wednesday
9:00-10:30 Keynote Lecture: Raimo P. Hämäläinen
Behavioural Operational Research
12:30-14:00 Tutorial Lecture: Jacek Blazewicz
OR Models and Algorithms for Bioinformatics
14:30-16:00 Keynote Lecture: Ariela Sofer
OR Education in the Age of Analytics

85. Award Sessions EURO Excellence in Practice (EEPA), Monday slot C and D
EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award (EDDA), Tuesday slot B and C
ROADEF / EURO OR Challenge presentation, every day slot A
EURO working group awards

86. MAI Activities Workshops Speed networking Academid-practitioner bazaar
Mentoring sessions
Grand Challenges

87. Some numbers 2398 Abstracts submitted 1902 Presentations 540 Sessions
2123 Registered Participants
(as of July 8)

88. Participants from 73 Countries

89. Participants from 73 Countries
United Kingdom
321
Germany
162
Turkey
136
Spain
105
France 91
United States 84
Italy 79
Brazil 76
Netherlands 58
Belgium 57
Taiwan 52
Portugal
Japan 50
China 38
Poland 34
Canada
Austria
India 33
Denmark 30
Finland 29
Chile 28
Russian Federation 24
Korea, Republic
Greece 20
Czech Republic 19
Switzerland 16
Colombia
Ireland 14
South Africa 13
Norway 12
Israel
Australia
Sweden 10
Indonesia
Mexico 9
Hong Kong
Nigeria
Iran, Islamic Rep.
Lithuania 7
Croatia 6
Slovenia 6
Hungary 5
Algeria
Romania
Singapore
Ukraine
Tunisia 4
Venezuela
Slovakia
Peru 3
Egypt
Serbia
New Zealand
Saudi Arabia
Luxembourg
Lebanon
Pakistan 2
Belarus
Latvia
Azerbaijan
Philippines 2
Argentina
Bulgaria
Iceland
Afghanistan
Jordan 1
Qatar
Malaysia
Ecuador
Uruguay
Moldova, Republic
Thailand
Bosnia And Herzegovina

90. Last minute Changes Addendum to official program
Parallel tracks in ”Operations Research” stream, merged to one track
Workshop ”MAI - Data Science: how to” TA-47 cancelled
A daily update will be published on
Update conference App

91. Latest Information from Organizers Valerie Belton, Tim Bedford, OC-chairs

92. Sponsors

93. Exhibitors

94. Exhibitors
The exhibition is right out side this room on level 2 of the TIC building if you have managed to miss it.
It includes 
Tourist information,
LocalSolver, a relatively new company in the optimization space, is showing how you can include black boxes in your objective function.
FICO, we have heard, have a raffle for an iPad
At Elsevier’s table  you can sign up for a one-to-one session with a journal editor to get suggestions and feedback on a paper
And a total of about 14 exhibitors

95. Overview of campus – colour codes

96. Breaks & Lunch There are 5 Catering Hubs Morning Break 10.00 – 10.30
Afternoon Break
16.00 – 16.30
Lunches can be collected between and 14.15

97. This is the place to go if you want to sit & eat
Catering Hubs
This is the place to go if you want to sit & eat X
Vegetarian & halal are available everywhere
Special diets to be collected from TIC

98. Conference App

99. Key features of the App Updates to information through conference
Multiple ways into the schedule
Links to abstracts from the sessions (but note order)
Exhibitor information
General conference and area information
Lunch, teas and coffees, eating out in Glasgow tips
Maps
Updates to information through conference

100. Plenary Talks The Barony – Great Hall (ticketed) Transmitted live to:
TIC Auditorium B&C
John Anderson – 325 (314 & 317)
McCance Lecture Theatre 1
Twitter feed from all locations for questions

101. Plenary Talks – Tickets for the Barony
If you pre-booked a ticket for one of the plenary talks using the Survey Monkey questionnaire you can collect this from the Operational Research Society desk in the Exhibition area in TIC

102. Plenary Talks – Tickets for the Barony
Remaining tickets for the plenaries can be collected from the Operational Research Society Stand at the following times:
Monday plenary – from 9.00 to on Monday
Tuesday and Wednesday plenaries – from 9.00 to on Tuesday
Any tickets that have not been allocated by the latest time specified will be available on a first come, first served basis from the Aroma catering
area in Lord Todd in the break immediately before the plenary talks

103. Welcome Reception

104. Welcome Reception
Two locations – The City Chambers in George Square and TIC
Those of you who arrived early were lucky to get a ticket to the magnificent City Chambers! Please go to the entrance of TIC at 6.15 from where the piper will lead you there with much splendour! The reception in the City Chambers will continue until 7.30.
Those of you who have a ticket for the reception in TIC are also welcome to join the procession and then return to TIC.

105. Welcome Reception
Two locations – The City Chambers in George Square and TIC
Those of you who arrived early were lucky to get a ticket to the magnificent City Chambers! Please go to the entrance of TIC at 6.15 from where the piper will lead you there with much splendour! The reception in the City Chambers will continue until 7.30.
Those of you who have a ticket for the reception in TIC are also welcome to join the procession and then return to TIC.

106. Other
Fire Alarms –
NO TESTING DURING CONFERENCE
Wireless networks –
Eduroam, The Cloud

107. 27th European Conference on Operational Research
The Conference is Open
Please enjoy the conference and your time in Glasgow