The Symposium theme for 2019 is Designing Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chains in an Era of Rich Data. We invite contributions addressing issues in the operations, supply chain, and services management disciplines. Papers addressing our theme of Designing Sustainable and Resilient Supply...

The conference will bring together scientists from all over the world to discuss theoretical aspects and various applications of operations research. Topics of the conference: Hierarchical games and the theory of active systems; Discrete optimization problems; Continuous optimization problems;...

On Wednesday, May 30, 1945, Mr John Dedman, Minister for Post-war Reconstruction and Minister in charge of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in the Curtin Labor Government, stood up to present the White Paper on Full Employment to the House of Representatives of the Australian...

Topics: - what constitutes a ‘crisis’, global or local, in countries with decades of economic turbulence - changing notions of ‘the good life’ and luxury - youth consumer cultures, both emerging ones and those linked to Soviet pasts - migrant labour and local economies - money...

Issues explored by the two-day conference will include budget sustainability, education, infrastructure, trade with Asia, aged care, federalism, the labour market and employment, climate change and energy, social disadvantage and exclusion and the end of the aged of entitlement.

Major Theme: The Unemployment Aftermath of the Crisis While papers in any area of labour market analysis will be of interest, papers will be particularly welcome in the following research and policy areas: - Reflections on the global financial crisis? Reform agendas etc. - Any research on...

Topics: PLM and product design support systems; Virtual reality; Mass customization; Design and reconfiguration of manufacturing systems; Facility planning and materials handling; Inventory control, production planning and scheduling; Pricing and outsourcing; Supply chains and networks;...

Program: Session A: Fertility in Russia Session B: Migrants and their Behavior in Central Asia and Russia Session C: Retirement and Consumption Session D: Invited Policy Lecture Session E: Informality and Self-Employment Session F: Minimum Wages in Russia Session G: Education and Labor Market...

Major Theme: The Way Forward - Austerity or Stimulus The Conference will seek to explore the apparent contradictions of the policy stances that are now emerging amidst the global unemployment crisis. More specific themes: - Reflections on the global financial crisis? Reform agendas etc. - Any...

The conference will bring operational researchers from around the globe together. Papers on the theme of efficiency and productivity analysis and performance management are welcome. Both parametric and non-parametric papers will be considered. We especially welcome papers on the theory,...