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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:red;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Reminder – S</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:red;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">ubmit
your abstract<i> NOW – Acceptances are done on a rolling basis!</i></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">IFORS 2023 –
</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">ABSTRACT DEADLINE
<span style="color:black">MARCH 30</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">IFORS 2023</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">23<sup>rd</sup> IFORS Triennial Conference</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Santiago, Chile, July 10 - 14, 2023</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><a href="https://ifors2023.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://ifors2023.com/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Abstract submission system is available online at:
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><a href="https://www.euro-online.org/conf/ifors2023/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue">https://www.euro-online.org/conf/ifors2023/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">There are over
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">40 c<span style="color:black">lusters already identified which span a diversity of OR topics.
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">The</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">invited clusters and their chairs are found at
</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><a href="https://ifors2023.com/clusters" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue">https://ifors2023.com/clusters</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">.
<span style="color:black">Abstracts must be written in English with a maximum of 2500 characters; submission deadline:
<b>March 30, 2023</b>.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">All accepted and presented abstracts will be published online as a monograph with ISBN
/ DOI identifier numbers.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">We also plan a few special issues of journals for papers taken from the abstracts/presentations
at IFORS 2023, including one on logistics of ITOR (</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><a href="https://www.ifors.org/itor/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue">https://www.ifors.org/itor/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">).
More information will be forthcoming soon.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">We have six exciting options for the included
</span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Cultural Tours</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"> during
<span style="color:black">the conference – possibilities include emphasis on arts, wine regions, and skiing in the
</span>Andes! See details of the tours here: </span><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><a href="https://ifors2023.com/venue/travel" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue">https://ifors2023.com/venue/travel</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Distinguished Plenaries</span></u><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#202124;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">:</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Margaret Brandeau, Stanford University</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">, USA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Juan Carlos Muñoz, Minister of Transportation of the Chilean Government and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="ES-CL" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">·</span><span lang="ES-CL" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">
</span><span lang="ES-CL" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Paolo Toth, Università di Bologna</span><span lang="ES-CL" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">, Italy (The EURO Plenary)</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">·</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Andrés Weintraub, University of Chile</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:3.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Stimulating Keynotes:</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Rene de Koster, Erasmus University</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">, The Netherlands</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Brian Denton, University of Michigan</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">, USA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Andrea Lodi, Cornell Tech,
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">USA,
<span style="color:black">and the Technion, </span>Israel</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts Amherst</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">, USA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Tava Olsen, Melbourne Business School</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">, Australia</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Dolores Romero Morales, Copenhagen Business School</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">, Denmark</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:3.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:justify"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Memorable Tutorials:</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Carleton Coffrin, National Laboratory at Los Alamos Fred Glover, Entanglement, Inc., and Gary Kochenberger, Entanglement, Inc., USA;
<i>A Tutorial on Quantum Computing and Combinatorial Optimization</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Nesim K. Erkip, Bilkent University, Turkey:
<i>Inventory Problems with Heterogeneous Customers</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Andres Gomez Escobar, University of Southern California, USA:
<i>Machine Learning</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Rosa G. González Ramírez, University of Los Andes (Chile) and Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz, University of Twente (The Netherlands):
<i>Seaside Planning: Overview and Implementation</i> (2 sessions)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Kate Smith-Miles, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Australia:
<i>Stress-testing Algorithms via Instance Space Analysis</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><a href="https://ifors2023.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue">https://ifors2023.com/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">
<span lang="EN-GB">has details about the hotels with special conference rates along with more logistical information.
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<span style="color:red"> </span></span><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><a href="mailto:smithae@auburn.edu" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue">smithae@auburn.edu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ES"><img border="0" width="225" height="67" style="width:2.3437in;height:.6979in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D95D6E.35A1C440" alt="Auburn"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><br>
</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Alice E. Smith</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES">Joe W. Forehand/Accenture Distinguished Professor<br>
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering<br>
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering<br>
Auburn University<br>
O: 334.844.4340<br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><a href="mailto:smithae@auburn.edu"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#2D699E;text-decoration:none">smithae@auburn.edu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:ES"><br>
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