The Organizing Committee is pleased to invite you to participate in the 4-annual Conference on Operations Research, jointly organized by SVOR, GOR, ÖGOR and SIGOPT. It is a special honour for us to host the recently founded society GOR (German Operations Research) for their first annual meeting.

The 11 topics in the sections have been designed accordingly, and with renowned experts leading the plenary and semi-plenary sessions we are convinced that the OR98 conference will be of mutual benefit to both the academic world and OR-professionals in industry.

We would also like to invite you to Zurich, a city that is worth a trip for its own sake, as it offers such a rich choice of cultural, sightseeing and shopping opportunities.

Prof. H.-J. Lüthi, Chairman OR98

Conference Information
 

Chairman Conference	Prof. H.-J. Lüthi
Chairman Program Committee	Prof. P. Kall
Honorary Member	Prof. H.P. Künzi
Members Local Organizing Committee	P. Stähly, C.A. Zehnder,  J. Mayer, I. Drack, V. Rosta Fukuda (Exhibition organizer)
Members Program Committee	W. Domschke, K. Frauendorfer, H. Garbers, H. Gröflin, A. Haurie, A. Hertz, D. Klatte, P. Kleinschmidt, J. Kohlas, U. Leopold-Wildburger,Th. Liebling, H.-J. Lüthi, J. Mayer, U. Rieder, P. Stähly, J.-P. Vial

 
Plenary Speakers:
 

Prof. F. Delbaen, ETH Zurich	Duality Theory and Superhedging in Mathematical Finance
Prof. M. Groetschel, Berlin	Combinatorial Online Optimization
Prof. F. Jensen, Aalborg	Bayesian Networks and Influence Diagrams
Prof. Th. L. Magnanti, MIT	Operations Research and the Virtual Campus: Teaching in the Brave New World of Distant Education
Prof. F. J. Radermacher, Ulm	Herausforderungen an und Beiträge des Operations Research beim Übergang in das 21. Jahrhundert

 
Semi-plenary sessions

The following scientists have been invited by the section chairs to give 1-hour state-of-the-art lectures:
 

Section 1A: Continuous Optimization  Prof. A. Haurie, University of Geneva	Chairs: Feichtinger, Horst, Vial  Recent Trends in Differential Game Modeling of Oligopolistic Competition
Section 1B: Discrete Optimization  Prof. W. Pulleyblank, IBM Research, Canada	Chairs: Burkard, Hertz, Reinelt  Applications of Discrete Optimization in Finance
Section 2: Stochastic Modelling, Optimization and Simulation  Prof. D. Yao, Columbia University, New York	Chairs: Rieder, Stadlober  Stochastic Scheduling and Polymatroid Optimization
Section 3: Econometrics and Statistics  Prof. J. Franke, Universität Kaiserslautern	Chairs: Deistler, Garbers, Schmitz  Nonlinear Methods for Analyzing Financial Time Series
Section 4: Mathematical Economics, Game Theory and Decision Theory  Prof. P. Hammerstein, Humbolt-Universität, Berlin	Chairs: Brachinger, Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger  Evolutionary Game Theory and the Design of Life
Section 5: Banking and Finance  Prof. R. Gibson, Universität Lausanne	Chairs: Bühler, Frauendorfer, Zechner  Recent Trends in Contingent Claims Analysis
Section 6: Operations and Production Management  Prof. E. Pesch, Universität Bonn	Chairs: Günther, Jammernegg, Tempelmeier  Recent Developments in Scheduling
Section 7: Energy and Ecology  Prof. Y. Smeers, CORE University of Louvain-la-Neuve	Chairs: Haurie, Kalliauer  Bidding for Emission and Transmission Rights in an Imperfectly Competitive Power Market
Section 8: Telecommunication  Prof. J. A. Audestad, Corporate Strategy & International Affairs, Oslo	Chairs: Martine Labbé, Mechthild Stoer  Challenges in a Liberalized Telecommunications Market
Section 9: Logistics and Transportation  Dr. L. Kroon, Netherlands Railways, Utrecht	Chairs: Domschke, Fleischmann, Stähly  OR Applications in the Railway World
Section 10: Fuzzy Systems and Neural Networks  Prof. H.-J. Zimmermann, RWTH, Aachen	Chairs: Rommelfanger, Brigitte Werners  Von der Fuzzy Set Theorie zur Computational Intelligence

 
General information
 

Date	Monday, 31 August - Thursday, 3 September 12.00h
Contact Addresses	Secretariat OR98  Institute for Operations Research  ETH Zentrum, CLP  CH-8092 Zurich  Internet: http://www.or98.ethz.ch  e-mail: or98@ifor.math.ethz.ch  Fax : +41-1-632-1025  Phone : +41-1-632-6005 or 4016
Venue	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)  ETH Main Building  Rämistrasse 101, Zurich  (a map/plan will be included with your letter of confirmation)
Hotel accommodation	By Zurich Tourismus, Postfach, CH-8023 Zürich  for information and reservations:  http://www.zurichtourism.ch  Fax: +41-1-215 40 80 / Phone: +41-1-215 40 40  (Please book before 31 July using the reference: OR98)
On site registration	ETH Main Building, Rämistrasse 101  Sunday, 30 August 16.00 - 19.00 h  Monday, 31 August 08.00h
Welcome party	Monday, 31 August , 18.00h ETH Main Building, Rämistrasse 101 All participants are kindly invited to this social event.
Cruise with dinner	Wednesday, 2 September, 18.30 - 21.00h The dinner will be held on a boat on the Lake of Zurich (limited number of tickets)
Special events	GOR General Assembly 98: Tuesday, 1 September ÖGOR General Assembly 98: Wednesday, 2 September