Welcome to the official website for the (ORPA) conference 2010. The conference will be scheduled at the Cheikh Anta Diop University for March 18 -20, 2010 .
A special issue will be organized in: ITOR (International Transaction on Operational Research).
The 2010 ORPA conference is focused on the use of Operations Research (OR) in Africa to aid development and promote sustainable growth through the use of some of the cutting edge techniques unique to our field. The conference is intended to bring academics from all over the world together to discuss and present some of the most recent developments in our field. It is also intended as a vehicle to bring industry and the academic world together in order to produce effective and accurate relationships that may result in effective and beneficial implementations of OR in practice.
A non-exhaustive list of Applied topics are :
OR in Transport and Logistic
- Urban Transport Network Design
- Public transportation studies
- Traffic Control
- Multimodal Freight Network Design
- etc.
OR in Water Resources Management
- Water Network Design, Management and Control
- Delivery Water Resource Management Optmisation
- Real-time management of Water Resources
- etc.
OR in Energy and Environment Management
- Renewable Energy System Optimization
- OR in natural resources management
- Operational Research Models in the management of Agricultural Resources
- Operational Research Models in the management of Forestry Resources
- Optimization in Soil Sciences
- etc.
We also invite submissions covering other topics related to OR for development as well as OR applications in government and industry.
All of these applications are fundamentally based on theoretical OR and Optimization topics also in the scope of the conference. A non-exhasutive list of such topics are :
- Integer Programming : linear, quadratic, non-linear
- Multicriteria Optimization
- Global Optimization
- Stochastic Programming
- Scheduling
- etc.