Description

ICORES 2021 will be held in conjunction with PHOTOPTICS 2021, ICISSP 2021, SENSORNETS 2021 and MODELSWARD 2021. 
Registration to ICORES allows free access to the PHOTOPTICS, ICISSP, SENSORNETS and MODELSWARD conferences (as a non-speaker).

UPCOMING DEADLINES

Regular Paper Submission Extension: September 12, 2021 
Regular Paper Authors Notification: October 20, 2021 
Regular Paper Camera Ready and Registration: November 3, 2021 
The purpose of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES) is to bring together researchers, engineers, faculty, and practitioners interested in both theoretical advances and practical applications in the field of operations research. Two simultaneous tracks will be held, covering on one side domain independent methodologies and technologies and on the other side practical work developed in specific application areas.
CONFERENCE AREAS
1 . Methodologies and Technologies 
2 . Applications 
CONFERENCE CHAIR
Marc Demange, RMIT University, School of Science - Mathematical Sciences, Australia
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Greg H. Parlier, INFORMS, United States
Federico Liberatore, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Aharon Ben-Tal, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Aaron Burciaga, Accenture, United States
Abdelkader Sbihi, EM Normandie, France
SPECIAL SESSIONS
Recent Advances in Integrated Maintenance Modeling and Optimization in Manufacturing Systems - RAIMMOMS
Chairs: Abelhakim Khatab, El-Houssaine Aghezzaf, Claver Diallo and Uday Venkatadri
Submission: November 7, 2021

TUTORIALS
Building Social Ingenuity – Operations Research for Enterprise Transformation
Lecturer: Greg H. Parlier

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
OPEN COMMUNICATIONS
Submission: November 9, 2021

Important Dates

Conference

Regular Papers
Paper Submission: September 12, 2021 (extended) 
Authors Notification: October 20, 2021 
Camera Ready and Registration: November 3, 2021

Position Papers
Paper Submission: September 29, 2021 
Authors Notification: November 7, 2021 
Camera Ready and Registration: November 20, 2021

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: August 31, 2021

Doctoral Consortium
Paper Submission: November 9, 2021
Authors Notification: November 22, 2021
Camera Ready and Registration: December 5, 2021

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: August 31, 2021
Paper Submission: November 7, 2021
Authors Notification: November 21, 2021
Camera Ready and Registration: November 29, 2021

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: November 24, 2021

Demos
Demo Proposal: November 24, 2021

Panels
Panel Proposal: November 24, 2021

Open Communications
Paper Submission: November 9, 2021
Authors Notification: November 22, 2021
Camera Ready and Registration: December 5, 2021

Keynote Lectures

The Power of Duality
Aharon Ben-Tal, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Brokering Insights: or How to Stop Freaking out about the Wrong Things
Aaron Burciaga, Accenture, United States

Available Soon
Abdelkader Sbihi, EM Normandie, France

The Power of Duality 
 

Aharon Ben-Tal 
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology 
Israel 

Brief Bio 
Aharon Ben-Tal is a Professor of Operations Research and former head of the MINERVA Optimization Center at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and holder of the Dresner Chair. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University in 1973. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, University of Copenhagen, Delft University of Technology, MIT, CWI Amsterdam, Columbia University and NYU. His interests are in Continuous Optimization, particularly nonsmooth and large-scale problems, conic and robust optimization, as well as convex and nonsmooth analysis. Recently the focus of his research is on optimization problems affected by uncertainty. In the last 15 years, he has devoted much effort to engineering applications of optimization methodology and computational schemes. Some of the algorithms developed in the MINERVA Optimization Center are in use by Industry (Medical Imaging, Aerospace). He has published more than 130 papers in professional journals and co-authored three books: Optimality in Nonlinear Programming: A Feasible Direction Approach (Wiley-Interscience, 1981) Lectures on Modern Convex Optimization: Analysis, Algorithms and Engineering Applications (SIAM-MPS series on optimization, 2001) and Robust Optimization (Princeton University press, 2009). Prof. Ben-Tal was Dean of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion (1989-1992) and (2011-2021). He served as a council member of the Mathematical Programming Society (1994-1997). He was Area Editor (Continuous Optimization) of Math. of Operations Research (1993-1999), member of the Editorial Board of SIAM J. Optimization, J. Convex Analysis, OR Letters, Mathematical Programming, Management Science, Math. Modeling and Numerical Analysis, European J. of Operations Research and Computational Management Science. During 2012-2021, he was the Area Editor (Optimization) for Operations Research. From February 2021, he is Associate Editor for SIAM J. Optimization.

He gave numerous plenary and keynote lectures in international conferences.

In 2007, Professor Ben-Tal was awarded the EURO Gold Medal - the highest distinction of Operations Research within Europe.
In 2009, he was named Fellow of INFORMS.
In 2010, he was awarded the status of Distinguished Scientist by CWI (center for mathematics and computer science, The Netherlands).
In 2011, he received the IBM Faculty Award. 
In 2021, he was named Fellow of SIAM
In 2021 he was awarded the Khachiyan Prize of INFORMS Optimization Society- for lifetime achievements in the area of Optimization.
In 2021, the Operation Research Society of Israel (ORSIS) awarded him the lifetime achievement Prize.

As of April 2021, he has more than 19,500 citations (Google scholar).

Abstract 
The talk discusses the use of Duality Theory to greatly simplify the solution of otherwise much more intricate optimization problems. This is illustrated by considering applications arising in Robust Optimization,Statistical Information Theory, Design of Mechanical Structure and Machine Learning.

Brokering Insights: or How to Stop Freaking out about the Wrong Things 
 

Aaron Burciaga 
Accenture 
United States 

Brief Bio 

Aaron Burciaga is a Certified Analytics Professional an Analytics Executive at Accenture LLP – he is leads the development of Accenture’s advanced analytics industry solutions globally. Aaron is also Reserve Marine Officer supporting the CIO Headquarters Marine Corps-Pentagon and is a veteran of the Iraq War (Fallujah, Operation Iraqi Freedom). His technical interests are at the crossroads of advanced analytics, global logistics, and information management ("Internet of Things" (IoT) / "Big Data" / "Data Science"). He was elected to the CAP Analytics Certification Board (ACB) in 2021 and was nominated and elected to being the ACB Vice Chair for 2021. Aaron earned a M.S. in Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School and a B.S. from the United States Naval Academy.

Keynote Lecture