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Papers due (see intructions to authors on Web)15 July

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Late fee becomes Payable2 August

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Conference Social Evening30 August

Conference Day 1 and Banquet31 August

Conference Day 21 September

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Operational Research Society of New Zealand33rd Annual Conference30 August - 1 September, 1998University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

This yearÕs conference of the Operational Research Society is being held in Auckland from Sunday the 30th of August to Tuesday the 1st of September.

We are particularly fortunate to have Professor Michael Saunders of Stanford University, and Professor Azim Houshyar of Eastern Michigan University as keynote speakers.

There is the usual wide variety of papers - something to interest everybody. And, of course, the ÒnetworkingÓ will be of excellent quality!

Action Required

The registration form is enclosed. Please complete this and send to:

ORSNZ Conference
Department of Engineering Science
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland
New Zealand

Send your registration form by August 1 to get the early registration rate.

Included in this mailing are

  • a provisional list of accepted papers,
  • registration information and form,
  • updated conference information

List of Papers

  • Vicky Mabin

Reframing the Product Mix Problem using the Theory of Constraints - the fourth stage

  • Stephen Batstone

Risk Management in Electricity Markets: Contracts, Reservoir Management and Gaming

  • Catherine M Rivers

Coordination in vehicle routing

  • Gavin Bell

Concave Envelope Analysis in Nonconvex Optimisation

  • Peter Gilmour

The role of the expert's decision making skills in management

  • Phil Sheppard

Scheduling Generator Outages to Minimise Financial Impact

  • Ross James

Long Term Memory Strategies for Solving the E/T Scheduling Problem

  • Stuart Dillon

Descriptive Decision Making: Comparing Theory with Practice

  • Chuda Basnet

Production Management Practice In New Zealand

  • Geoffrey Gill

Blending petroleum products at NZ Refining Company

  • David Geary

Improved Shift Generation for NZ Customs

  • Andrew Thomassen

Learning and Forgetting Curves: A Practical Study

  • Tiru Arthanari

On Symmetric Traveling Salesman Polytope and Separation

  • Alistair McNaughton

The scheduling of forest harvesting with adjacency constraints

  • Stuart Mitchell

Aggregate Planning for Winstone Aggregates

  • John Davies

Pedagogical Strategies for the teaching of ORMS

  • Stephen Miller

From Design to Support of Air New Zealand Rostering Systems

  • Azim Houshyar

Keynote Address

  • David Ryan

To be announced

  • Michael Saunders

Keynote Address

  • Shane Henderson, Andrew Mason

Call Centre Rostering by Iterating Integer Programming and Simulation

  • David Neilsen, Andrew Mason

Commercial development of a general application optimisation-based rostering engine

  • Shane Henderson, Andrew Mason, Ilze Ziedins, Richard Thomson, David Burgess

Service Quality Analysis for a Call Centre

  • David Teirney, Andy Philpott, Shane Henderson

Yacht Match Race Simulation

  • Jay Sankaran, C. Krishnamurti, A. A. Patil

On the optimal selection of portfolios under limited diversification

  • Diane Bischak, Dan Trietsch

The rate of false signals for control charts with limits estimated from small samples

  • Chris Wallace, David Ryan

Modelling the International Flight Attendant Tour of Duty Problem

  • Gavin Bell, Deb Chattophadhyay, E. Grant Read

Analysis of Non-Physical Dispatch in the Gas and Electricity Pricing Models

  • Andrew Kerr, E.G. Read

Reservoir management with risk aversion

  • Andy Philpott, Eddie Anderson, John Kaye

Optimal participant behaviour in electricity markets

  • Michael Somervell, Golbon Zakeri

Progressive Hedging in Parallel

  • Les Foulds, J. M. Wilson

Tool Carousel Design via Integer Programming

  • Shane Dye, Jan Audestad, Leen Stougie, Asgeir Tomasgard, Marteen van der Vlerk and Stein W. Wallace

A New Telecommunication Service Provision Model

  • Rakesh Sharma, Les Foulds

A Simulation Model of Horseshoe Layouts

  • John Buchanan, Phil Sheppard

Ranking Projects Using the ELECTRE Method

  • Tristram Scott, Stephen Batstone

Simulation Results from a Hydro Management Model for a Deregulated Electricity Industry

  • Erne Houghton, Victor Portougal

Managing Regime-Changes