The Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO) is a regional grouping within the

International Federation of Operational Research Societies The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) is an umbrella organization for national operations research societies of over 45 countries from four geographical regions: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America, and South Americ ...

(IFORS) whose aim is to promote

Operational Research Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve decis ...

throughout Europe. It was established in 1975.

Overview

EURO is a

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domiciled in Switzerland. It aims at the advancement of knowledge, interest and education in

by appropriate means, particularly by the exchange of information, the holding of meetings and conferences, the publication of books, papers, and journals, the awarding of prizes, and the promotion of early stage talents. The members of EURO are national Operational Research Societies which are full members of

(IFORS) and originate from Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Its affairs are regulated by a Council consisting of one representatives of all its members and an

executive committee A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly. A committee is not itself considered to be a form of assembly. Usually, the assembly sends matters into a committee as a way to explore them more ...

which constitutes its board of directors. The current EURO member societies are: *

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

* Belarus *

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

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* Czech Republic * Denmark * Estonia *

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

* Iceland * Ireland * Israel *

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...

* Lithuania *

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* Norway *

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

* Portugal * Serbia * Slovakia * Slovenia *

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

* Switzerland * Turkey * Tunisia *

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Activities

EURO publishes

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s and books about operational research, and organizes international conferences. It also bestows Awards, supports working groups, and organizes educational meetings.

Publications

EURO publishes 4 scholarly journals: * ''

European Journal of Operational Research The ''European Journal of Operational Research'' (EJOR) is a peer-reviewed academic journal in operations research. It was founded in 1977 by the Association of European Operational Research Societies, and is published by Elsevier, with Roman Sł ...

'' * ''

EURO Journal on Computational Optimization The ''EURO Journal on Computational Optimization'' (EJCO) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 2012 and is now published by Elsevier. It is an official journal of the Association of European Operational Research Societies ...

'' * ''

EURO Journal on Decision Processes The ''EURO Journal on Decision Processes'' (EJDP) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 2012 and originally published by Springer Science+Business Media. In 2021, the journal will instead be published by Elsevier. It is an ...

'' * ''

EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics The ''EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics'' (EJTL) is a peer-reviewed academic journal in operations research that was established in 2011 and is now published by Elsevier. It is an official journal of the Association of European Operat ...

'' and the book series ''

EURO Advanced Tutorials in Operational Research The ''EURO Advanced Tutorials in Operational Research'' are a series of short books devoted to advanced topics in Operational Research that are not available in textbooks. The scope of a Tutorial is to provide more detail about advanced topics in ...

''.

Awards

EURO bestows a number of prizes: *

EURO Gold Medal The EURO Gold medal of the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO) is the highest distinction within Operations Research (OR) in Europe. The prize was first awarded to Hans-Jürgen Zimmermann in 1985. The medal is awarded a ...

. The highest distinction within OR in Europe is conferred for an outstanding contribution to the OR science. * Distinguished Service Award, a recognition of distinguished service to EURO, the Association of European Operational Research Societies and to the profession of OR. * Excellence in Practice Award, to recognize outstanding accomplishments in the practice of OR. * Doctoral Dissertation Award, to recognize the OR contributions of PhD students or scientists having less than two years research experience since completing a PhD. * Prize for OR for the Common Good, to honour outstanding accomplishments of OR for solving social-oriented problems. * EURO Award for the Best EJOR Papers, to recognize the best papers published in ''the

''.

Conferences and Meetings

EURO organizes a number of different conferences and events throughout each year: * The EURO-k Conferences are broadly oriented and can be organized in cooperation with other associations such as INFORMS. * EURO Mini Conferences have the objective of assembling a limited number of specialists around a specific theme. At most two EURO Mini Conferences can be supported each year. * EWG Meetings are organized by each EURO Working Group.

Working Groups and Forums

EURO Working Groups are the organizational framework provided by EURO to groups of researchers and practitioners interested in a specific operational research topic. Each EURO Working Group holds at least one meeting per year, organizes sessions at conferences, publishes special issues of OR journals, and organizes conferences or seminars. The European Working Group on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding ( EWG-MCDA), the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization (

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), the European Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics (

VeRoLog The European Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization (also, EWG VeRoLog, or simply VeRoLog) is a working group within EURO, the Association of European Operational Research Societies whose objective is to promote the applicati ...

), the EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis ( EWGLA), the Continuous Optimization Working Group (EUROPT), and the European Working Group on Metaheuristics ( EU/ME) are among the most active groups. EURO Forums are groups tasked with progressing a specific initiative that supports the ongoing health and vitality of OR research and practice. A EURO Forum differentiates itself from a EURO Working Group by promoting the health and vitality of OR without tying itself to a specific research domain or methodology. As of 2023, EURO has three forums:
WISDOM
(Women In Society: Doing Operational Research and Management Science)
EUROYoung

EURO Practitioners' Forum

Education

EURO organizes educational meetings throughout each year: * EURO PhD Schools are an instrument to encourage the organization of post-graduate education initiatives for PhD students under a school format. * EURO Summer/Winter Institutes provide an opportunity for around 25 early stage researchers to meet for about two weeks. Participants present their material, discuss it with others and with a handful of specially invited senior experts in the field, and finally prepare a paper to be considered for inclusion in a feature issue of an OR publication.

Past Presidents

* 1975-1978 - Hans-Jürgen Zimmermann * 1979-1980 - Birger Rapp * 1981-1982 - Rolfe Tomlinson * 1983-1984 - Jean-Pierre Brans * 1985-1986 -

Bernard Roy Bernard Roy (; 15 March 1934 – 28 October 2017) was an emeritus professor at the Université Paris-Dauphine. In 1974 he founded the "Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Modélisation des Systèmes pour l'Aide à la Décision" ( Lamsade). He was President ...

* 1987-1988 - Dominique de Werra * 1989-1990 - Jakob Krarup * 1991-1992 - Jaap Spronk * 1993-1994 - Maurice Shutler * 1995-1996 -

Paolo Toth Paolo Toth (born 29 December 1941 in Zara, Italy) is an Italian scientist and engineer, and an Emeritus Professor of Operations Research at the University of Bologna. He is known for his research in operations research and mathematical programm ...

* 1997-1998 -

Jan Węglarz Jan Węglarz (born 1947 in Poznań) is a Polish computer scientist. His current research focuses on operations research. He studied at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań, where he graduated mathematics in 1969, and later on Poznań Un ...

* 1999-2000 - Christoph Schneeweiß * 2001-2002 - Philippe Vincke * 2003-2004 - Laureano Escudero * 2005-2006 - Alexis Tsoukiàs * 2007-2008 -

Martine Labbé Martine Labbé (born 5 January 1958) is a Belgian operations researcher known for her work on mathematical optimization, facility location, and road pricing. She is an honorary professor of graphs and mathematical optimization in the department of ...

* 2009-2010 -

Valerie Belton Valerie Belton, commonly known as Val Belton, is a retired professor of management science at University of Strathclyde. She is a researcher who has worked on the design and application of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approaches for over ...

* 2011-2012 - M. Grazia Speranza * 2013-2014 - Gerhard Wäscher * 2015-2016 - Elena Fernández * 2017-2018 - Richard Eglese * 2019-2020 -

Immanuel Bomze Immanuel Bomze is an Austrian mathematician. In his Ph.D. thesis, he completely classified all (more than 100 topologically different) possible flows of the generalized Lotka–Volterra dynamics (generalized Lotka–Volterra equation) on the plane ...

* 2021-2022 - Marc Sevaux * 2023-2024 - Anita Schöbel

References

External links

* {{Authority control Operations research societies International scientific organizations International organisations based in Switzerland