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 () (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve management and ...

throughout Europe. It was established in 1975.

Overview

EURO is a

nonprofit organization A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, not-for-profit organization, or simply a nonprofit, is a non-governmental (private) legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public, or so ...

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 or other form of organization. A committee may not itself be considered to be a form of assembly or a decision-making body. Usually, an assembly o ...

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

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

* Belarus *

Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ...

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

* Czech Republic * Denmark * Estonia *

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, 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 and ...

* Iceland * Ireland * Israel *

Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

* Lithuania *

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

* Norway *

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

* Portugal * Serbia * Slovakia * Slovenia *

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

* Switzerland * Turkey * Tunisia *

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

Activities

EURO publishes

scholarly journal An academic journal (or scholarly journal or scientific journal) is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. They serve as permanent and transparent forums for the dissemination, scr ...

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'' * '' EURO Journal on Decision Processes'' * '' EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics'' 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 EURO Working Group on Locational Analysi
EWGLA
the Continuous Optimization Working Grou
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. EURO has four forums:
WISDOM
(Women In Society: Doing Operational Research and Management Science)
EUROYoung

EURO Practitioners' Forum

OR Education 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 * 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 24 September 1947 in Poznań) is a Polish computer scientist. His current research focuses on operations research. He is the winner of the 2000 Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science. Life and career He studied at the 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 ove ...

* 2011-2012 -

M. Grazia Speranza Maria Grazia Speranza (born 30 March 1957) is an Italian applied mathematician and operations researcher. Her research involves the application of mathematical optimization to problems including portfolio optimization and the combination of inven ...

* 2013-2014 - Gerhard Wäscher * 2015-2016 - Elena Fernández * 2017-2018 - Richard Eglese * 2019-2020 -

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

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

References

External links

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