<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Apologies for any cross-postings.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I am organizing a cluster on Open Source
Software sponsored by the INFORMS Computing Society at the INFORMS Annual
Meeting in Washington, D.C., October 12-18, 2008 (</font><a href=http://meetings.informs.org/DC08/><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://meetings.informs.org/DC08/</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">).
This cluster will focus on all aspects of open source software relevant
to the Operations Research community.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">If you are interested in organizing
a session in this cluster, please contact me as soon as possible. If you
are interested in giving a talk please contact me or one the following
colleagues who have kindly agreed to organize a session in the cluster:
Brian Borchers, Lijian Chen, Robert Fourer, William Hart, Alan King, Carl
Laird, Robin Lougee-Heimer, Kipp Martin, Andrew Miller, Mahdi Namazifar,
Matthew Saltzman, Stefan Vigerske.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Note that the submission deadline for
all sessions and abstracts is May 15.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Best Regards,</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Joao Goncalves</font>
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Joao P. Goncalves<br>
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center<br>
1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598<br>
Phone: 914-945-2467 Fax: 914-945-3434<br>
jpgoncal@us.ibm.com</font>