<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>The 14th INFORMS Computing Society Conference will take place January 11-13, 2015, at the Omni Richmond Hotel in Richmond, Virginia, USA.</div><div>
<br></div><div>The INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) is soliciting papers and presentations for its fourteenth conference. ICS is focused on contributions at the interface of computer science, artificial intelligence, operations research, and management science. The conference organizers invite submissions discussing novel theoretical and applied research consistent with the ICS focus. We especially encourage submissions targeting this year's conference theme: Operations Research and Computing: Algorithms and Software for Analytics.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Topics of Interest Include:</div><div><br></div><div>Computational Optimization and Solvers</div><div>Constraint Programming and Hybrid Optimization</div><div>Computational Probability and Analysis</div>
<div>Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery</div><div>Simulation</div><div>Modeling Systems and Languages</div><div>Heuristic Search</div><div>Open Source Software</div><div>Stochastic Optimization</div><div>Integer Programming </div>
<div><div><br></div><div>For further information and updates, see the conference web site at</div><div> </div><div> <a href="http://go.vcu.edu/2015ics" target="_blank">http://go.vcu.edu/2015ics</a></div><div><br></div><div>
Presentation and Student Poster Session Abstract Submissions</div>
<div><br></div><div>An abstract of no more than 200 words should be submitted through the submission page at</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ics2015" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ics2015</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Names and affiliations of all authors should be provided, with the presenting author listed first. The deadline for submission of presentation and poster abstracts is October 20, 2014.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Option for Publication</div><div><br></div></div><div><div>In conjunction with the conference, the authors of a limited number of full-length journal articles will be invited to submit their papers for publication in the INFORMS Journal on Computing and associated</div>
<div>with the conference. These papers should be submitted first through the EasyChair link above with the presentation abstract.</div><div><br></div><div>The tentative deadline for submission of papers is May 19, 2014.</div>
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