Group for Business Analytics, Operations Research and Quantitative Methods

OR 2021

Summary

The International Conference on Operations Research is the joint conference of the Operations Research Societies of Switzerland (SVOR), Germany (GOR e.V.) and Austria (ÖGOR). Amid the global coronavirus pandemic, the OR 2021 was hosted online by the University of Bern from August 31 to September 3, 2021.

Designed around its special theme Business Analytics for Data-Driven Decision Making, the OR 2021 offered an excellent platform for academics and practitioners to present their most recent research and discuss trends in the industry. We welcomed more than 500 participants from operations research, management science, mathematics, data science and analytics. The scientific program included 360 live presentations via Zoom, 12 plenary and semi-plenary talks, and interactive sessions with editors from leading journals and business partners.

We would like to thank everyone who contributed to the success of the virtual OR 2021 conference: the members of the Program and Organizing Committee, the stream chairs, our incredible plenary and semi-plenary speakers, the generous sponsors and partners, the event staff from the University of Bern and, last but not least, the participants and presenters who joined us from all over the world. You all made this event extraordinary.

Committees

Program Committee

Organizing Committee

Program

The scientific program included 360 live presentations via Zoom, 12 invited talks, a Meet-the-Editors event with the Editors-in-Chief of CEJOR, MMOR and OR Spectrum, and an interactive tutorial session with our Gold sponsor Gurobi. In addition, PhD and Master students were invited to an exclusive event on the topic How to get your first paper accepted, where they got insights on successfully writing and publishing articles in academic journals.

The OR 2021 conference also offered a virtual get-together event on the social platform Gather Town. The virtual rooms in Gather Town – designed in the look and feel of the University of Bern – invited participants to interact with sponsors, socialize with colleagues, and take a virtual tour of the city of Bern – all from the convenience and safety of their homes or offices.

More information:

Program Guide
Scientific Program (EURO online tool)
Booklet of Abstracts (PDF export)

Invited Talks

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Dr. Mirjam Dür (EURO Plenary)

Professor of Mathematical Optimization
Augsburg University, Germany

Title of Talk: Conic Optimization: An Application-Oriented Survey

Prof. Dr. Georgia Perakis

William F. Pounds Professor of Operations Research and Operations Management
MIT Sloan School of Management, United States

Title of Talk: Analytics for Tackling COVID-19

Semi-Plenary Speakers

Prof. Dr. Claudia Archetti

Professor of Operations Research
ESSEC Business School, France

Title of Talk: Formulations and Exact Solution Approaches for the Inventory Routing Problem

Prof. Dr. Margaretha Gansterer

Professor for Production Management and Logistics
University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Title of Talk: Collaborative Vehicle Routing: Computational and Game Theoretical Aspects

Prof. Dr. Daniel Kuhn

Professor of Operations Research
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Title of Talk: A Unifying Framework for Robust and Distributionally Robust Optimization

Prof. Dr. Frauke Liers

Professor of Applied Mathematics
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Title of Talk: Mixed-Integer Robust Optimization: Some Algorithms and Some Applications

Prof. Dr. Renata Mansini

Professor of Operations Research
University of Brescia, Italy

Title of Talk: Solving Mixed Integer Linear Programming Problems by Kernel Search: Issues, Challenges and Future Directions

Prof. Dr. Sophie Parragh

Professor for Production and Logistics Management
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Title of Talk: Branch-and-Bound for Multi-Objective (Mixed) Integer Linear Programming: Key Ingredients, Challenges, and Motivating Applications

Prof. Dr. Marc Uetz

Professor for Discrete Mathematics and Mathematical Programming
University of Twente, The Netherlands

Title of Talk: Network Routing and Beyond: Equilibria for Atomic Congestion Games

Prof. Dr. David Wozabal

Professor for Investment, Finance and Risk Management in Energy Markets
Technical University of Munich, Germany

Title of Talk: Short-Term Power Markets: Towards Optimal Trading Decisions

Post-conference Proceedings

Selected conference papers were published in the Operations Research Proceedings by Springer: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-08623-6.