CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Workshop on Scheduling in Healthcare Systems (SCHEALS'11) 24-26 August 2011 Bahcesehir University Istanbul, Turkey http://web.bahcesehir.edu.tr/icaor2011 www.tadbirstm.org.ir Abstract Many Healthcare providers have suffered a crisis of poor quality and inefficiency with rapidly increasing costs. Healthcare delivery faces complex scheduling needs and stands to gain from advances in scheduling technology and understanding. The SCHEALS 2011 workshop will take place at Bahcesehir University in the city of Istanbul, in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Applied Operational Research (ICAOR'11). We invite you to join your colleagues for this international forum. Sharing of ideas, knowledge and experience is the primary goal of the workshop. The meeting would be ideal for young researchers to present their work, even at a preliminary stage, for constructive discussion and feedback. Conference Theme The conference will cover all aspects of operational research with particular emphasis being placed on applications, including, but not limited to: * Automation * Exact Methods * Expert Systems * Fuzzy Reasoning * Heuristics * Machine Scheduling * Meta-Heuristics * Optimization * Patient Scheduling * Personnel Scheduling * Queuing * Rescheduling * Shift Timetabling * Simulation * Uncertainty International Scientific Programme Committee Ben Atkinson, London Metropolitan University, UK Sigrid Knust, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany Gilbert Laporte, HEC Montréal, Canada Jesper Larsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Rym MHallah, Kuwait University, Kuwait Margarida Moz, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy Kaveh Sheibani, Tadbir, Iran (Chair) Paper Submission Researchers wishing to contribute to the conference are invited to submit manuscripts of not more than 12 pages either as full papers or extended abstracts. The working language of the conference is English. Authors are encouraged to prepare their manuscripts in LNCS style using the MS Word template provided by the Springer, please see Information for LNCS Authors. Papers should be submitted online through the conference website submission system in MS Word 2003 format (.doc). All submissions will be reviewed by at least two referees, and successful papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings. Important Dates 15-Sep-2010 - Submission opens 15-Mar-2011 - Paper submission deadline 15-May-2011 - Notification of decisions 15-Jun-2011 - Registration deadline 30-Jun-2011 - Camera-ready deadline 24-Aug-2011 - Conference starts Special Issue The authors of accepted papers may submit extended versions of their papers for consideration to post-conference special issues of the Journal of Applied Operational Research (JAOR) or Lecture Notes in Management Science (LNMS). Registration All workshop participants are expected to register for the ICAOR 2011 conference. The registration fee is €350 (EUR) per delegate. This includes participation in all the conference sessions, the proceedings, coffee breaks, lunches and the conference dinner. Contact Details General information on the conference email to: icaor2011@gmail.com Local Chair Prof. Dr. Yavuz Gunalay Bahcesehir University, Besiktas 34353 Istanbul, Turkey Tel +90 212 381 0492 Fax +90 212 381 0450 yavuz.gunalay@bahcesehir.edu.tr ICAOR General Chair Prof. Dr. Kaveh Sheibani Tadbir Institute for Operational Research, Systems Design and Financial Services Ltd, Tehran 19797-13673 Iran Tel +98 21 2271 7097 Fax +98 21 2271 6816 tadbir@tadbirstm.org.ir Please visit ICAOR website at www.tadbirstm.org.ir or ICAOR 2011 conference website at http://web.bahcesehir.edu.tr/icaor2011