The 51st Annual Convention of the Operational Research Society of India (ORSI) and International Conference (hereafter, ORSI 2018) was conducted at Victor Menezes Convention Centre (VMCC), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, from 16th -19th December 2018.
ORSI-2018 was organised jointly by ORSI-Mumbai chapter and IIT Bombay, and was sponsored by Optym (Gold sponsor), JDA, Palisade, Spashta Technologies, Opex Analytics, Springer Publisher and IIT Bombay Diamond Jubilee office.
The theme of ORSI-2018 was "Emerging Trends in Operations Research and Management Science". The event saw a total of about 215 participants, and included students, faculty members, industry professionals and consultants. The conference saw participants from 7 countries: India, USA, Canada, France, Belgium, Nigeria, and South Korea.
A total of 119 presentations were held, including 7 keynote lectures as well as ORSI Endowment Lecture, 10 invited talks, 91 contributed papers in parallel sessions, 4 workshop/tutorial sessions and 6 on-the-spot Blitz talks. The main conference spanned three days, 17th to 19th December 2018, with pre-conference tutorials/workshops held on 16th December 2018.
For more details, visit: http://ieor.iitb.ac.in/orsi2018/index.html