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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The XVIII CLAIO, Latin-Iberian-American Conference on Operations Research, will take place in Santiago de Chile, October 2-6, 2016. We invite members
of the Latin-Iberian-American Association of Operations Research (</span></font><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 238, 148);">ALIO</span></font><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">)
and the worldwide Operational Research (OR) community to participate in this event and to submit contributions. We are assembling and exiting scientific program consisting of parallel, technical, plenary talks and tutorials, covering several aspects of OR.</span></font><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
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CLAIO 2016 will also host the IX meeting of the Iberian-American Network on Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (Red-M). Special tracks will be organized within CLAIO and will be open to all attendants.</span></font></div>
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</span></font><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>IMPORTANT DATES</strong></span></font><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
</span></font><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>15/March/2016 </strong></span></font><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Submission deadline
for abstract or p</strong></span></font><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>apers.</strong></span></font><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
01/Jun/2016 Acceptance/rejection notification.</span></font><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
1/July/2016 Final versions of papers deadline.</span></font><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
15/Jul/2016 Early registration deadline.</span></font><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
30/Aug/2016 Cut-out date for registration, to be included in the schedule.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>PLENARY AND TUTORIAL SPEAKERS</strong></span></font><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
So far, we have confirmed the following plenary/tutorial speakers:</span></font><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
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Jorge Nocedal, Northwestern University.</span></font><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
John Bartholdi, Georgia Institute of Technology.</span></font><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
Andrés Weintraub, Universidad de Chile.</span></font><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
Shmuel Oren, UC Berkeley.</span></font><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
Roberto Cominetti, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez.</span></font></div>
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To participate in the conference, an abstract of a maximum 1000 characters or a 8-page paper must be submitted. All submissions will go through a review process by the Scientific Committee. </span></font><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
Papers and abstracts may be written in Spanish, English, or Portuguese, the three official languages of CLAIO. All abstracts of accepted contributions will be published in the conference book of abstracts and accepted papers of registered authors will be published
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 12pt;"><font color="black" face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A post conference special issue of Annals of Operations Research will be edited with the best research presented at the conference. Further
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Dept. de Ingeniería Industrial y de Sistemas, Escuela de Ingeniería.<br>
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, <br>
Campus San Joaquín, <br>
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