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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear colleagues,<br>
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Bob Fourer and Susanne Heipcke are organizing a session on the topic of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"Software for Optimization Modeling and Deployment" in the Computing Society<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Stream of the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting, scheduled to take place on
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<p class="MsoNormal">October 26-29, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia, see <a href="https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/annual">
https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/annual</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">They invite submissions on all aspects of modeling software and tools
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<p class="MsoNormal">for optimization, including representation of mathematical optimization<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">problems, interfaces from modeling languages to solvers, and deployment
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<p class="MsoNormal">of optimization projects.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please confirm your interest of speaking in this session by 30 April per
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<p class="MsoNormal">email to the session organizers (Bob Fourer or Susanne Heipcke) so that<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">we can send you an invitation code.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Along with the invitation code you will receive instructions how to submit
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<p class="MsoNormal">your abstract online, via the conference web page.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Abstracts must be written in English and contain no more than 250 words<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">in plain text format (no formulas are allowed), with a maximum length of
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<p class="MsoNormal">150 characters for the title of the abstract. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please note that submissions are limited to one talk per speaker.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The deadline for speakers to complete their submission is May 23, 2025.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Speaker registration deadline is 1 August, 2025.<o:p></o:p></p>
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On behalf of the organizers,<br>
Timo<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">PD Dr. Timo Berthold</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#BBCC00;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">•</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> <b>Software
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#003F5F;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Managing Director (Geschäftsführer): Dean Sanderson</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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