Program Committee

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Greg H. Parlier
GH Parlier Consulting
United States

Brief Bio
A West Point graduate and retired US Army Colonel, Greg is currently President, GH Parlier Consulting. A combat veteran with 5 operational deployments and service in over 20 foreign nations on 12 named operations, he was a paratroop commander in the 82nd Airborne Division for 8 years, air-ground battle staff officer, joint operations planner, and Army strategist. When he retired he was the Army's senior, most experienced Operations Research officer with assignments spanning land warfare analyses, manpower and personnel, program analysis and evaluation, and logistics. He was assistant then associate professor of Operations Research at West Point. For 12 years after retiring, he served on the research staff at the Institute for Defense Analyses where he was an advisor to several foreign governments and senior OR analyst supporting the multi-national forces command in Iraq. He is a distinguished graduate of the US Marine Corps Command and Staff College, National Defense Fellow at MIT, Army War College graduate, and recently was adjunct Professor of Operations Research at NC State University. Dr. Parlier holds advanced degrees in engineering, Operations Research, and international security, a certificate in political philosophy from Oxford, and was among the first to complete MIT Sloan's executive program in Management, Innovation, and Technology. He is past president of the Military Applications Society of INFORMS, was vice president for the Military Operations Research Society, fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, elected to the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and previously served as program co-chair for ICORES. ... More >>

Federico Liberatore
Cardiff University
United Kingdom

Brief Bio
Federico Liberatore is a Lecturer in Data & Knowledge Engineering at the School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University. He is also a Fulbrighter Alumni. His areas of expertise are Combinatorial Optimization and Data Science. Presently, his research focuses on mathematical models for policing and security. He is actively collaborating with law enforcement agencies on a number of projects including predictive policing, smart patrolling, and femicides prevention.Federico Liberatore is a Lecturer in Data & Knowledge Engineering at the School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University. He is also a Fulbrighter Alumni. His areas of expertise are Combinatorial Optimization and Data Science. Presently, his research focuses on mathematical models for policing and security. He is actively collaborating with law enforcement agencies on a number of projects including predictive policing, smart patrolling, and femicides prevention.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

El-Houssaine Aghezzaf, Ghent University, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Belgium
Maria T. Almeida, ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Cláudio Alves, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Lionel Amodeo, University of Technology of Troyes, France
Necati Aras, Bogaziçi University, Turkey
Eduardo Barbosa, Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil
Patrizia Beraldi, University of Calabria, Italy
David Bergman, University of Connecticut, United States
Giancarlo Bigi, University of Pisa, Italy
Renato Bruni, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Ahmed Bufardi, Independent Researcher, Switzerland
Sujin Bureerat, KhonKaen University, Thailand
Olivier Caelen, Independent Researcher, Belgium
Massimiliano Caramia, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
Mirko Cesarini, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy
Bo Chen, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Andre A. Cire, University of Toronto, Canada
Roberto Cordone, University of Milan, Italy
Florbela D. Correia, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Heliodoro D. Cruz-Suárez, Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Mexico
Patrizia Daniele, University of Catania, Italy
Mirela Danubianu, "Stefan cel Mare" University of Suceava, Romania
Andrea D'Ariano, University of Roma TRE, Italy
Clarisse Dhaenens, University of Lille, France
Khaled Elbassioni, Masdar Institute, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates
Ali Emrouznejad, Aston University, United Kingdom
Nesim Erkip, Bilkent University, Turkey
Laureano F. Escudero, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Mathilde Excoffier, LRI, Université Paris-Sud XI (Orsay), France
Luis Miguel F. Ferreira, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Paola Festa, University of Napoli, Italy
Ingrid Fischer, Universität Konstanz, Germany
Claudio Gentile, Institute for System Analysis and Computer Science "A. Ruberti", CNR-IASI, Italy
Ronald Giachetti, Naval Postgraduate School, United States
Ilias Gialampoukidis, Information Technologies Institute, Greece
Stefano Giordani, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
Alessandro Giuliani, University of Cagliari, Italy
Giorgio Gnecco, IMT - School for Advanced Studies - Lucca, Italy
Marc Goerigk, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Boris Goldengorin, Moscow University of Physics and Technology, Russian Federation
Dries Goossens, Ghent University, Belgium
Stefano Gualandi, University of Pavia, Italy
Christelle Guéret, University of Angers, France
Francesca Guerriero, University of Calabria, Italy
Gregory Z. Gutin, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
Jin-Kao Hao, University of Angers, France
Kenji Hatano, Doshisha University, Japan
Hanno Hildmann, TNO, Netherlands
Chenyi Hu, The University of Central Arkansas, United States
Johann Hurink, University of Twente, Netherlands
Josef Jablonsky, University of Economics, Czech Republic
Antonio Jiménez-Martín, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Itir Karaesmen, American University, United States
Daniel Karapetyan, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Michael Katehakis, Rutgers University, United States
George Katsirelos, INRA, France
W. D. Kelton, University of Cincinnati, United States
Ahmed Kheiri, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Philip Kilby, CSIRO Data61 and the Australian National University, Australia
Jesuk Ko, Gwangju University, Korea, Republic of
Michal Koháni, University of Zilina, Slovak Republic
Sotiria Lampoudi, Mast Reforestation, United States
Dario Landa-Silva, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Richard C. Larson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Pierre L'Ecuyer, Universite de Montreal, Canada
Janny Leung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China
Benjamin Lev, Drexel University, United States
Dimitrios Liparas, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Germany
Pierre Lopez, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France, France
Qiang Ma, Kyoto University, Japan
Prabhat K. Mahanti, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Viliam Makis, University of Toronto, Canada
Arnaud Malapert, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, I3S, France
Emanuele Manni, University of Salento, Italy
Fabrizio Marinelli, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Concepción Maroto, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Pedro C. Martins, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal
Alfonso Mateos Caballero, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Carlo Meloni, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Marta Mesquita, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Rym MHallah, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Jairo R. Montoya-Torres, Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia
Young Moon, Syracuse University, United States
Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad, Coventry University, United Kingdom
Gaia Nicosia, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy
Pedro P. Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
José Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Mohammad Oskoorouchi, California State University-San Marcos, United States
Selin Özpeynirci, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey
Massimo Paolucci, University of Genova, Italy
Mauro Passacantando, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
Gabrielle Peko, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Ulrich Pferschy, University of Graz, Austria
Caroline Prodhon, University of Technology of Troyes, France
Luca Quadrifoglio, Texas A&M University, United States
Günther Raidl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Celso Ribeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Michela Robba, University of Genova, Italy
Helena S. Rodrigues, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Andre Rossi, Université Paris-Dauphine, France
Lukas Ruf, Consecom AG, Switzerland
Stefan Ruzika, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Mohamed Saleh, Cairo University, Egypt
Cem Saydam, University of North Carolina Charlotte, United States
Abdelkader Sbihi, EM Normandie, France
Andrea Scozzari, Università degli Studi "Niccolo' Cusano", Italy
Laura Scrimali, University of Catania, Italy
René Séguin, Defence Research Development Canada, Canada
Patrick Siarry, University Paris 12 (LiSSi), France
Fabio Stella, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Thomas Stützle, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Wai Yuen Szeto, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Vadim Timkovski, South University, United States
Norbert Trautmann, University of Bern, Switzerland
Chefi Triki, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Michael Tschuggnall, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Inneke Van Nieuwenhuyse, KU Leuven, Belgium
Peter M. Vanden Bosch, University of Portland, United States
Maria Vlasiou, University of Twente, Netherlands
Cameron Walker, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Santoso Wibowo, Central Queensland University, Australia
Gerhard Woeginger, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Neil Yorke-Smith, TU Delft, Netherlands
Yiqiang Q. Zhao, Carleton University, Canada
Xufeng Zhao, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Jan Zizka, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic
Paola Zuddas, university of cagliari, Italy