The presentations of the 16th Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources (SSAFR 2015) are now online available. The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Skogforsk hosted more than 100 participants from 22 countries. The keynotes speakers Alan Ager, Charlotte Bengtsson, Sten B. Nilsson and Mikael Rönnqvist gave an overview of the challenges facing the forest sector and in depth analyses of particularly pertinent Operations Research modelling issues. More than 65 presentations covering 12 different thematic areas and a number of posters were presented at the symposium.
The 4th SMTDA conference will focus on new trends in theory, applications and software of Stochastic Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis. The SMTDA2016 will be held in Valletta, Malta from the 1st to the 4th of June, 2016. SMTDA 2016 is organized by the ASMDA International Society and the University of Malta.