SSAFR 2015 Symposium for Systems Analysis in Forest Resources

Date: 
19.08.2015

The SSAFR Conference will be held from August 19 to August 21, 2015 in Uppsala, Sweden. The symposium will bring together academicians and professionals from forest management, forest operations and logistics, wood sciences, industrial engineering, analytics and operations research to share latest research findings and brainstorm on new ideas across disciplines.

The SSAFR symposia congregate researchers and practitioners in the area of Operations Research and Systems Analysis in Forest Resources. The symposia are held biannually and have until now taken place in the Americas, mostly in USA. This would be the first time the symposium takes place in Europe. Let it be an opportunity to further strengthen the community worldwide.

Objectives
Operations Research and Systems Analysis in Forest Resources is a truly broad area. The aim is to have a representation of presentations and experts that covers this broad and expanding field. Topics of interest include: strategic, operational and tactical planning forest planning, fire and pests, spatial problems, hierarchical problems, forest operations, forest supply chain, multiple objectives, uncertainty, GIS and information technologies, algorithmic developments, exact, heuristic and metaheuristic methods as well as broad problem areas such as economics of sustainability, assessment of ecosystem services, environmental issues, wood for energy, and landscape planning.

Structure of the symposium
We plan to have a strong series of plenary presentations and parallel tracks. The structure of the symposium is meant to facilitate discussion, analysis and networking among the invited speakers, attendees and students. We will also have a panel discussion on the topics of the symposium. Prior to the conference, on the 18th August, we plan for an excursion showing the forest fuel supply chain of a major heat plant.

Some important dates
► December 1st, 2015: Call for submission of presentations and posters
► February 1st, 2015: Deadline submission of presentations and posters
► March 1st, 2015: Presentations and posters notification
► June 30th , 2015: Early bird registration deadline

More information can be found here
http://www.skogforsk.se/ssafr2015