Call for abstracts - SSAFR 2015 - Symposium for Systems Analysis in Forest Resources
The SSAFR 2015 symposia (16th Symposium for Systems Analysis in Forest Resources) will take place from August 19-21, 2015 in Uppsala, Sweden.It will 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.
Invitation to organize sessions
You are hereby invited to suggest and organize session topics. Please, send title and a couple of sentences describing the session to ola.eriksson@slu.se to be considered by the Scientific Committee. Elicit your network to prepare presentations and posters for the symposium.
Some important dates
► December 1st, 2015: Call for submission of presentations and posters
► March 1st, 2015: Deadline submission of presentations and posters
► April 1st, 2015: Presentations and posters notification
► June 15th , 2015: Early bird registration deadline
Submission of presentations and posters
Until you the conference homepage is organized, please send you contribution to ola.eriksson@slu.se to be handled by the scientific committee.
Contact and questions
• Scientific program: Ljusk Ola Eriksson (ola.eriksson@slu.se)
• Organizational issues: Gert Andersson (gert.andersson@skogforsk.se)
more information available at http://www.skogforsk.se/ssafr2015
