EWG-ORD 2020 Workshop

A Virtual Event for 2020

Due to COVID-19 the Workshop was re-scheduled as a virtual meeting  from an on-site meeting in Magaliesberg, South Africa

Our Mission

2020 Workshop

Topic Areas

EURO Working Group on Operational Research for Development (EWG-ORD) was established in 2006. Its aim is to promote and facilitate communication links among European and other researchers working in areas of operational research for development. EWG-ORD has organized yearly workshops to promote the importance of operational research in improving the lives of people in developing and developed countries.

The EWG-ORD 2020 Workshop welcomes submissions from academics, industry professionals, and other researchers with empirical or applied contributions in OR for development and sustainability. With the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, our decision-making and modeling landscape is irrevocably changed. The Workshop welcomes OR research on all topic areas addressing these global issues especially as it pertains to development and sustainability.

We appreciate submissions using new data technologies and analytics for sustainable development.  For example:
     * Digital technologies
     * AI and Machine Learning
     * Emergency Management
     * Translational studies
     * and more.

Speaker

 

Brugha

Dr Cathal MacSwiney Brugha, is Professor Emeritus of Decision Analytics at University College Dublin. He is also the President of the Analytics Society of Ireland and a Fellow of the Marketing Institute of Ireland. Prof. Brugha is the international leader in research into Nomology, the formal study of the decision structures that are used in management.  He has been testing these structures as a potential inter-cultural bridge between East and West. His other research focus areas are in Decision Analytics, Strategy Analytics, and Governance Analytics. He is co-author of “Doing Business in China: The Irish Experience” (2010), and “Doing Business With China, the Irish Advantage and Challenge” (2016). He is currently working on a book on decision-making for the general reader.