PARN - Productivity
Analysis Research Network
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PARN News
1. Summer School July 7-11, 2008
2.
Special Issue on:”Application of Metaheuristics in the Optimisation and
Performance Measurement of Operations, Logistics and Supply Chains”
3.
North American Productivity Workshop V, 2008
4. DEA Stream at the 12th International
Conference on Operational Research KOI 2008
1. Summer School July
7-11, 2008
Summer School
Advanced Quantitative Methods:
Applied Multivariate Data Analysis,
Bootstrapping and Productivity/Efficiency Measurement
The course presents the
latest developments in parametric and nonparametric approaches.
Recent advances in
these areas open new perspectives in fields of applications, including Science
and Technology; Higher Education; Growth; Micro Economic Theory of Production;
Operations Research; Management Science; Regulated Industries and others.
7-11 July, 2008
Via Diotisalvi 2,
Director of the School: Prof. Andrea Bonaccorsi,
Lecturer: Prof.
Léopold Simar, Université Catholique de Lovain
Tutors/ trainers: Doctor Philippe Vanden Eeckaut,
Université de Lille
Doctor Cinzia Daraio,
2. Special Issue
on:”Application of Metaheuristics in the Optimisation and Performance Measurement
of Operations, Logistics and Supply Chains”
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=839
3. North American
Productivity Workshop V, 2008
http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/economics/events.cfm?doc_id=5255
4. Dea Stream
Professor Luka Neralic'
(lneralic@efzg.hr <mailto:lneralic@efzg.hr>) and myself, Valter Boljuncic, (vbolj@efpu.hr <mailto:vbolj@efpu.hr>) will organize a DEA Stream at the 12th
International Conference on Operational Research KOI 2008, September 24-26,
The Conference is organized by the
Croatian Operational Research Society (CRORS). The DEA Stream will be devoted to the
30th anniversary of publishing the seminal paper A. Charnes, W. W. Cooper, and
E. Rhodes, "Measuring the Efficiency of Decision Making Units",
European Journal of Operational Research 2(1978), 429-444. The introductory
plenary talk to the DEA Stream will be given by Professor *Rajiv D. Banker*,
Fox School of Business, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA who accepted our
invitation to attend the Conference
as an invited plenary speaker.
Details of the
Conference KOI 2008 can be found at www.efpu.hr/koi08 <http://www.efpu.hr/koi08>