On the 17th of June, the Sunday prior to IPIC 2018, the first edition of the IPIC Doctoral Colloquium will take place.

After the positive and encouraging response from the scientific and wider community to the special issue Operations Research for Neuroscience, the journal Annals of Operations Research (Springer) now invites submissions of papers to a second special issue on the same subject, called Operations Researchfor Neuroscience II.

The main objective of this conference is the dissemination of the work developed by all the community related, in some manner, to Operational Research, namely, faculty members, personnel from different types of organizations and students.

The main goal of EngOpt conferences is to periodically bring together engineers, applied mathematicians and computer scientists working on research, development and practical application of optimization methods applied to all engineering disciplines or developing basic techniques in this field.

Whenever we organize the International Ergonomics Seminars, we try to create an opportunity to exchange experiences between practitioners and theoreticians who deal with various areas of ergonomics.

We have a great pleasure of inviting you to participate in the EURO mini-conference on Logistics Analytics to be held in Minsk, Belarus, on June 18-19, 2018.

Innovative optimization approaches have attracted many research scientists, decision makers, managers, executives, engineers, academicians, officers and practicing researchers in recent years as powerful intelligent computational techniques for solving several complex real-world problems.

The Tunisian Decision Aid Society organizes the inaugural conference of the African Federation of Operational Research Societies (AFROS 2018).

The editors plan to publish a special issue dedicated to the workshop on Graph Spectra, Combinatorics and Optimization, to be held at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, from January 25 to 27, 2018.

This special issue will provide an opportunity to the international research community in optimization and machine learning to publish recent research results in the application of machine learning approaches to optimization methodologies

Many medium to large cities in the World are facing difficulties in managing and improving their urban areas. The impact on daily life becomes more and more noticeable as the concentration of the population in urban areas rises.