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BOR Summer School 2016
2016-05-15 - 2016-05-21 | Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
BOR Summer School 2016 was a great success!
Next BOR Summer School in June 2019, Loughborough.
We had 48 participants from 25 countries and 13 speakers
“Best academic event I’ve ever been to in my last 9 years in academia.”
“Very good overview of the field in general.”
“All attendees were very interesting and I learnt a lot just by talking to them.”
Behavioural operational research (BOR) is a new emerging area in operational research. It is interested in the behavioural issues related to model based problem solving as well as to using models to describe human behaviour in complex settings. To learn more about this exciting new area see the papers in the EJOR special issue on BOR.
This summer school was the first in this new area and the speakers included the pioneering professors in the field. This was a unique opportunity to get an early start in this emerging field. The presentations covered different areas of operational research. There was also talks by brain researchers and demonstrations of new measurement techniques, including brain imaging, which are used in studying human emotions and behaviour.
The students had the possibility to describe their research projects and present posters. Students also had the opportunity to discuss their research ideas with our experienced speakers and get valuable feedback.
The summer school was organized by the Systems Analysis Laboratory in the Aalto university and theBOR community. It took place on the Otaniemi campusof the Aalto university near Helsinki.
Raimo P. Hämäläinen
Professor
Systems Analysis Laboratory

EURO2016
2016-07-03 - 2016-07-06
Stream in Behavioural OR
Stream organizers:
L. Alberto Franco
l.a.franco@lboro.ac.uk
Loughborough University, UK
Raimo P. Hämäläinen
raimo.hamalainen@aalto.fi
Aalto University, Finland

General behavioural OR papers

L. Alberto Franco, Raimo P. Hämäläinen: Engaging with behavioural OR: On methods, actors, and praxis
Tuomas Lahtinen, Raimo P. Hämäläinen: Path Dependence in Operational Research – How the Modeling Process Can Influence the Results
Ross Ritchie: Manipulating Expert Risk Perception through Visual Information Format
Jane Christie: How to Choose and Combine OR/MS Methods

Behavioural Issues in Decision Analysis

Irene Pluchinotta, Akin Kazakci, Alexis Tsoukias, Giovanna Fancello: Innovative public decision making assisted by design theory: is it possible?
Valentina Ferretti, Sule Guney, Gilberto Montibeller, Detlof von Winterfeldt: Debiasing Overconfidence
Valerie Belton, Mika Marttunen, Judit Lienert: Combining Methods for Problem Structuring and Multicriteria Decision Analysis – a review of practice and reflections on behavioural implications
Detlof von Winterfeldt: Bayes and Prejudice

Uncertainty, forecasting and policy

Pekka Laitila, Kai Virtanen: Improving Construction of Conditional Probability Tables for Ranked Nodes in Bayesian Networks
Valentin Bertsch, Valeria Di Cosmo, Wolf Fichtner, Marian Hayn: Consumer behaviour and residential demand side flexibility – a calibration approach for electricity load profile modelling
Devon Barrow, Nikolaos Kourentzes: Investigating cognitive strategies used in time series decomposition via a think-aloud protocol analysis: Implications for time series forecasting
Murat Kaya, Ummuhan Akbay: Experiments on Commitment and Priming in Supply Chain Decisions

Modelling human behaviour

Can Sun, Thomas Ponsignon, Thomas Rose: Analyzing supply chain planning behaviors with agent-based modeling and simulation
Duncan Robertson, Leroy White: An Agent-Based Model of Teams under External Shocks
Salimeh Pour Mohammad, Richard Vidgen, Angela Espinosa: Soft OR and SNA for Simulating Human Behaviour
Sean Manzi: The basic components for simulating human behaviour in complex systems and associated research challenges

Links between behavioural sciences and OR

Manel Baucells, Nikolay Osadchiy, Anton Ovchinnikov: Behavioral Anomalies in Consumer Wait-or-Buy Decisions and Their Implications for Markdown Management
K. Nadia Papamichail, Simon French, Duncan Shaw: Decision Analysis in the Nuclear Sector
Ozgur Simsek: Statistical properties of decision environments
Konstantinos Katsikopoulos, Ian Durbach: Simple Models for Decision Analysis and Support? A Synthesis of the Results

Emotions and strategic thinking

Leon Young: Modelling a Strategic Thinking Capability
Ilkka Leppänen, Raimo P. Hämäläinen, Esa Saarinen, Mikko Viinikainen: Inquiry and Advocacy in Human Interactions – A Psychophysiological Study
Pekka Malo: Context Matters: Effects of Emotional Attachment and Information Overload
Raimo P. Hämäläinen, Teemu Tiinanen, Juha Törmänen, Esa Saarinen: PoSITeams 2.0 – Positive Systems Intelligent Teams, an Agent-Based Simulator for Studying Group Behavior

Studying the micro-processes of OR interventions

Katharina Burger: Exploring Model-supported Coordination Processes in PSMIs with Micro-level Video Data
Frances O’Brien, Maureen Meadows: Exploring micro-practices observed during strategy development workshops
John Mingers, Leroy White: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater: The Undesirable Effects of National Research Assessment Exercises on Research
Ashley Carreras, L. Alberto Franco: Managing the Relationship between Clients and Consultants to Enable Progression in Interventions

Behavioural issues in multicriteria decision making

Jyrki Wallenius, Tommi Pajala, Pekka Korhonen, Pekka Malo, Ankur Sinha, Akram Dehnokhalaji: Voting Advice Model
Tommi Pajala, Pekka Korhonen, Jyrki Wallenius: Judgments of importance revisited: What do they mean?
Abolfazl Keshvari, Pekka Korhonen, Jyrki Wallenius: Some thoughts of choosing criteria for decision problems
Andrei Matveenko: Logit, CES, and Rational Inattention

Behavioural issues in environmental decision support

Raffaele Giordano, Irene Pluchinotta: How to make ambiguity an enabling factor in group decision: hints from drought risk management
Mika Marttunen, Valerie Belton, Judit Lienert: Objectives hierarchy related biases in environmental MCDA applications – a meta-analysis
Alice H. Aubert, Judit Lienert: Serious games in environmental MCDA: enhancing preference construction and citizen involvement
Judit Lienert, Fridolin Haag: Messy Environmental Decisions – A Summary of BOR Challenges and Research Ideas

Behavioural Operations Management

Xiaobo Zhao, Yun Zhou, Jinxing Xie: An Inventory System with Quasi-hyperbolic Discounting Rate
Sundara Natarajan Panchanatham, Rahul R Marathe: Forecasting Temporal Changes in Biases
Jelle de Vries, Debjit Roy, René de Koster: Which Drivers Should Transport Your Cargo? Empirical Evidence from Long-haul Transport
Diego de Siqueira Braga, Bernd Hellingrath, Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto: Trust-Aware Decision Support Mechanism for Supply Chains

IFORS 2017
2017-07-17 - 2017-07-21
Stream in Behavioural OR

Stream organizers:
L. Alberto Franco
l.a.franco@lboro.ac.uk
Loughborough University, UK
Raimo P. Hämäläinen
raimo.hamalainen@aalto.fi
Aalto University, Finland

Behavioural issues in the practice of OR

Raimo P. Hämäläinen, Tuomas Lahtinen, Joseph Guillaume: Why pay attention to paths in the practice of environmental modelling?
Jorge Velez-Castiblanco: The structure of problem structuring conversations: A boundary games approach
Isabella Lami, Elena Tavella: A comparison of PSM and non-PSM supported workshops: The creation and use of models
L. Alberto Franco, Christian Greiffenhagen: Making OR practice ‘visible’: An ethnomethodological study of a facilitated modelling workshop

Chair:L. Alberto Franco

Behavioural issues in decision making I

Nikolaos Argyris, Ozlem Karsu, Alec Morton: Capturing preferences for fairness in resource allocation problems
Valentina Ferretti: Any bias in spatial decision-making processes?
Detlof von Winterfeldt: Bayes and prejudice
Gilberto Montibeller, Valentina Ferretti, Detlof von Winterfeldt: On the effectiveness of debiasing overprecision in probabilistic estimates

Gilberto Montibeller

Simulating human behaviour

Gordon Dash, Nina Kajiji, S Tiffany Donaldson: SMART cities: Multiple criteria public housing assignment motivated by neurobehavioral simulation
Logan Laite, Karthik Sankaranarayanan: Neural network analysis of behavioral agent based service channel data
Hilya Arini, Tim Bedford, John Quigley: A conceptual model of trust behaviour in emergency evacuation: Evidence from Indonesian volcano eruption
Duncan Robertson: Agent-based models for simulating behavior

Duncan Robertson

Behavioral issues in decision making II

Aysegul Engin: Role of feedback on bidding behavior in first price reverse auctions
Ewa Roszkowska, Gregory Kersten, Tomasz Wachowicz: Identifying the heuristics and biases in the prenegotiation preference elicitation
Francis Marleau Donais, Irene Abi-Zeid, Roxane Lavoie: Challenges and issues in building a shared model for multi-criteria group decision making: A case study from sustainable transportation
Rudolf Vetschera, David Bourdin: Factors influencing the ratio bias

Rudolf Vetschera

Behavioural issues in environmental-decision making I

Mehrnoosh Enjelasi, Behnam Fahimnia, Andrew Collins: Analysing the behavioural factors in green supplier selection
Fridolin Haag, Peter Reichert, Nele Schuwirth, Judit Lienert: Using trade-off preferences to identify non-additive multi-criteria value functions
Alice H. Aubert, Judit Lienert: Environmental decision analysts, let’s be playful!
Pierre Glynn, Alexey Voinov, Carl Shapiro, Karen Jenni: Adaptive governance with open traceable accountable cognizant science and policy

Alice H. Aubert

Theoretical issues in behavioural OR

David Lane: Behavioural system dynamics: A first sketch map of the territory
Thanos Papadopoulos, Elena Tavella: The role of artefacts within facilitated modelling workshops
Katharina Burger, Leroy White: Theorising collective behaviour in OR interventions with Searle’s social ontology
Leroy White: Social embeddedness, behavioural OR and group decision support: What is the connection?

Leroy White

Behavioural issues in environmental-decision making II

Lisa Scholten: Designing decision processes to overcome barriers to sustainable water systems
Valentin Bertsch: Behavioural aspects of decision making in energy systems – A selection of current topics
Marta Lopes, Carlos Henggeler Antunes, Hermano Bernardo, Humberto Jorge: Energy use feedback: A behavioural OR approach toward better decisions and more efficient energy behaviours
Judit Lienert, Valerie Belton, Fridolin Haag, Jyri Mustajoki, Mika Marttunen: Are all proposed objectives useful in environmental decision-making?

Judit Lienert

Behavioural OR and operations management

Fotios Petropoulos, Dilek Onkal, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos: Consultant interventions and behavioural change in supply chain forecasting
Junlin Chen, Xiaobo Zhao, Deng Gao: Loss-averse decision analysis in overbooking problem
Michael Leyer, Jürgen Strohhecker: The influence of individual factors on group decision-making in dynamic environments
Ilkka Leppänen: Cognitive regulation and decision conflict in the newsvendor game

Ilkka Leppänen

Behavioural issues in markets and environmental management

Dong Xie, Xiaobo Zhao, Wanshan Zhu, Jinxing Xie: Inspection or penalty? An experimental investigation on selling genuine products or counterfeit products
Meysam Arvan, Behnam Fahimnia, Mohsen Reisi, Enno Siemsen: Design and validation of a behaviourally informed forecasting support system
Raffaele Giordano, Irene Pluchinotta, Alessandro Pagano: Organizational cultures and the creation of temporary multi-organization for environmental emergency management: Some hints from flashflood emergency in Lorca (Spain)
Melanie Ayre, Sarah King, Andrew Reeson: Designing a market to generate OR data – An industrial ecology case study

Melanie Ayre

EURO-BOR Winter Workshop, 2018
2018-01-29 - 2018-01-30
180313_Eawag_EWG-BOR_Winter-meeting-Resume

Young BOR Colloquium
2018-07-07 | Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid, Spain
Mentors:
L. Alberto Franco (Loughborough University)
Gilberto Montibeller (Loughborough University)
David Ríos (ICMAT)
Ahti Salo (Aalto University)
Young BOR Colloquium participants in Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid, July 7 2018

EURO2018
2018-07-08 - 2018-07-11 | Online Seminar, Valencia, Spain
Monday, 8:30-10:00
MA-31: Behaviour in Models I
Chair(s): Rudolf Vetschera

Data-driven behavioral models of water reservoir operators
Matteo Giuliani, Andrea Castelletti, Jonathan Herman
Influence modeling: mathematical programming representations of persuasion under either risk or uncertainty
William Caballero, Brian Lunday
Managing complex adaptive systems: a resource/agent modelling perspective
Ross Kazakov, Susan Howick, Alec Morton
Using the Zeuthen-Hicks bargaining model to identify a fixed pie bias in negotiations
Rudolf Vetschera

Monday, 10:30-12:00
MB-31: Behavioural Impacts in OR-Supported Processes I
Chair(s): Gilberto Montibeller

Online weight elicitation: is there really an issue?
Alice H. Aubert, Judit Lienert
Individual differences in model comprehension and use: a study of cognitive styles and cognitive mapping
Ilkka Leppanen, L. Alberto Franco
Attractiveness bias: how the decision situation influences the willingness-to-pay for information
Jan Lenard Rother, Christian Koester, Maximilian Vincent Reimer
Behavioral challenges in policy analysis with conflicting objectives
Gilberto Montibeller

Monday, 12:30-14:00
MC-31: Descriptive Studies of Decision Making
Chair(s): Konstantinos Katsikopoulos

The use of round numbers in preference representation
Ewa Roszkowska, Gregory Kersten, Tomasz Wachowicz
Simple methods of portfolio decision making: what do we lose and what do we gain?
Ian Durbach
The attention economy of online search: a natural experiment
Shashwat Pande, Christopher Holland, Konstantinia Papamichail, Peter Kawalek
One-reason decision making!?
Konstantinos Katsikopoulos, Ozgur Simsek , Jan Malte Lichtenberg, Gregory Wheeler

Monday, 14:30-16:00
MD-31: Behavioural OR: General Papers
Chair(s): Etienne Rouwette

Behavioural operational research within two areas of conflict: an extended classification approach
Damian Braschczok
Developing ORBIT: the operational research behavioural interventions toolkit
Katharina Burger, Leroy White, Martin Kunc, Jonathan Malpass
Integration and application of problem structuring methods: an application in oil exploration
Fahad Mehmood
Physics, foibles and failings: applying the ‘behavioural turn’ to the breadth of system dynamics practice
Etienne Rouwette, David Lane

Tuesday
Tuesday, 8:30-10:00
TA-31: Behaviour in Models II
Chair(s): Pekka Laitila

Does corporate social responsibility impact preferences in ESG portfolio optimization?
Gordon Dash, Nina Kajiji
Simulation of cultural processes and their social impact
Leonidas Sakalauskas
Affective decision making models with applications to social robotics
Si Liu, David Rios Insua
On practical applicability of ranked nodes method for constructing conditional probability tables of Bayesian networks
Pekka Laitila, Kai Virtanen

Tuesday, 10:30-12:00
TB-31: Behavioural Impacts in OR Practice
Chair(s): Judit Lienert

A diagnostic approach to improve the design and evaluation of decision support interventions
Lisa Scholten
Effects of or applications and characteristics of or practitioners: an empirical study
Violeta Cvetkoska
How does literacy, decision style and loss aversion influence end-users’ choice of electricity dynamic tariffs in a smart grid context?
Marta Lopes, Inês Reis, Carlos Henggeler Antunes
To aggregate or disaggregate? Experience from stakeholder interviews with two preference elicitation philosophies (SWING-weighting, UTA-GMS)
Judit Lienert, Jun Zheng

Tuesday, 12:30-14:00
TC-31: Behavioural Processes in OR practice
Chair(s): L. Alberto Franco

In praise of the introverted: an extended use of soft systems methodology mode 2
Jose-Rodrigo Cordoba-Pachon, Sulafah Basahel
Framing strategies and their impact on client/consultant meetings
Ashley Carreras, L. Alberto Franco
Learning multi-criteria decision aiding workshop facilitation: experience from student case studies
Francis Marleau Donais, Irene Abi-Zeid
Formulations in facilitation practice: an exploratory video-based investigation of their use in situ
Alberto Franco, Mie Nielsen

Tuesday, 14:30-16:00
TD-31: Behavioural Impacts in OR-Supported Processes II
Chair(s): Raimo P. Hämäläinen

Can we learn from wrong simulation models? An experimental study exploring simple models
Naoum Tsioptsias, Antuela Tako, Stewart Robinson
Impact of dashboards visualizing causal and stock-flow structure on operations management performance
Michael Leyer, Jürgen Strohhecker
A drop in the bucket? Evaluating decision aiding tools in wastewater infrastructure planning cases
Fridolin Haag, Judit Lienert
Behavioural effects in two procedures for creating a strategy portfolio for climate change mitigation
Raimo P. Hämäläinen, Tuomas Lahtinen

Wednesday
Wednesday, 8:30-10:00
WA-31: Behavioural Operations and Games I
Chair(s): Aysegul Engin

Performance of selected contract designs for the newsvendor problem considering behavioral economic aspects of bargaining: experimental evidence
Maximilian Vincent Reimer
Analysis of the hockey stick phenomenon using game theory and economical experiments
Natalia Correa, Sergio Ramirez
The curse of knowledge in decentralized supply chains
Daniel Sanchez-Loor, Wei-Shiun Chang
Optimistic overconfidence in bidding behavior with differently represented cost feedback in electronic reverse auctions
Aysegul Engin

Wednesday, 10:30-12:00
WB-31: Behavioural Operations and Games II
Chair(s): Ilkka Leppanen

The impact of competition on product and process development decisions: evidence from a behavioral experiment
Margarita Gladkova, Timofey Shalpegin
Suppliers’ learning: aggregate and individual levels
Mohsen Ahmadian, Roger Blake, Ehsan Elahi
Behavior of the agent when the information is distorted by the principal
Andrei Matveenko
Building a hierarchical evaluation model by using interpretive structural modeling: a case study of ERP implementation risks
Ilker Gölcük, Adil Baykasoğlu

GDN- BOR Joint conference Loughborough, 2019
2019-06-11 08:00 - 2019-06-15 17:00 UTC | Loughborough University, Epinal Way, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Find out more at: http://gdnconference.org/gdn2019/.

BOR Summer School, Radboud University, 2019
2019-06-17 08:00 - 2019-06-21 17:00 | Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Find out more
Programme and presentation slides
Photo album

EURO 2019 Dublin
2019-06-23 08:00 - 2019-06-26 17:00 | Dublin, Ireland
Stream Behavioural OR Sessions
Behavioural OR general papers
Chair: L. Alberto Franco
Studying behaviour in OR interventions: A review
L. Alberto Franco, Raimo P. Hämäläinen, Etienne Rouwette, Ilkka Leppanen
Trajectories of praxis: an empirical behavioural OR study Sonya Crowe, Martin Utley
Behavioral OR from a Swedish military OA perspective: Ida Johansson
Widening the OR competences: Systems Intelligence: Raimo P. Hämäläinen
Behavioural issues in environmental-decision making
Chair: Judit Lienert
Online survey to test fairness principles for public infrastructure planning: Judit Lienert, Sara Zuercher, Rudolf Vetschera
Understanding stakeholder learning processes to improve computer technology for forecasting floods in Africa: Francisco Silva Pinto, Judit Lienert
Multi-objective survey design for the range-wide assessment of snow leopards: Ian Durbach
Beyond the multicriteria decision aiding process: A post-project monitoring of involved stakeholders in an urban planning case study: Francis Marleau Donais, Irene Abi-Zeid, Edward Owen Douglas Waygood, Roxane Lavoie
Individual differences in OR-supported processes
Chair: Aysegul Engin
Activating the adequate thinking mode when making decisions – an analysis of visualisation techniques
Michael Leyer, Aysegul Engin, Jürgen Strohhecker
Irrational Maximisers: Are behavioural maximisers more prone to biased judgements than their satisficing counterparts?
Shashwat Pande, K.Nadia Papamichail, Peter Kawalek
Individual differences in model comprehension and use: A study of cognitive styles and cognitive mapping
Ilkka Leppanen, L. Alberto Franco
Variability in decision behaviour: An agent capital perspective
Chidinma Crystal Ulumma Chukwuemeka, K.Nadia Papamichail, Yu-Wang Chen, Richard Allmendinger
Behavioural operations
Chair: Ilkka Leppanen
The optimal ordering and pricing decisions under reference point effects for a newsboy
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Can the sales-operations conflict reduce the bullwhip effect?
Murat Kaya, Gürdal Ertek, Özlem Çoban
Risk judgments in hurricane preparation decisions
Eva Regnier
Role of gender-specific behaviour in supply contract decisions – An experimental investigation
Kumaravel Sivakumar
Behavioural marketing and forecasting
Chair: Christopher Holland
The effectiveness of digital advertising
Gil Greenstein
Collaborative forecasting behavior of humans and machines incorporating the concept of eXplainable AI
Tim Lauer
The online customer journey: Markov chain analysis of clickstream data
Christopher Holland
Modelling behaviour
Chair: Alexander Baumeister
Group decision making with affective characteristics
Si Liu, David Rios
Evaluating pharmaceutical external reference pricing regulation in the EU: A hybrid resource/agent modelling approach
Rossen Kazakov, Susan Howick, Alec Morton
The assignment problem in human resource project management – case of innovative and innovation projects
Helena Gaspars-Wieloch
Behavioural impact on the valuation of flexibility in project management
Alexander Baumeister, Markus Ilg
Behavioural issues in OR practice
Chair: Götz Giering
Enriched Soft System Methodology for practitioners
Fahad Mehmood, Hussain Syed Kazmi
Adoption-based design of decision support tools for manufacturing environments
Melanie Ayre
Do stakeholders know which wastewater systems achieve what they want?
Philipp Beutler, Judit Lienert
Process tracing the choice quality in riskless multi-attribute decisions
Götz Giering, Gilberto Montibeller, L. Alberto Franco

OR61 Annual Conference
2019-09-03 - 2019-09-05 | University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7FS, United Kingdom

Behavioural Operational Research: Emerging & Interdisciplinary Perspectives
2021-05-12 14:30 - 16:30
On Wednesday, 12 May 2021, the EWG-BOR, jointly with the UK OR Society’s BOR SIG, hosted an online workshop for academics and practitioners to explore the challenges and opportunities arising from interdisciplinary and emerging perspectives on Behavioural OR.
Professor Alberto Franco, Loughborough University, UK, and Coordinator of the European Working Group on Behavioural OR opened the event with a presentation on Taking stock of behavioural OR: A review of behavioural studies with an intervention focus, highlighting differences between process and variance studies. He provided suggestions for future BOR research, including research into the role and impact of model-generated information feedback on behaviour and performance, model building involvement, model reuse, and learning as well as research that aims at clarifying the role and impact of individual differences. The accompanying paper has been recently published in EJOR[i].
The workshop then kicked off with speed talks from young BOR academics who provided an overview of their research activities. The presentations featured:

Dr Tuomas Lahtinen, Aalto University (Finland): Path dependence in Operations Research practice – Observations and experiences from the field
Dr Aysegül Engin, University of Vienna (Austria): The cognitive ability and working memory framework: Interpreting cognitive reflection test results in the domain of the cognitive experiential theory
Dr Alice H. Aubert, Eawag – Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Switzerland): OR processes online with laypeople: behavioural issues
Dr Marta Lopes, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (Portugal): Interdisciplinary perspectives on Energy and Behaviour: Towards a Low Carbon Future
Dr George Papachristos, TU Eindhoven (The Netherlands): The behavioural link between system dynamics and transitions
Dr Firouzeh Taghikhah, Australian National University (Australia): Exploring consumer behaviour and policy options in organic food adoption: Insights from the Australian wine sector
Dr Katharina Burger, The University of Bristol (UK): Behavioural Operational Research: A Capabilities Approach

The slides from the speed talks are available here: Speed talks
Presentations were followed by a breakout session, involving small groups of delegates discussing a particular theme, focusing on the following areas:

Open science & replications
Social media for research and community development
Teaching and training BOR: resources and reference materials

The Miro boards from the breakout sessions are available here: Miro boards
Finally, Dr Konstantinos Katsikopoulos, Southampton Business School, UK and Chair of the UK OR Society’s Behavioural OR Special Interest Group, closed the event on behalf of the UK BOR SIG, and Prof Alberto Franco and Prof Rudolf Vetschera, University of Vienna highlighted future engagement opportunities, such as the online EWG-BOR summer school 2021 and the hybrid EURO conference 2021 in Athens.
Delegates from seven European countries and international participants from Brazil and India contributed to the online event. The workshop provided the opportunity to engage with colleagues across the BOR community and explore areas of collective interest and capability within the areas of teaching and training BOR, open science and replication and social media for behavioural operational research and for community building. It is hoped that the opportunities identified and discussed will spark ideas for future innovation and collaboration.
The event was organised by participants of the 1st BOR Summer School held five years ago at Aalto University, Finland.
[i] Franco, L. A., Hämäläinen, R. P., Rouwette, E. A., & Leppänen, I. (2020). Taking stock of Behavioural OR: A review of behavioural studies with an intervention focus. European Journal of Operational Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.11.031

EURO 2021 Hybrid Conference in Athens
2021-07-11 - 2021-07-14 | Athens, Greece

EURO Conference 2021
2021-07-11 - 2021-07-14

3rd Behavioural OR Summer School
2021-09-20 - 2021-09-24
See more information on the following page: 3rd Behavioural OR Summer School

Spring Workshop
2022-04-11 - 2022-04-12 | Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, 3000-393, Coimbra, Portugal
We cordially invite you to submit your contribution to the Spring Workshop 2022 of the EURO Working Group on Behavioural O.R.dedicated to the energy transition (www.uc.pt/en/org/inescc/org_scientific_events/BOR2022) to be held on the 11-12 April 2022 at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
This workshop aims at bringing together researchers, students and practitioners to share recent research, new developments and best practices on the special theme of behavioural OR contributions to the energy transition, as well as providing guidance for developing effective behavioural OR-supported interventions in a vast range of domains.
The programme includes keynote lectures from experts from academia and industry, practical sessions, short presentations by participants, and discussions. Topics range from state-of-the-art methods and applications, including multidisciplinary approaches, modelling and decision support tools.
Although the energy transition is the special theme in this workshop, we encourage participants working in all fields to submit their work. General BOR submissions are also welcome.
A two-day in-person workshop is envisaged. Recommendations of the Health Authority will be followed at all times.
The official language of the workshop is English.

***** Important Dates *****
Abstract submission 8 March 2022
Notification of acceptance 15 March 2022
Deadline registration & payment 31 March 2022

***** Guidelines for Authors *****
Works addressing potential contributions to the special theme of energy transition. All disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches of methodological and application nature are welcome. Abstracts should have maximum 500 words and follow the template.
Each valid registration entitles the author to one presentation in the workshop.
Accepted works will be presented in pitch sessions (5 min/presentation).

***** For further information: mlopes@deec.uc.pt
