BOR - EURO Working Group on Behavioural OR

BOR Workshop - 2023-09 Delft
2023-09-21 - 2023-09-22 | TU Delft campus, Jaffalaan 5, Delft, 2628 BX, Netherlands
The Fall Workshop from the European Working Group on Behavioural OR (EWG BOR) is a 2-day workshop to foster the exchange of BOR knowledge and research practices.

Registration for BOR Fall Workshop 2023 in Delft (NL) now open!

Dear Colleague,
We are happy to announce the forthcoming Fall Workshop of the European Working Group on Behavioural OR (EWG BOR) that will take place in Delft, The Netherlands, 21-22 September 2023. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers, students and practitioners to engage in discussions about ongoing recent research, the current state of the field, and future directions of the emerging BOR community. The programme will be comprised of keynote talks from experts, methodological and practical sessions, short presentations by participants, and interactive discussions.
Central to the BOR agenda is the understanding of how human behaviour affects, or is affected by, OR-supported activity, and the use of this understanding to improve OR practice and education. Against this backdrop, we cordially invite contributions that explore behavioural issues in relation to OR, especially those that examine behaviour in OR-supported settings.
Your contribution will be a short presentation delivered as a lightning talk based on conceptual or empirical work that is either complete or still ongoing. Additionally, we provide all participants the option to present a poster. For further information, please see “Guidelines for Authors” in the section below.
It is possible to attend without submitting a talk or a poster contribution.

Programme overview
Thursday 21 September 2023
09.00 – 10.00 Registration and coffee
10.00 – 10.30 Welcome and opening session
10.30 – 12.00 Plenary session 1
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch break
13.30 – 14.30 Research presentations
14.30 – 15.30 Poster session 1 + coffee break
15.30 – 17.00 Interactive session 1: Research methods to inspire BOR
17.00 – 18.30 Dutch Borrel
19.30 Dinner in Delft (not included in fees)
Friday 22 September 2023
09.00 – 09.45 Plenary session 2
09.45 – 10.30 Bridges to other fields (panel discussion)
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee-break
11.00 – 12.00 Interactive session 2: Towards the future of BOR
12.00 – 13.30 Poster session 2 + lunch break
13.30 – 15.00 Feedback session
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee and farewell
19.30 Dinner at the beach (not included in fees)

Important Dates
Abstract submission 25.06.2023
Notification of acceptance 26.06.2023
Deadline registration & payment 25.06.2023

Please note, once we receive the payment, a participation is confirmed.

Fees

(The fees include general costs, materials, lunch & coffee breaks, and Dutch borrel reception on the first evening; they do not include accommodation costs nor breakfast and dinner)

Regular participant fee €150
Reduced student/post-doc fee €100

The participant fees are to be paid in full at the time of registration to bank account [REDACTED]. Make sure to mention “M74-M74106-[YOUR LASTNAME]” as the payment reference.

Registration

The event is hosted by the Policy Analysis section of the Department of Multi-Actor Systems, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, TU Delft.

To register, send an e-mail, including the following information:

Full name, affiliation, contact details and billing address (for payment receipt)
Whether you would like to contribute a lighting talk or a poster, incl. respective information as mentioned under “Guidelines for Authors”
Proof of payment

Please do let us know should you have special dietary requirements or any other special needs.
You will find here addresses and detailed information!
Guidelines for Authors

To submit your contribution, please submit a short title and abstract (350 words max) including author names and affiliations. Accepted abstracts entitle the author(s) to deliver one lightning talk, subject to availability of speaker spots. If there are more submissions than spots for speakers, allocation will be at a first-come, first-serve basis. If you wish to submit a poster, please provide the authors, affiliations, title of the poster and 3 keywords, . Posters will be scheduled during the separate poster presentation slots.
The official language of the workshop is English.
Accommodation and Transport

Delft and surroundings are a popular destination in September. Reserving early via your preferred channels is highly encouraged. A list of accommodation recommendations is provided below.

Accomodation name
Typical price single room (EUR/night)

New Hampshire
130-170

Casa Julia
75-110

Hotel De Koophandel
100-150

Hotel Johannes Vermeer
100-160

Hotel de Plataan
110-160

The Social Hub Delft
100-140

Westcord Hotel Arsenaal
140-190

Hotel Grand Canal
140-190

Campanile Delft
130-150

B&B Swaenenryck
80-100

B&B Bloem
80-100

B&B Monika
80-90

The TU Delft campus is within short distance from Delft train station and city centre (15-20 min walking, 10-15 min by bus, 5-10 min cycling). Link to more information.
Delft has frequent direct train connections to major transport hubs such as Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam Central Station (trains to Germany) or Rotterdam Central Station (trains to UK, Belgium, France).

We are looking forward to meet you in Delft!

BOR Brown Bag Session - June 2023
2023-06-08 13:00 - 13:40 (Europe/Paris) | Online Seminar, Valencia, Spain
Katharina Burger. Studying behaviour in infrastructure transitions (energy, water, transport), with a reflection on BOR methods. Find details here …

BOR Brown Bag Session - April 2023
2023-04-27 13:00 - 13:40 (Europe/Paris) | Online Seminar, Valencia, Spain
Aysegül Engin. Tracing group conflict paths in a model-driven support environment: A cognitive motivation perspective. Find details here …
Behavioral studies have revealed that the way group decision support models and processes are used in practice is contingent to how they are perceived to enable or constraint the ability of group members to achieve their goals. This raises the possibility that the same decision support tool or process applied to the same problem may be used differently by various groups and thus lead to different outcomes. We report preliminary results of an ongoing research program that investigates the extent to which high and low levels of cognitive motivation affect the nature of group members’ engagement with a model-driven decision support approach, and how the group manages conflict in this context. We find that groups exhibit various patterns of group conflict management processes despite using the same decision support approach to complete a task designed to generate a requisite level of cognitive conflict within the groups. Furthermore, groups low in cognitive motivation almost never surfaced conflict. Results for groups high in cognitive motivation are mixed: whereas almost all groups in this category are able to express and deal with their disagreements, only a small proportion also surface and acknowledge the existence of a conflict and resolve it positively. These preliminary findings can have significant implications for the theory and practice of model-driven group decision support.

BOR Brown Bag Session - Feb. 2023
2023-02-09 12:00 UTC | Online Seminar, Valencia, Spain
Speaker: Robert Fildes and Paul Goodwin.
“The behavior of demand planners: their effectiveness in using diverse information”

BOR Brown Bag Session
2022-10-13 13:00 - 13:40 (Europe/Paris) | Online Seminar, Valencia, Spain
Work in progress,
Mini-panel discussions with pre-assigned panelists,
Open discussions

in order to …
foster collaboration, strengthen BOR community, raise interest for BOR topics, increase the visibility of BOR, and fast delivery of new ideas.

BOR Stream at OR64
2022-09-13 - 2022-09-15 | Warwick University, Warwick, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
OR64 is the OR Society’s annual conference that brings together hundreds of academic and professional operational researchers and other analysts to present the latest developments and showcase real-world applications. Join your colleagues, rediscover the OR community and find new project partners at this year’s event, hosted on the University of Warwick’s expansive campus. Website:https://theorsociety.eventsair.com/or64-annual-conference/
The stream Behavioural OR (BOR) brings a helping hand and a fresh perspective to many OR disciplines, from system dynamics and simulation to supply chain management and decision analysis.
The speakers in this stream will share their insight on how BOR can bring benefits to modelling, multi-stakeholder processes and the design and implementation of OR studies. Therefore, this stream will help you to shine a new light on your practice, no matter which area of OR you specialise in. Modellers and researchers should find this stream particularly illuminating. The BOR stream welcomes contributions from both academics and practitioners.
Key Dates
18 July 2022 Abstract portal closes
18 July 2022 Deadline for early bird registration fee
19 July 2022 Standard registration fees apply
25 July 2022 Notification of acceptance sent regarding abstracts
August Draft Schedule of talks on website
August Draft Programme on website
13 September 2022 Conference starts
Submission system: https://theorsociety.eventsair.com/or64-annual-conference

BOR Stream at EURO 2022
2022-07-03 - 2022-07-06 | Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
The upcoming EURO 2022 conference will take place during July 3rd -6th, 2022 at Aalto University, Espoo, Finland (https://euro2022espoo.com/). The organisers are planning for an entirely in-person conference, so all participants will need to be present.
We invite contributions to the Behavioural OR Stream that examine behavioural issues in relation to the design, use and evaluation of OR approaches in both laboratory and field settings, and as input to the development of behavioural models. Central to the growing field of Behavioural OR is a concern with unpacking what people actually do when they engage with OR methods, processes and tools, and how their behaviour affects, or is affected by, OR-supported activity. For background, recent reviews of Behavioural OR can be found at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.11.031 and https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2018.1489355
Your contribution will be a talk based on conceptual or empirical work that is either complete or still ongoing. To enter your contribution, please submit an abstract describing your talk (1500 characters max) to any of the organised Behavioural OR sessions listed below:
Session 01: Preference elicitation
Session code: 04bed779
Session Chair: Judit Lienert (judit.lienert@eawag.ch)
Session 02: Behavioural OR experiments
Session code: d3dcc023
Session Chair: Ayşegül Engin (ayseguel.engin@univie.ac.at)
Session 03: Behavioural forecasting
Session code: e3f33651
Session Chair: Shari De Baets (Shari.DeBaets@UGent.be)
Session 04: Competences in facilitated modelling
Session code: e4c4506a
Session Chair: Raimo P. Hämäläinen (raimo.hamalainen@aalto.fi)
Session 05: Behavioural decision making
Session code: 2f87c4c1
Session Chair: Konstantinos Katsikopoulos (k.katsikopoulos@soton.ac.uk)
Session 06: Behavioural operations
Session code: 661befd1
Session Chair: Ilkka Leppanen (ilkka.j.leppanen@aalto.fi)
Session 07: General papers in Behavioural OR
Session code: e52756ed
Session Chair: L. Alberto Franco (l.a.franco@lboro.ac.uk)

***The submission deadline for abstracts is March 4, 2022***

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
To submit your abstract, please do the following:

Go to https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro32 and click on the ‘Submissions’ tab.
On this page, click on the ‘Submit Abstract’ button. If you are registered with euro-online.org, enter your login details. Otherwise create a new account.

Once you are logged in, you have two ways by which you could submit your abstract:
To submit your abstract to one of the BOR organised sessions above, please enter the relevant submission code (see above), and then fill all the relevant information.

If your abstract does not fit any of the BOR organised sessions above, please submit your abstract using the ‘abstract submission form’. The system will ask you to submit your abstract to a main area called ‘Behavioural OR and Problem Structuring’. From there your abstract will be labelled as a ‘contributed abstract’, and the Behavioural OR Stream Organisers will find it and move it to the Behavioural OR stream so that it can be placed in a relevant session.

Please note that whilst each attendee is only allowed to deliver one talk at the conference, teams of authors could deliver more than one talk if they can reconfigure the order of speakers for different talks.
If you are in doubt regarding which organised Behavioural OR session to submit your abstract to, or have problems with your submission, please contact the relevant Behavioural Stream Chair (see above) or the Behavioural OR Stream Organisers (see below). If you know a colleague who might be interested in submitting an abstract please feel free to forward this invitation.
If you would like to organise and chair a session within the Behavioural OR stream, please contact the Behavioural OR Stream Organisers (see below). For your information, a session consists of 4 talks with a focus on a particular topic consistent with the theme of the Behavioural OR Stream.
We look forward to seeing you in person at EURO 2022!
Alberto Franco (l.a.franco@lboro.ac.uk)
Raimo Hämäläinen (raimo.hamalainen@aalto.fi)
Behavioural OR Stream Organisers
EURO 2022 Conference, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

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

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

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

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

Behavioural Operational Research: Emerging & Interdisciplinary Perspectives
2021-05-12 14:30 - 16:30 UTC
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

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

EURO 2019 Dublin
2019-06-23 08:00 - 2019-06-26 17:00 UTC | 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
shouyu ma
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

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