The University of Bucharest, Naval Academy Mircea cel Batran Constanta, The Romanian Academy, The Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, are honored to invite everyone engaged in research, teaching, business, or public services related to Operational Research to attend The 9th Balkan Conference on Operational Research which will be held in September 02 - 06, 2009, in Constanta, Romania.The general aim of the Conference is to facilitate the exchange of scientific and technical information related to Operational Research and to promote international co-operation especially among the Balkan countries.CONFERENCE TOPICS: * Optimization * Risk Analysis * Statistics and Stochastics * Computer Support Systems * Modeling and Decision Making * Electronic Commerce * Inter-Balkan Collaboration * New Business Models * Operational Research and Logistics / E-Logistics * Combinatorial Optimization * Graph Theory * Operational Research Applications: o Agriculture - Forestry o Banking & Finance o Environmental Management o Health Care o Network-Telecommunication o Production o Transportation Planning o Water management * Other Related Topics (source: civile.utcb.ro)