Société française de Recherche Opérationnelle et Aide à la Décision

ROADEF, French Operations Research & Decision Support Society
Formation 1998
Legal status Society
Purpose To promote operations research
Region
France
Parent organization
 Association of European Operational Research Societies International Federation of Operational Research Societies
Website www.roadef.org

The French Operations Research & Decision Support Society (in French: Société française de Recherche Opérationnelle et d’Aide à la Décision - ROADEF) is a professional non-profit society that aims to promote the scientific field of Operations Research (OR) and Decision Support (DS) in France.[1] The society is a member of the European umbrella organization, the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO), and of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS).[2]

History

The society was created in 1998. Its mission is to encourage the development of operational research and decision support in France, to disseminate OR/DS knowledge and practices in industry, and to promote their teaching in education.

Founding members of ROADEF included Denis Bouyssou, Jacques Carlier, Philippe Chrétienne, Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès, Dominique Fortin, Xavier Gandibleux, Nelson Maculan Filho, Ali Ridha Mahjoub, Gérard Plateau, Jean-Charles Pomerol, Marie-Claude Portmann, Christian Proust, Catherine Roucairol, Bernard Roy, as well as some OR/DS research laboratories - LAMIH (Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis), Lamsade (Université Paris-Dauphine) - and some companies practicing OR/DS - Bouygues, Eurodecision, Gaz de France, SNCF.

Governance

The ROADEF society is managed by a board composed of six officers elected by the members, including the President, a secretary, a treasurer, three vice presidents, plus a special officer in charge of OR promotion and of industrial relations.

The current president of ROADEF is Frédéric Gardi. Previous presidents included Nadia Brauner, Francis Sourd, Olivier Hudry, Jean-Charles Billaut, Marie-Christine Costa, Arnaud Fréville, Denis Bouyssou, Marie-Claude Portmann.

Membership

Currently (2016), the ROADEF society has more than 400 members - individuals and institutions from academia, industry and administration.

Publications

Jointly with the Belgian Society for Operations Research and the Italian Operations Research Society, ROADEF publishes 4OR-A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research.[3] The publisher firm is Springer. Every 6 months, a printed/online bulletin, Bulletin de la ROADEF, is sent to the members. It includes news, interviews and short presentations of research areas in OR/DS by scientific experts. In addition ROADEF holds the scientific responsibility of the journal RAIRO - Operations Research.[4]

Conferences

Once a year, ROADEF organizes a national conference, attended by about 400 participants (2014). ROADEF also organizes on a regular basis some industrial events to favor exchanges between academics and professionals.[5]

Challenge

Every second year, a challenge is proposed to the OR community.[6] International research teams compete to solve at best a real-world optimization problem provided by a business company. Latest problems were proposed by SNCF, Google, EDF. The winner of the competition is revealed during the EURO conference.

Awards

Last winners included Giacomo Nannicini, Frédéric Gardi, Jérôme Malick, Walid Ben Ameur, Francis Sourd, Philippe Baptiste, Chengbin Chu, Eric Pinson, and Philippe Solot.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Houdry, Olivier (2011), "Description of the French Operational Research and Decision-Aid Society: Société Française de Recherche Opérationnelle et d'aide À la Décision (ROADEF)", Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, doi:10.1002/9780470400531.eorms0877. Abstract: "The French society of operational research and decision-aid (ROADEF) was formed in 1998, with the aim of promoting, in France, all the activities related to the operational research and the decision-aid in all the possible fields: teaching, research, industries, civil and military applications, and so on. This text describes the main features of the ROADEF: how and by whom it was formed, the composition of its successive boards, and its main activities."
  2. ↑ IFORS, retrieved 2016-02-20.
  3. ↑ "4OR".
  4. ↑ "RAIRO".
  5. ↑ "Soirée débat".
  6. ↑ "ROADEF Challenge".
  7. ↑ "List of Prix Robert Faure winners".
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