REPLY Separate Professional Conference (SD6297)

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Posted by  Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble at wanadoo.fr>

Hi everybody

I think that Jim Hines is right, but that there should be three
manifestations.

One for the academics and practitioners interested by more theoretical
papers, one for practitioners that are looking for more practical papers and one
for non SDers interested by results.

But life being not ideal, one must consider that one conference is existing
and growing which is already not so bad, although as Jim mentioned it, growth can lead
to problems too.

And 400 attendees are to my opinion already too much and proves the
diversity of the subjects that is interesting for people who have the time
but not so much for people who don't.

So more conferences should be good, but preferably should not be included in
the actual one, because of the risk to deserve it and to satisfy nor the
academics, nor the practitioners and nor the end users.

For example, I would be interested to attend the OR conference in Prague,
where there is a thread about system dynamics and another one about revenue management.
It is 4 days long and I am definitely not interested by attending the say
'Semi-Infinite Optimisation' conference or other exotic subjects (but wait a
moment, this is maybe the key to my problems!) to occupy my time during
these four long days.
I apologize by advance if by bad luck there is in the SD mailing somebody
interested in the afore mentioned subject.
I will wait until the papers are published and if I find one or two really
interesting subjects I may go and occupy the rest of my time visiting the neighbourhood.

About the program proposed by Martin Schaffernicht, although being
interesting, I must say that, fortunately I do not need these progresses and
can manage without them, but would be interested to see how SDers use
already well established techniques.

Regards to everybody and especially to 'semi-infinite optimisation'
aficionados that I will heartily grant the permission to make fun of 'revenue management' my hobby
in return.

Jean-Jacques Laublé. 
Posted by  Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble at wanadoo.fr>
posting date  Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:53:42 +0100