"Column Generation in Integer Linear Programming and Applications"
Nelson Maculan, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - BRAZIL

“Constraint Programming and Scheduling”
Pierre López, Laboratoire d’Analyse et d’Architecture des Svstèmes - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – FRANCE

“Transportation, Planning, Models, Achievements, and Challenges”
Michael Florian, Université de Montreal – CANADA

"Heuristic Methods for Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problems"
Jacques Ferland, Université de Montreal – CANADA

“Scatter Search: Methodology and Applications”
Manuel Laguna, University of Colorado –USA

"Simulation-Based Optimization"
Averill Law, Averill M. Law & Associates – USA

“Models and Algorithms for the Train Timetabling Problem”
Paolo Toht, University of Bologna - ITALY

“Operational research approaches to genome mapping”
Jacek Blazewicz,  Poznan University of Technology - POLONIA

"Applications of Intelligent Methods in Logistics"
Hans-Jüger Zimmermann, Aachen Institute of Technology Operations Research - ALEMANIA