The CLAIO, celebrated every other year in different Latino-American cities, is sponsored by the Latin-Ibero-American Association for Operations Research (ALIO).

It started in Rio de Janeiro, in 1982 and alternated since between Rio, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile1 and Mexico City.

Their main goals are to strength the exchange of experiences, contribute to establish and deepen ties between researchers and practitioners in the region and to help young undergraduate and graduate students in their professional development.

Next CLAIO will take place in Mexico City, on September 4th - 8th, 2000 and will be organized by the Mexican Institute for Systems and Operations Research (IMSIO).

Mexico City, the largest city in the world, is modern and cosmoplitan. It is an exciting combination of pre-hispanic, colonial and modern monuments and architecture, built over the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital.

Main Subject

The congress will focused on the development of Operations Research tools in the following areas:

1. Combinatorial Optimization

2. Multiobjetive Decisions

3. Game Theory

4. Simulation

5. Mathematical Programming

6. Heuristics

7. Routing

8. Graph Theory

9. Production Planning

10. Inventory Theory

11. Allocation Theory

12. Nonlinear Programming

13. Integer Programming

14. Localization

15. Economics and Financial Management

16. Interior Point Methods

17. Network Flows

18. Stochastic Processes

19. Artificial Intelligence

Languages

The official languages of the X CLAIO are Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Submission of papers

Authors must submit an extended abstract (4 to 6 pages), including title, authors' name, affiliation, electronic and postal addresses.

A short abstract (no more than 100 words) is also required.

Extended abstract must be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese, in WORD with 11 point Arial fonts, 1.5 cm between lines and 2.5 cm margins on 21.6 cm x 27.9 cm pages.

Submissions must be sent by electronic mail to MSc. Felipe Maldonado (Chairman of the X CLAIO) claio@quitel.cs.buap.mx

Datelines

a) All contributions should be sent no later than March 31, 2000.

b) The Program Committee will evaluate all contributions and inform authors on the result of evaluation after June 1st, 2000.

c) Only accepted papers by authors whose attendance is guaranteed will be published in the Congress Annals.

Information

Those interested in receiving further information should request it by electronic mail.

Pre-registered contributors, who send their full names and address will receive full information on the congress.

Information request: claio@quitel.cs.buap.mx