TRISTAN VI (2007) : TRISTAN

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The 6th edition took place June 10-15, 2007, in Phuket Island, Thailand.

Professor Michel Bierlaire, Chairman of the conference, recalls the rollercoaster series of events that led up to holding TRISTAN VI in Thailand on Phuket Island:

« The decision to go to Sri Lanka was made during TRISTAN V, in Guadeloupe, in 2004. On December 26, 2004, the tsunami wiped out Sri Lanka, as well as Indonesia, Thailand, and many other countries.

Pitu and I visited Sri Lanka in Spring 2005 (March, I think) and we met with local officials from the government, and local professors from the university. We identified a venue for the conference (in Moratuwa, close to Columbo) and a local support for the logistics.

In 2006, the war between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers became very violent, with many casualties, including in Columbo. Needless to say, we decided that it was not safe to organize the conference there.

Therefore, we had to organize again the conference. It was decided to go to Thailand. And we have selected the Meridien Hotel in Phuket as a venue. It was announced to the community on September 19, 2006. The very same day, a coup d’état took place in Thailand.

Fortunately, the political situation in Thailand calmed down, and we could organize the conference in Phuket in June. »

Organizing Committee

Michel Bierlaire École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland	Carolina Osorio École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr. Matteo Salani École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland	Marianne Ruegg École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Pitu Mirchandani University of Arizona, USA.	Otto Nielsen Technical University of Denmark
Martin Savelsbergh Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Scientific Committee

Saman Bandara University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.	Cynthia Barnhart Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
Jaime Barcelo Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain.	John Beasley Brunel University, UK.
David Boyce Northwestern University, USA.	Teodor Gabriel Crainic Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.
Paolo Dell’Olmo Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy.	Jacques Desrosiers HEC Montréal, Canada.
Chanaka Edirisinghe University of Tennessee, USA.	Michael Florian Université de Montréal, Canada.
Michel Gendreau Université de Montréal, Canada.	Maria Grazia Speranza Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy.
Martin Hazelton Massey University, New Zealand.	Anton Kleywegt Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
Haris N. Koutsopoulos Northeastern University, USA.	Erhan Kozan Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Amal Kumarage University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.	Martine Labbé Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Gilbert Laporte HEC Montréal, Canada.	Jean-Patrick Lebacque Inst. National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité, France.
Der-Horng Lee National University of Singapore.	Jean-Baptiste Lesort Inst. National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité, France.
Janny Leung The Chinese University of Hong Kong.	Henry Liu University of Minnesota.
Hong K. Lo Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.	Oli B. G. Madsen Technical University of Denmark.
Hani Mahmassani University of Maryland, USA.	Takayuki Morikawa Nagoya University, Japan.
Amedeo Odoni Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.	Markos Papageorgiou Technical University of Crete, Greece.
Michael Patriksson Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.	Amalia Polydoropoulou University of the Aegean, Greece.
Warren B. Powell Princeton University, USA.	Frédéric Semet Université de Valenciennes, France.
Marius Solomon Northeastern University, USA.	Philippe Toint Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Belgium.
Paolo Toth Università di Bologna, Italy.	Joan Walker Boston University, USA.
Chandana Wirasinghe University of Calgary, Canada.

Local Organizing Committee

Prof. Der-Horng Lee, National University of Singapore (chairman)
Prof. Direk Lavansiri, dean of the Department of Civil Engineering, Chulalongkorn University
Prof. Manoj Lohatepanont, Chulalongkorn University
Dr. Proadpran Punyabukkana, Chulalongkorn University
Prof. Sorawit Narupiti, Chulalongkorn University

Plenary speakers

Moshe Ben-Akiva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hybrid Choice Models: From Static to Dynamic
George Nemhauser, Georgia Institute of technology, Scheduling On-demand Air Transportation
Piet H. L. Bovy, Delft University of Technology, Route Choice Set Generation: a Preliminary Synthesis