Italian Operations Research Society

AIRO was created in 1961[3] with the aim of promoting the development of Operations Research and mathematical programming in Italy, both from a methodological point and an applied research point of views. The recognition of the role and the professional qualification of the operation researchers and the promotion of relationships between operations researchers, inside and outside Italy, are strategic goals of AIRO.

Since 1961 the society has had the following presidents:

• Benedetto Barberi (1961-1970)
• Armando Corso (1971-1975)
• Bruno Martinoli (1976-1982)
• Massimo Merlino (1983-1988)
• Paolo Toth (1989-1995)
• Giorgio Gallo (1996-2001)
• Roberto Tadei (2002-2006)
• Renato De Leone (2007-2011)
• Anna Sciomachen (2012-2015)
• Daniele Vigo (2016-2019)
• Dario Pacciarelli (2020-)

AIRO is governed by a president, four-year term, which manages the association with the Council, consisting of about 15 councilors elected by the assembly of the members: 12 elected members, the President, and for one year the President Elect. Among the elected member the council chooses one or two vice presidents, a treasurer and a secretary. On a proposal of the members, within AIRO some thematic sections can be formed, based on either geographical or methodological and application affinity. The headquarters of AIRO is at the Institute of system analysis and informatics “Antonio Ruberti” (IASI, CNR) in Rome.

Currently (2020), AIRO has about 250 members – individuals (professors and researches from university and research institutions and professionals) and institutions from academia, industry and administration.

Jointly with the Belgian Society for Operations Research and the French Operations Research Society, AIRO publishes 4OR - A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research,[4] in which methodological and applied papers are published as well as surveys on relevant topics in the field of operations research. The society's publisher is Springer. The 2015 Impact Factor of the journal is 1.371.

The AIRO Springer Series,[5] started in 2018, publishes contributed volumes resulting from conferences and other activities carried out by AIRO.

From 1970 to 2002, AIRO was responsible for the publication of the scientific journal Ricerca Operativa.[6]

Since 2005 AIRO is federated with two national societies in the mathematics area, SIMAI and AMASES, into the FIMA (Italian Federation of Applied Mathematics). From the beginning of 2014 AIRO is involved in the Maddmaths project, a web-site finalized to the dissemination of mathematical education. In particular, AIRO collaborates in the preparation of informative articles, sent via email as madd-letters to interested people.

Once a year in September, AIRO organizes the international conference ODS (Optimization and Decision Sciences), attended by about 200 participants. In addition, the AIROYOUNG chapter of AIRO organizes a winter workshop, usually in February, attended by about 70 participants.

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