GENERAL INFORMATION. The main goal of this series of workshops is to provide a meeting point where scientists and technicians in the field can find a discussion forum to promote research and encourage interaction and exchange of ideas. Topics for the 6th WRQ include, but are not limited to Analytical Innovations, Approximations and Computational Methods, Control and Statistical Inference and Applications.

In this edition, the 6th WRQ is organized as a satellite workshop of the Second Madrid Conference on Queueing Theory (http://www.mat.ucm.es/~mcqt/confe06/conf06.html).

Click here, for a preliminary booklet including the program schedule and general information about the workshop.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

J.R. Artalejo (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain), Co-chairman
I. Atencia (University of Málaga, Spain)
P.P. Bocharov (Peoples' Friendship University, Russia)
B.D. Choi (Korea University, Korea)
A.N. Dudin (Belarus State University, Belarus)
A. Economou (University of Athens, Greece)
A. Gómez-Corral (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain), Chairman
A. Krishnamoorthy (Cochin University of Science and Technology, India)
R.D. Nobel (Vrije University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)


PARTICIPANTS. Here is a list of participants who are confirmed their attendance (click here).


CALL FOR PAPERS. A selection of original, high quality contributions will be published in the special issue "Advances in Retrial Queues" of the European Journal of Operational Research. Both theoretical/methodological and application-oriented articles are welcome. Articles submitted to this special issue will be refereed following the usual standards of all major international journals.

Manuscripts should be prepared according to the Guide for Authors that can be found at http://www.authors.elsevier.com/gfa/ejor. They should be written in English and typed on one side of the paper in double or one-and-a-half line spacing throughout, with wide margins, not exceeding 22 printed pages.

Deadline for submissions: May 1st, 2006.

We strongly encourage authors to send submissions via email in electronic form (pdf, postcript) to the email addresses of the editors: jesus_artalejo@mat.ucm.es and antonio_gomez@mat.ucm.es


REGISTRATION FORM AND ABSTRACT SUBMISSION. If you plan to attend the 6th WRQ, please fill the joint registration form for the MCQT'06 conference and the 6th WRQ, and write your abstracts for both events. Then send the file via email to our address

    mc_qt@mat.ucm.es

We appreciate very much your prompt response.

Registration and abstract forms (click here).


IMPORTANT DATES

March 10, 2006: Deadline for abstract submissions and registration forms.
April 1, 2006: Acceptance notification.
May 1, 2006: Deadline for payment of the MCQT'06 and 6th WRQ fees and deadline for paper submissions to the special issue of EJOR.
July 8: First day of the 6th WRQ.      


REGISTRATION FEE. The 6th WRQ fee is 240 EURO for the participants and 210 EURO for their accompanying persons. This fee covers the booklet of abstracts, full accommodation at the residence "La Cristalera" (conference venue), travel expenses Madrid-conference venue-Madrid and a visit to Segovia.

Those persons desirous of participating in the MCQT'06 and the 6th WRQ should add the registration fee of both events and send the resulting amount by any of the methods of payment described at the website of the MCQT'06 conference (click here).


CONFERENCE VENUE. The meeting will take place at a conference and residence hall called "La Cristalera", at 2 Km. from Miraflores de la Sierra, a small village located 50 Km. north of Madrid. All the participants and their accompanying persons will be accommodated in this residence. This means that all participants and accompanying persons are kindly invited to travel from Madrid to the conference venue by bus in the morning of July 8. Talks will start on July 8 in the afternoon. A visit to Segovia is planned on July 10. Since the returning travel to Madrid will be late in the afternoon, we encourage the participants to book a room at any hotel in Madrid for the night of July 10.

If you wish to visit La Cristalera website (in Spanish), please click here.


CONTACT ADDRESS. Questions can be directed to Antonio Gómez-Corral and Jesus R. Artalejo at the email address mc_qt@mat.ucm.es

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