<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#000000"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px">Dear esteemed colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px">Warm greetings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt">At the outset, thanks to all of you for your help for the forthcoming </span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">I</span></span><span style="font-size:14pt">SMSI20, to be held in Thimphu, Bhutan. Hope to meet many of you there </span><a href="http://www.ismsi.org/com.html" target="_blank" style="color:blue;font-size:14pt"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">http://www.ismsi.org</span></span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px">Looking ahead,  am pleased to announce that <b>2021 <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">I</span></span>SMSI</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> would be held </span></span>in <b>Victoria, Seychelles</b>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Euro (The Association of European Operational Research Societies) & EU/ME </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">(working group of Metaheuristics of the same) had extended tech. sponsorship for the same.</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px">The preliminary leaflet of the same is forwarded below.   </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px"> Pls. help by disseminating the same among your peers. Apart from <b>ACM published proceedings</b>, scope also exists for a selected/shortlisted et of authors to publish the extended version of their manuscripts at the <b>EJOR journal</b> (as indicated at the leaflet).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px"> Best rgds,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px"> Suash</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.8667px;fon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