About us

Objectives

• To increase knowledge and raise capacity in the use of OR among students, academic faculty members, policy-makers and private sector stakeholders, for both academic and practical purposes in the network countries
• To learn how to apply OR to specific challenges for supporting government, private industry, and other stakeholders in Southeast Asia to achieve their goals for sustainable development, including resolution of social and environmental challenges.
• To raise awareness of OR and its benefits to a wide range of sectors.
• To serve as a platform for Early Career Researchers and other OR people to meet, learn, and provide mutual support.
• To develop research capacity for developing OR solutions and applications to the Southeast Asian context.
• To develop the OR research journal for South East Asia communities.
• To promote and support the establishment of national OR communities and societies in Southeast Asia, and thereby strengthen the Asia-Pacific Region of OR Societies of IFORS
• Strengthen co-operations among members via research or application projects, exchange activities including delegation visit, scholar exchange, tutorials, student exchange, meeting, conference, seminar.