@article{5401a6d81760447fb1fc63c1e65d7ff1,
title = "Foreword",
author = "{de Werra}, Dominique and Endre Boros and Jacques Carlier and Alain Hertz and Marino Widmer",
note = "Funding Information: Finally, we would like to express our thanks to the various organizations and institutions that have supported this colloquium; we are grateful that the Etat du Valais has honored us by delegating Mr. Claude Roch, the minister of education of the Canton, to welcome the participants in Leukerbad. The generous support of the ASRO (Swiss Operational Research Society), of the FNS (Swiss National Research Council), and of the 3e cycle romand de recherche op{\'e}rationnelle is gratefully acknowledged. Besides this the Tourist Office of Leukerbad is also to be thanked for its support in fluid logistics. Finally, we express our gratitude to the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique F{\'e}d{\'e}rale de Lausanne) and to the University of Fribourg for their contributions in terms of human resources among other things.",
year = "2008",
month = jul,
day = "6",
doi = "10.1016/j.dam.2008.04.019",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "156",
pages = "2437--2438",
journal = "Discrete Applied Mathematics",
issn = "0166-218X",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "13",
}