Conference History

Conference History

Methods and Tools for Decision Support (MOAD) series of conferences has a long history. MOAD conference inception was the result of the passion and commitment of a group of researchers eager to put high-performance application tools at the service of the national economy.

The first  edition, MOAD’1992, was open to economic operators and was organized by the University of Bejaia, Algeria. Its scientific and application outputs were published by Bejaia University and worldwide disseminated via the report published by the journal MATAPLI of the SMAI (French Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics), n° 35, 1993, pp. 71 – 72].  The next two editions are MOAD’2000, organized by the University of Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria, and MOAD’2004, organized by Saïda University, Algeria. The organization of the last two editions, MOAD’2007 and MOAD’2022, was back to Bejaia University.  According to the organizers, this is due to the need to evaluate the progress and body of knowledge presented in the previous editions and to draw new perspectives and orientations for the conference considering the economic changes, new developments in technology and mathematical methods for decision-making at local and global levels.