Rudolfovo co-organizer of the international symposium SOR'25

Between September 24 and 26, 2025, the 18th International Symposium on Operations Research in Slovenia – SOR'25 – took place in Bled, once again bringing together researchers, experts, and business representatives from the fields of operations research, artificial intelligence, optimization, data analytics, and related disciplines.

The event was co-organized by the Slovenian INFORMATIKA Association, the Faculty of Organizational Sciences at the University of Maribor, and Rudolfovo – Science and Technology Centre Novo mesto.

Contributions by Rudolfovo researchers

Rudolfovo researchers actively participated in the symposium with four scientific contributions:

1. O. Bihani, J. Povh, D. Pucher: On QUBO Relaxations to the Sparsest k-Subgraph Problem

2. A. Krpan, J. Povh: Kernelization-Based Iterative Refinement of Upper Bounds for Maximum Clique Problem

3. J. Žerovnik: On 2-Domination and 2-Rainbow Domination of Cylindrical Graphs

4. O. Bihani, J. Povh, J. Žerovnik: Towards a Randomized Algorithm for Estimating the Chromatic Number of a Graph

A collection of peer-reviewed contributions and abstracts of lectures presented at the symposium is available on the official website of the event:🔗 Zbornik SOR’25

Photos from the event can be viewed at the following link:🔗 SOR’25 Highlights (Source of photos: SOR25)

The next SOR’27 symposium is scheduled for September 22-24, 2027.