The French Operations Research & Decision Support Society (in French: Société française de Recherche Opérationnelle et d’Aide à la Décision - ROADEF) is a professional non-profit society that aims to promote the scientific field of Operations Research (OR) and Decision Support (DS) in France.
Its mission is to encourage the development of operational research and decision support in France, to disseminate OR/DS knowledge and practices in industry, and to promote their teaching in education.
Founding members of ROADEF included Denis Bouyssou, Jacques Carlier, Philippe Chrétienne, Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès, Dominique Fortin, Xavier Gandibleux, Nelson Maculan Filho, Ali Ridha Mahjoub, Gérard Plateau, Jean-Charles Pomerol, Marie-Claude Portmann, Christian Proust, Catherine Roucairol, Bernard Roy, as well as some OR/DS research laboratories - LAMIH (Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis), Lamsade (Université Paris-Dauphine) - and some companies practicing OR/DS - Bouygues, Eurodecision, Gaz de France, SNCF.
Previous presidents included François Clautiaux, Aziz Moukrim, Sourour Elloumi, Frédéric Gardi, Nadia Brauner, Francis Sourd, Olivier Hudry, Jean-Charles Billaut, Marie-Christine Costa, Arnaud Fréville, Denis Bouyssou, Marie-Claude Portmann.
[5] International research teams compete to solve at best a real-world optimization problem provided by a business company.