THE NEW DEVELOPMENT TREND OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH IN CIVIL ENGINEERING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AS A RESULT OF COLLABORATION BETWEEN GERMAN–LITHUANIAN–POLISH SCIENTIFIC TRIANGLE 德国-立陶宛波兰科学三角合作成果在土木工程运筹学中的新发展趋势及可持续发展.pdf

Journal of Business Economics and Management www.jbem.vgtu.lt 2010, 11(2): 316–340 THE NEW DEVELOPMENT TREND OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH IN CIVIL ENGINEERING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AS A RESULT OF COLLABORATION BETWEEN GERMAN–LITHUANIAN–POLISH SCIENTIFIC TRIANGLE 1 2 3 Jolanta Tamošaitienė , Lina Bartkienė , Tatjana Vilutienė Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Saulėtekio ave. 11, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania 1 2 3 E-mails: jolanta.tamosaitiene@vgtu.lt ; lina.bartkiene@vgtu.lt; tatjana.vilutiene@vgtu.lt Received 26 November 2009; accepted 12 March 2010 Abstract. In this article the scientific cooperation between the three academic centres from Germany, Lithuania and Poland, represented by Prof. F. Peldschus (Leipzig Uni- versity of Applied Sciences), Prof. E. K. Zavadskas (Vilnius Gediminas Technical Uni- versity), and Prof. O. Kapliński (Poznan University of Technology), is presented. Formal meetings have been called Colloquia, and were organized every two years in different academic centres. The research achievements and activities during the period of 2007-2009 are presented. The main research fields of OR in Civil Engineering and Sustainable Development of three academic centres are surveyed. As a result of productive collaboration in the period between the 11th and 12th Colloquiums, several postdoctoral theses and doctoral disser- tations were defended, research papers and books were published and conferences were organized with published proceedings, etc. On the basis of these achievements EURO Working Group OR in Sustainable Development and Civil Engineering (EWG-ORSDCE) was establish