RAJIVE GANGULI / JAMI GIRARD DWYER
APCOM is a forum for industrial and research communities working in the mineral industry to share and stimulate the application of computer and operations research technology. The 32nd International Symposium on the Application of Computers and Operations Research in the Mineral Industry, held on March 30th - April 1st, 2005, in Tucson, Arizona, USA, will return to APCOM's origin at the University of Arizona and will showcase the state-of-the-art of industrial applications and emerging technology. APCOM, since its origins in the 1960s, has been heralded as the World's premier conference for computer applications and operations research in the mineral industry. It is a respected peer-reviewed publication that covers a wide array of topics ranging from geostatistics to data warehousing.