FOURTH COLOMBIAN CONGRESS ON OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND COMPUTER SCIENCES.

This article presents information about the 4th Colombian Congress on Operations Research and Computer Sciences, held in Bogota, Colombia, from October 30 to November 2, 1974. The congress, reportedly, was organized by the computer center of the University of Los Andes and the Colombian Association of Computer Science and Operations Research. A total of 32 technical papers were presented there which covered different computer sciences and operations research topics such as: linear programming and aggregated planning, mathematical programming applied to hydroelectric project planning, information retrieval, virtual storage, and the location-allocation problem. The congress gathered about 300 professionals in the computer sciences and operations research fields, who came from different regions of the country.