Hervé Thiriez Professor SIAD (Systčmes d'Information et d'Aide ŕ la Décision) departmentPh.D. (MIT)Ingénieur IMAGResearch and teaching interests : Management Science, Risk Analysis and Modeling. Professor Thiriez is also the O.R. editor of the European Journal of Operations Research and has, as a consultant, developed models for many businesses (recently, for Electricité de France, Elf Aquitaine and Ernst & Young). He is the author of 24 books and more than 400 papers or articles, the majority of which deal with modeling and/or micro-computing. Professor Thiriez is also the CEO of Logma SA, a consulting firm.