Dear friends and colleagues,
We are organizing the stream Telecommunications and Network
Optimization of the forthcoming EURO-INFORMS conference in Rome, July
1-4, 2013.
http://euro2013.org/
The stream is jointly organized by the European Network Optimization
Group (ENOG) and the Telecommunications Section of INFORMS.
If you would like to submit a paper for the stream, please visit
http://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro26/?page=welcome
and use invitation code
dd77dbd5
The deadline for abstract submission is March 1, 2013.
If (even better!) you would like to organize a full session of 3-4
papers, please contact one of us directly.
Best regards,
Walid Ben-Ameur, Bernard Fortz, Luis Gouveia
*YOUNGOR 18 - Call for Papers and Early bird booking open!*
*The Peter Chalk Centre, Exeter University 9, 10 and 11 April 2013*
YoungOR conferences are held every two years and provide a great
opportunity for anyone who has been involved in O.R. for ten years or less
to give a talk, make new contacts across the YoungOR community and continue
their professional development.
*Call for Papers: *Are you presenting, or would you like to present a
paper? *The on-line submission system is waiting for your Title and Abstract
*, so don’t delay.
Go to
http://www.theorsociety.com/Pages/Conferences/YOR18/YOR18Abstract.aspx as
soon as possible.
*Please Note:* The final deadline for your abstract to be submitted is 28
February 2013, however, if your abstract is submitted and Accepted before
31 January 2013, you can book online and qualify for the early bird reduced
booking rate.
All bookings received after 31 January 2013 will be charged at the
standard booking rate. So, we’d really like to hear from presenters
sooner.
*Booking and Payment: *The website is now live for bookings and payments
online. For the first time, the OR Society are pleased to offer the
YoungOR conference an early bird reduced booking rate.
However, for budgeting reasons, the deadline to qualify for this reduced
rate has to be no later than 31 January 2013. Therefore, if you are
presenting a paper, make sure your abstract has been submitted and
‘Accepted’ in time to take advantage of the reduced rate.
To book go to
http://www.theorsociety.com/Pages/Conferences/YOR18/YOR18BookInfo.aspx
With best regards,
Hilary Wilkes - hilary.wilkes(a)theorsociety.com
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College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences
University of Exeter
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Apologies for any cross-postings...
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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: Call for sessions, talks, and posters
MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 14-16, 2013
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The thirteenth annual Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and
Applications (MOPTA) Conference will be held at Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, PA, USA, on August 14-16 (Wednesday to Friday), 2013.
Confirmed plenary speakers (so far):
Brian Denton (University of Michigan)
Omar Ghattas (University of Texas at Austin)
Ignacio Grossmann (Carnegie Mellon University)
Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo (University of Minnesota)
Jorge Nocedal (Northwestern University)
This is an invitation for session organizers, contributed talks, and
posters. If interested, then please contact: Frank E. Curtis
<frank.e.curtis(a)lehigh.edu>
Current program information is available at: http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta
MOPTA aims at bringing together a diverse group of people from both
discrete and continuous optimization, working on both theoretical and
applied aspects. There will be a small number of invited plenary
talks from distinguished speakers as well as organized sessions and
contributed talks, spread over three days. Our target is to provide a
diverse set of exciting new developments from different areas of
optimization research while at the same time providing a setting which
will allow increased interaction among the participants. We aim to
bring together researchers from both the theoretical and applied
communities in the framework of a medium-scale event who do not
usually have the chance to interact in larger meetings.
We hope to welcome you in Bethlehem, PA!
Organizing Committee:
Frank E. Curtis (Chair)
Tamás Terlaky
Katya Scheinberg
Ted K. Ralphs
Luis F. Zuluaga
Robert H. Storer
Aurélie C. Thiele
Larry V. Snyder
Eugene Perevalov
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Lehigh University
200 W. Packer Ave.
Bethlehem PA 18015
Fax: 610-758-4886
YoungOR 18 - Call for Papers
*The Peter Chalk Centre, University of Exeter, 9 - 11 April 2013*
Antuela Tako
Are you interested in presenting at Young OR 18 or do you know someone who
is?
Young OR is a highly popular conference for academics and practitioners
within the first ten years of their careers in O.R. It provides an
excellent opportunity to learn about how O.R. and analytics are used in a
wide range of applications. The conference programme will include
plenaries, keynotes, workshops and parallel stream, as well as a full
social programme, where participants will have the opportunity to meet and
network with fellow academics and practitioners working in different
sectors and areas of O.R. One key feature that makes the Young OR
conference unique is that it provides participants a friendly and
supportive environment to present to peers, hence facilitating the sharing
of best practice.
Presentations are welcome on a range of O.R. topics and areas of
application including, but not limited to, the new and emerging area of
analytics, more conventional hard O.R. and soft O.R. methods as well as new
areas such as sustainability in O.R., O.R. in the third sector, and so on.
Application-oriented presentations and case studies in areas such as health
and defence are also welcome. For more information about the streams
available, please refer to the stream definitions at
www.theorsociety.com/yor18. If your talk does not fall into one of the
streams listed please contact the Conference Chair (Antuela Tako), or the
Programme Schedulers and Stream Co-ordinators (Tom O’Dell, Miles Weaver and
Vicky Forman)
At the first instance please contact one of the stream leaders to discuss
your paper and to register your interest, preferably by 1 November 2012. The
submission system is now open and presenters are invited to submit their
title and abstract via the YoungOR18 website (www.theorsociety.com/yor18),
as soon as possible. However, we are open to submissions until 28 February
2013.
Titles and abstracts should be phrased in an interesting way to attract
people to the presentation. These will appear in the conference handbook
given to all delegates, so long as at least one of the speakers has
registered and paid the relevant conference fee. Abstracts should not
contain mathematical symbols, graphs, tables, or references. It should
state if the paper is theoretical, practical, or a mix of the two as well
as indicate important methodological information and major results. Further
instructions for presenters can be found at:
http://www.theorsociety.com/Pages/Conferences/YOR18/YOR18Information.aspx.
Please submit your electronic title and abstract (300 words maximum) via Title
and Abstract - Submission/Status/Edit<http://www.theorsociety.com/Pages/Conferences/YOR18/YOR18Abstract.aspx>
Important Dates 01 October 2012 Title/abstract submission open (300
words max) 10 December 2012 *Early bird booking opens* 31 January
2013 Deadline for early bird bookings 01 February 2013 Standard
booking opens 28 February 2013 *Deadline for title and abstract
submission*** 08 March 2013 Receive notification of acceptance by
stream leaders 9-11 April 2013 Attend conference
We hope you will present a paper at the Young OR 18 or recommend it to
someone you know.
EWGLA XX SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS - Submission deadline: 18 January 2013
Dear colleagues,
This is the second announcement for the 20th EURO Working Group on
Locational Analysis Meeting, EWGLA XX, to be held in Ankara, Turkey on April
17-19, 2013. The conference will take place in the conference center of the
TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
More information regarding the conference can be found in the conference web
site: <http://www.ewgla2013.org> www.ewgla2013.org
We apologize for cross-posting.
Aims and Scope
The meeting intends to gather the operations research community from
different parts of the world to share experiences in the field of locational
analysis
We invite participation from all areas related to location theory including:
* network location,
* continuous location,
* discrete location,
* obnoxious location,
* competitive location,
* hub location,
* location-routing,
* advanced location models,
* location applications (logistics, network design),
* exact and heuristic solution methods.
Contributions are welcome from academia, industry or the public sector. In
addition to presentations, the meeting is intended to be a forum for
exchange of recent experiences and results.
A special issue will be devoted to recent developments on location analysis
in the journal Computers & Operations Research published by Elsevier.
Important Dates
· Abstract submission deadline: 18 January 2013, Friday
· Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2013, Friday
· Early registration: 8 March 2013, Friday
· Conference: 17-19 April 2013
Committees
Scientific Committee:
Sibel Alumur Alev - TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
(Co-Chair)
Giuseppe Bruno - University of Naples Federico II, Italy
James Campbell - University of Missouri St. Louis, United States
Emilio Carrizosa - University of Sevilla, Spain
H.A. Eiselt - University of New Brunswick, Canada
Erhan Erkut - Özyeğin University, Turkey
Elena Fernandez - University Politecnica de Cataluña, Spain
Ioannis Giannikos - University of Patras, Greece
Horst Hamacher - University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Mercedes Landete Ruiz - University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, Spain
Vladimir Marianov - Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
Alfredo Marin - University of Murcia, Spain
Stefan Nickel - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Justo Puerto - University of Sevilla, Spain
Francisco Saldanha da Gama - University of Lisbon, Portugal
Barbaros Tansel - Bilkent University, Turkey
Bahar Yetiş Kara - Bilkent University, Turkey (Co-Chair)
Local Committee:
Sibel Alumur Alev - TOBB University of Economics and Technology (Co-Chair)
Burçin Bozkaya - Sabancı University
Nilgün Fescioğlu Ünver - TOBB University of Economics and Technology
Oya Ekin Karaşan - Bilkent University
Gültekin Kuyzu - TOBB University of Economics and Technology
Haldün Süral - Middle East Technical University
Hünkar Toyoğlu - Bilkent University
Hande Yaman - Bilkent University
Bahar Yetiş Kara - Bilkent University (Co-Chair)
EWGLA Coordination Board:
Sibel Alumur Alev - TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
Ioannis Giannikos - University of Patras, Greece
Mercedes Landete Ruiz - University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, Spain
You can contact the conference secretariat regarding all the academic and
organizational issues by e-mailing to <mailto:info@ewgla2013.org>
info(a)ewgla2013.org.
*DEADLINE for submission EXTENDED to 10 December 2012.*
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Call for Papers: International Network Optimization Conference May 20-22,
2013 Tenerife, Spain
We invite you to join the next "International Network Optimization
Conference" (INOC 2013) to be held in Costa Adeje (Tenerife, Spain), May
20-22, 2013. It is the conference of the "European Network Optimization
Group" (ENOG), a working group of the "Association of Operational Research
Societies" (EURO). INOC is an international scientific conference that
provides a high quality forum for the presentation of mathematical models,
methodologies and computational results, and for the exchange of ideas and
scientific discussions on advanced applications and technologies in Network
Optimization and related problems.
Previous editions of INOC have taken place in:
* INOC 2011: Hamburg, Germany, June 13-16, 2011
* INOC 2009: Pisa, Italy, April 26-29, 2009
* INOC 2007: Spa, Belgium, April 22-25, 2007
* INOC 2005: Lisbon, Portugal, March 20-23, 2005
* INOC 2003: Paris, France, October 27-29, 2003
INOC 2013 is intended to be again a forum for researchers and practitioners
working in the area of Network Optimization and related problems. We invite
you to present your recent developments, both theoretical results and
applications, in the pleasant scenario of Tenerife Island.
Webpage: http://eventos.ull.es/inoc2013
NEW submission deadline: 10 December 2012