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THIRD 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:
Brian Denton (University of Michigan)
Abhijit Deshmukh (Purdue University)
Omar Ghattas (University of Texas at Austin)
Ignacio Grossmann (Carnegie Mellon University)
Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo (University of Minnesota)
Jorge Nocedal (Northwestern University)
Henry Wolkowicz (University of Waterloo)
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>
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 14, 2013.
Current conference and 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
Call for Papers
Computers & Operations Research
Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Location Analysis"
Guest Editors: Sibel A. Alumur, Bahar Y. Kara
The subjects of interest within location analysis are of many kinds,
centering on the optimal choice of locations for one or more facilities,
within any framework (the classical settings being discrete, network, and
planar) in a way that optimizes a certain objective such as minimizing
transportation costs, providing equitable service to customers, capturing
the largest market share, etc. Many other fields have direct connections
with location analysis, either by subject such as transportation and
routing, supply chain management, environmental studies, layout and design,
data and cluster analysis, or as techniques, like mathematical (linear,
integer, non-linear, convex, global, ...) programming, multi-criteria
analysis, approximation theory, computational geometry, statistics, etc.
Recently, there have been several new developments in location analysis. The
aim of this special issue is to collect high quality papers that address
recent advances in theory, practice and application. Potential topics
include, but are not limited to:
* network location,
* continuous location,
* discrete location,
* obnoxious location,
* competitive location,
* hub location,
* location-routing,
* location applications (logistics, network design),
* exact and heuristic solution methods.
Researchers from all relevant disciplines are invited to consider this
special issue as an outlet to publish their high quality work on the topic.
Submission Guidelines:
All manuscripts should be submitted electronically via the Elsevier
Editorial System (EES) <http://ees.elsevier.com/cor>
http://ees.elsevier.com/cor. Corresponding author must select Special Issue:
Recent Advances in Location Analysis as the Article Type to make sure that
the paper will be considered for the special issue.
Important Dates:
The deadline for submission to the special issue is October 1, 2013. The
plan is to publish the special issue in early 2015.
Guest Editors:
Sibel A. Alumur
Department of Industrial Engineering
TOBB University of Economics and Technology
Ankara, Turkey
e-mail: <mailto:salumur@etu.edu.tr> salumur(a)etu.edu.tr
Bahar Y. Kara
Department of Industrial Engineering
Bilkent University
Ankara, Turkey
e-mail: <mailto:bkara@bilkent.edu.tr> bkara(a)bilkent.edu.tr