The 5th edition of the Winter School on Network Optimization will take place at the Hotel Sana, Estoril, from the 11th to the 15th of January 2016. Its main objective is to provide an opportunity for PhD students to get together and attend high level courses in the field of Network Optimization. Non-PhD students are welcome to attend the school, but the number of participants is limited and priority will be given to PhD students. In this edition of the school, the lecturers and subjects to be addressed are:
Karen Aardal (Univ. Delft): Algorithms for facility location problems
Tolga Bektas (Univ. Southampton): Compact formulations, projections and some polyhedral results for the vehicle routing problem
Elena Fernandez (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya): Hub location and optimum communication spanning trees: models, formulations and solution techniques
Martine Labbé (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles): Bilevel programming: Stackelberg games and pricing problems
Ivana Ljubic (Univ. Vienna): Solving (uniform) Steiner trees and related problems to optimality
Since the first edition in 2009, the school has been part of the activities of the CIO (Centro de Investigação Operacional) University of Lisbon as well as of the ENOG (European Network Optimization Group).
Recently, CIO has been merged with the Centro de Matemática e Aplicações Fundamentais (CMAF). The event will become part of the activities of the new CMAF+CIO and is also endorsed by the EURO (the Association of European Societies)
and APDIO (the Portuguese OR society).
Candidates are invited to submit their CVs to NetOpt2016(a)fc.ul.pt<mailto:NetOpt2016@fc.ul.pt> before the 30th of October 2015.
After a short period of evaluation, the participants will be notified and be invited to register.
More information is available at http://NetOpt2016.fc.ul.pt<http://netopt2016.fc.ul.pt/>.
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EU/ME 2016
Workshop on "Design and Analysis of Metaheuristics"
March 17 - 18, 2016
University of Antwerp (Belgium)
www.eume2016.be<http://www.eume2016.be>
CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Antwerp Operations Research Group ANT/OR is looking forward to welcome you at the 17th EU/ME workshop on Design and Analysis of Metaheuristics.The conference will be held on March 17th - 18th, 2016 in Antwerp (Belgium).
We invite all researchers, practitioners, and students from the field of metaheuristics, to participate in this EU/ME-workshop. Authors are encouraged to contribute by submitting an extended abstract (max. 3 pages). We are especially looking for research in all fields of methodology and applications with a focus on best practices in design of metaheuristics. Furthermore, we encourage research that includes (but is not limited to) a proper analysis of the algorithmic performance, parameter tuning, the setup of a good experiment, ... The main questions of this EU/ME workshop will be:
- What is a good metaheuristic design?
- Which metaheuristic framework to use?
- How to make the developed solution approach robust, reliable and efficient?
- What with parameters in the model and how to tune them?
Important dates for submission and registration to the conference are:
Abstract submission: Friday, February 5, 2016.
Abstract acceptance: Friday, February 12, 2016.
Registration: Friday, March 4, 2016.
Conference: March 17-18, 2016.
For more information, registration or abstract submission, go to the conference website:
http://www.eume2016.be
We look forward to meeting you in Antwerp, on 17 and 18 March 2016. May the force be with you!
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drs. Christof Defryn
University of Antwerp
Faculty of Applied Economics | Dept. Engineering Management - ENM
ANT/OR - University of Antwerp Operations Research Group
Prinsstraat 13 - B.512
B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium
christof.defryn(a)uantwerpen.be<mailto:christof.defryn@uantwerpen.be>
http://antor.ua.ac.be/member/christof-defryn
Dear friends and colleagues,
We are organizing the stream Telecommunications and Network Optimization
of the forthcoming EURO Conference that will be held 3-63-63-6 July 2016 in
the city of Poznan, Poland.
http://euro2016.euro-online.org/
The stream is organized by the European Network Optimization
Group (ENOG).
If you would like to submit a paper for the stream, please visit
https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro28/
and use invitation code
df18ec88
The deadline for abstract submission is March 1, 2016.
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
SECOND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
VEROLOG 2016
The fifth meeting of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and
Logistics Optimization - VeRoLog
*Nantes, France, June 6-8 *
http://verolog2016.sciencesconf.org/
The fifth meeting of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and
Logistics Optimization will take place at the Mines Nantes Graduate
School of Engineering, in Nantes 6-8 June 2016.
The VeRoLog conference is an annual meeting bringing together the large
community of researchers and practitioners interested in vehicle routing
optimization and its relationship with logistics. The conference is open
to high quality methodological contributions, relevant real-world
applications, and case studies from industry and the service sector.
*Abstract submission *
To participate, an abstract of 1/3 page (max. 250 words) must be
submitted electronically via the link "Submissions". Accepted abstracts
with a registered presenter will be included in the book of abstracts.
At most one presentation per registered participant will be accepted.
All selected abstracts will be presented within parallel sessions during
the conference. A list of relevant topics for the conference is given
below.
Selected high quality papers will be included in special issues of
international journals edited after the conference.
*Keynote speakers *
Michael Hewitt (Loyola University Chicago)
Recent advances in service network design
Stefan Ropke (Technical University of Denmark)
10 years of Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search (ALNS)
*Organizing committee *
Christelle Guéret (University of Angers, LARIS)
Fabien Lehuédé (Mines Nantes, IRCCyN)
Jorge E. Mendoza (Polytech Tours, LI)
Olivier Péton (Mines Nantes, IRCCyN)
Marc Sevaux (University of South Brittany, LabSTICC)
*Important dates *
Jan 06, 2016: submission deadline
March 01, 2016: acceptance notification
April 01, 2016: camera ready submission deadline
April 15, 2016: early bird registration closes
May 18, 2016: registration closes
*Registration *
Early student: 250 euros
Late Student: 350 euros
Early regular: 350 euros
Late regular: 450 euros
The fee includes lunch and coffee breaks, the social program and
conference dinner.
*Follow us on Facebook and Twitter: *
http://www.facebook.com/verolog2016http://www.twitter.com/verolog2016
*Research topics include but are not limited to: *
+ Decision support systems in logistics
+ State-of-the-art methods for exact solution of routing and
logistic optimization problems
+ Innovative methods for heuristic solutions of routing and
logistics optimization problems
+ Planning tools and tool-based environments for routing and logistics
+ Design and management of logistic infrastructure and networks
+ Analysis and evaluation of environmental impact induced by
logistics (e.g., air and noise pollution)
+ Sustainable design and operation of logistic facilities
+ Integrated planning and control of logistic infrastructures
+ Analysis of logistic operations
+ Heuristic and meta-heuristic implementation in logistic-related
models
+ ERP and information systems-related applications in logistics
+ Geographic information systems related to routing and logistics
+ On-board navigation and positioning systems
+ Dynamic routing optimization
+ Strategies and operations of logistic service providers
+ Service integration of agents or carriers within the logistics
industry
+ Consolidation and distribution for agents or shippers within the
logistics industry
+ Cooperation in intermodal supply chains
+ Fleet management