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EURO-INFORMS Rome - Telecommunications and Network Optimization stream
by Bernard Fortz 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

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

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YOUNGOR 18 - Call for Papers and Early bird booking open!
by Ibrahim küçükkoç 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

*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 -- *Ibrahim Kucukkoc* Exeter Manufacturing Enterprise Centre College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences University of Exeter EX4 4QF Exeter / UK http://w3.balikesir.edu.tr/~ikucukkoc *P Please consider the environment before printing this email.* -- *Ibrahim Kucukkoc* PhD Student Exeter Manufacturing Enterprise Centre College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences University of Exeter EX4 4QF Exeter / UK http://w3.balikesir.edu.tr/~ikucukkoc *P Please consider the environment before printing this email.*

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MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 14-16, 2013: Invitation to organize sessions, etc.
by Frank E. Curtis 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

Apologies for any cross-postings... ============================================== FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: Call for sessions, talks, and posters MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 14-16, 2013 ============================================== 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

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YoungOR 18 - Call for Papers
by Ibrahim küçükkoç 07 Dec '12

07 Dec '12

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.

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EWGLA XX SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
by Sibel Alumur Alev 05 Dec '12

05 Dec '12

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.

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INOC2013. Deadline extension Dec 10
by Juan Jose Salazar Gonzalez 02 Dec '12

02 Dec '12

*DEADLINE for submission EXTENDED to 10 December 2012.* ------------ 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

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Postdoc Position in Service Network Design
by Shahin Gelareh 30 Nov '12

30 Nov '12

The LGI2A, Laboratory of Computer Science and Control Systems of University of Artois (Bethune, North of France) is seeking to fill a postdoctoral position in: *“Service Network Design in Supply Chain Systems”* for a 12 month contract to be filled as soon as possible. Successful candidate will perform research on models of capacitated multi-commodity flow, routing and location and develop mathematical models and efficient solution methods for real-life industrial applications (exact methods and heuristic approaches). The salary will be around 2,000 euro per month (only roughly). The research will be carried out in the group of “Systems Optimization” of LGI2A led by Prof. Gilles Goncalves. LGI2A (www.lgi2a.univ-artois.fr/) offers a strong scientific support, a friendly environment and collaborative international environment. Several international/EU industrial/research projects at LGI2A permit students and researchers to be in the middle of research collaboration and help them to extend their network to their counterparts at other universities, academic institutes and industries to develop their future career. Several meetings and plenary seminars will offer opportunity to students and researchers to communicate and benefit from the others latest research results. Bethune is a beautiful city located at the North of France (40 minutes North of Lille) in a very calm and quiet North-Western European region. It will take 1 hour going to Brussels, 2 hour from London and 70 minutes to Paris by TGV trains. Candidates must hold a PhD degree (or about to defend within a month) or equivalent in computer science, mathematics or a related area and should have a solid knowledge of mixed integer programming, excellent programming skills, experience in decomposition methods (primal and dual), metaheuristics, and algorithms. Other skills such as knowledge in probability theory and stochastic programming are beneficial. Good communication skills and solid English writing skills are mandatory. Knowledge of French is not required, but successful candidates will be encouraged to learn some basics. Often there has been free French course offered to researchers and their family members by the University of Lille du Nord. Interested applicants should send their application containing - cover and motivation letter - curriculum vitae - copies of PhD degree or attestation of defense from university - summary of PhD thesis (English, about 1 pages) - names and email addresses of at least two referees, including the thesis adviser - candidate may choose to also provide complete thesis and any other scientific publications Applicants are invited to submit the application by respecting the deadline of 10 December 2012 to: Prof. Gilles Goncalves *Gilles.Goncalves(a)univ-artois.fr* and Dr. Shahin Gelareh *Shahin.Gelareh(a)univ-artois.fr* if you have any questions regarding the positions or your application, please do not hesitate to contact the aforementioned emails (emails should be destined to both). Please put “*[SGGG2012postdoc]*” in your email subjects.

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PhD position announcement
by Shahin Gelareh 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Dear colleagues Thank you for disseminating this announcement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The LGI2A, Laboratory of Computer Science and Control Systems of University of Artois (Bethune, North of France) is seeking to fill a PhD position in Operations Research. The PhD position will be co-funded by the University of Artois, French Ministry of Science and/or the Nord-Pas de Calais region (France) under the title of: “*Service Network Design in Supply Chain Systems”* to be supervised by Prof. Gilles Goncalves and Assoc. Prof. Shahin Gelareh at LGI2A. The PhD is expected to start on October 2013. Successful candidate will perform research on models of routing and location and develop mathematical models and efficient solution methods for real-life industrial applications. The position is for 36 months and a net salary of “approximately” 1450 euro per month. As the position is co-funded by the university there might be some minor teaching involved. The research will be carried out in the group of “Systems Optimization” of LGI2A led by Prof. Gilles Goncalves. LGI2A (www.lgi2a.univ-artois.fr/) offers a strong scientific support, a friendly environment and collaborative international environment. Several international/EU industrial/research projects at LGI2A permit student to be in the middle of research collaboration and help them to extend their networks to their counterparts at other universities and other academic institutes and industries and invest in developing future career. Several meetings and plenary seminars will offer opportunity to students and researchers to communicate and benefit from the other’s latest research results. Bethune is located at the North of France (40 minutes North of Lille) in a very calm and quiet city North-Western European city. It will take 1 hour going to Brussels, 1 hour from London and 70 minutes to Paris by fast-lane TGV trains. Candidates must hold a master's degree (or equivalent) in computer science, mathematics or a related area and should have a very good knowledge of mixed integer programming, decomposition methods, metaheuristics, and algorithms. Other skills such as knowledge in probability theory as well as programming skills are beneficial. Good communication skills and solid English writing skills are mandatory. Knowledge of French is not required, but successful candidates will be encouraged to learn some basics. Interested applicants should send their application containing - cover and motivation letter - curriculum vitae - copies of diplomas - summary of master/diploma thesis (English, about 1 pages) - names and email addresses of at least two referees, including the thesis adviser - candidate may choose to also provide complete thesis and any other scientific publications Applicants are invited to submit the application by respecting the deadline of 31 February 2013 to: Prof. Gilles Goncalves *Gilles.Goncalves(a)univ-artois.fr* and Dr. Shahin Gelareh *Shahin.Gelareh(a)univ-artois.fr* if you have any questions regarding the positions or your application, please do not hesitate to contact the supervisors. Please put “*[SGGG2013]*” in your application email subjects.

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INOC2013, Tenerife 20-22 May 2013
by Juan Jose Salazar Gonzalez 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Deadline approaching! ------------ 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 Submission deadline: 1st December 2012

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Call for paper : special session of "Optimization problems in Wireless sensor networks" at the ROADEF 2013
by cynthia santos 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Our apologies if you receive duplicates of this posting. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for paper "Optimization problems in Wireless sensor networks" (Optimisation dans les réseaux de capteurs sans fil) Special session at the 14th ROADEF (Conférence de la société Française de Recherche Opérationnelle et Aide à la Décision). In this session, we look for contributions on WSN optimization problems such as solutions for emergent optimization problems in WSN, heuristics, metaheuristics, matheuristics, hybrid methods, modelling (explicitly or implicitly) and optimizing energy consumption in WSN, multiobjective strategies, etc. Extended abstract (2 pages) can be submitted in English or French until Nov 15th, 2012. The ROADEF 2013 takes place in Troyes, Fev 13-15, 2013. For more information, please access the site : http://roadef2013.utt.fr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers: Andréa C. Santos Duhamel, ICD-LOSI, Université de Technologie de Troyes, Troyes, France. André Rossi, Lab-STICC, Université de Bretagne-Sud,Lorient, France. Marc Sevaux, Lab-STICC, Université de Bretagne-Sud,Lorient, France. Best Regards, -- Andréa Cynthia Associate professor Université de Technologie de Troyes Troyes, France

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