Dear colleagues,
I would appreciate if you could distribute this
announcement through your mail list.
Best,
Emilio Carrizosa
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SPECIAL ISSUE
ON VARIABLE NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH
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JOURNAL OF
GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION
www.springer.com/10898
2011 Impact Factor 1.196
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Variable
Neighborhood Search (VNS) is a metaheuristic which has shown to
be
very successful for solving hard combinatorial and global optimization
problems.
During the EURO Mini-Conference on VNS took place in
Herceg Novi,
Montenegro, October 4th-7th 2012, researchers all around
the world
presented their most recent findings on VNS, either from a
methodological
viewpoint or as applications to real world problems.
Authors of papers presented at the EURO Mini-Conference on VNS are
especially encouraged to submit their work to this special issue in
the Journal of Global Optimization. However, the issue is open to all
researchers who can contribute to a better
knowledge of VNS. Potential
topics include, but are not limited to:
Theory and Methodology:
*
Theoretical or empirical analysis of VNS
* New variants of
deterministic and stochastic VNS
* Continuous global VNS
*
Mat-heuristics and VNS
* Formulation space VNS
* Multi-objective VNS
* Parallel VNS
* VNS hybrids
Applications:
* Mixed integer
programming
* Graphs, communication networks
* Clustering, data
mining, location
* Inventory, routing, supply chains
* Packing and
covering
* Discovery sciences
* Other real world problems
Before
submission authors should carefully read over the journals Author
Guidelines. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of
their
complete manuscript through the journal's editorial manager
http://jogo.edmgr.com/ and specifying that their paper is for the
special
issue "SI: VNS 2012". Manuscript deadline: 31st December 2012.
GUEST EDITORS
Emilio Carrizosa, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain,
ecarrizosa(a)us.es
Pierre Hansen, GERAD and École des Hautes Etudes
Commerciales, Canada,
pierre.hansen(a)gerad.ca
José A. Moreno,
Universidad de la Laguna, Spain, jamoreno(a)ull.es
Dear Location Researchers,
During the last ISOLDE meeting in Japan, Gilbert Laporte said it's a pity
that there is so little information available regarding the past ISOLDE
meetings. We discussed that it'd be nice if we can have a website for
ISOLDE. I volunteered to design such a website. The website address is:
http://isoldeconference.org. As we discussed with Gilbert, I have designed
the page in a way that people will be able to post some memories from the
past ISOLDE meetings.
In order to support the website, I also established a Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/ISOLDE-Conference/534366156575345. All of the
past ISOLDE meetings are listed on the events page. It is easier to post
pictures and comments for each of the meetings through these event pages.
You should be able to access these pages without being a Facebook member.
For those of you who are a member of Facebook, you can "like" this page to
be informed about recent posts and pictures. Also, you can "join" the past
meetings that you have attended and keep track of how many ISOLDE meetings
that you have been to.
I have put all the information that I have to the website in addition to
some pictures that I could get. I'm especially in search of the group photos
taken in all of the past meetings. It would be wonderful if the past meeting
organizers can send group photos or any additional information to share
through the website.
Lastly, I encourage all the past participants to share memories and pictures
to keep the ISOLDE website and Facebook pages alive.
Best regards,
Sibel Alumur Alev
Call for papers: Euro XXVI conference Rome Italy 1-4 July 2013
Hybridisation of Heuristics/Exact Methods for Combinatorial and Global Optimisation
Call for invited Talks and organizing chairs
Hi Guys,
I am organizing a stream on 'Hybridisation of heuristic/exact for combinatorial and global optimisation'.
If you are interested in organizing a session or just to submit a paper please email me. Each session needs to include 4 talks (in case you are oversubscribe or under subscribe I will try to balance it between the sessions if need be).
The deadline is end of the month but we will see if extensions are possible.
- Talks are encouraged to include both components namely heuristic (meta-heuristics) and exact though individual ones will not be excluding.
- Areas of interest cover any combinatorial/global optimization problem that is either practically useful or academically interesting.
Best wishes
Said
Professor Said Salhi (FORS, FIMA, MILT)
Director: Centre for Logistics & Heuristic Optimisation (CLHO),
Head of Group: Management Science & Operations,
Kent Business School
University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7PE, UK
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www.kent.ac.uk/kbs/profiles/staff/salhi_said.html<http://www.kent.ac.uk/kbs/profiles/staff/salhi_said.html>
www.kent.ac.uk/kbs/clho<http://www.kent.ac.uk/kbs/clho>
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.