February 2012 - Ewgla

ISOLDE XII 2ndCFP
by SUZUKI Atsuo/鈴木敦夫 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Dear EWGLA members, The website of ISOLDE XII www.ms.nanzan-u.ac.jp/uor/isolde/index.html is updated. We uploaded information about the symposium. Please check the importatnt dates for your schedule. We extended the deadline of the submission to March 31 because of the delay of our preparation. The registration webpage will be open hopefully in a week. Please note that people who registered and submitted papers last year needs to register and submit the paper again. I am sorry for this inconvenience. We are very looking forward to seeing you in Japan. Atsuo Here is the first CFP of ISOLDE XII. ISOLDE XII Call for Papers Nagoya & Kyoto, July 19 – 24, 2012 Because of the earthquake and the tsunami which struck Tohoku area in Japan on March 11th in 2011 and the following Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear plant accidents, we postponed the ISOLDE XII for one year. Now the nuclear plant situation is stabilized. Foods and water are completely inspected and radiationally contaminated foods are never served in Japan. Considering these situations, the organizing committee and the scientific committee have decided to have ISOLDE XII in Japan in July 2012. We will restart the registration process by the end of January. We hope that many location scientists and practitioners come to Japan and have a fruitful time for both their careers. The ISOLDE Conferences have been held every three years since 1978. The conference attendees are scientists and practitioners whose research interests deal with quantitative and qualitative methods for location theory, modeling and planning. Researchers and practitioners who are working in all related areas of economics, engineering, geography, mathematics and operations research are also invited to participate. We are proud to hold the first ISOLDE meeting outside of Europe and North America, and are pleased to invite you to attend the ISOLDE XII conference to be held in Nagoya and Kyoto from July 19 through 24, 2012. Following a tradition started with ISOLDE III, the conference will take place in two locations: the first three days we will meet in Nagoya, on the campus of Nanzan University. From there, we will move to Kyoto, an old capital of Japan. The first three days of the meeting, we will meet in Nagoya, the central city of the Chubu region. Nagoya is located at the center of Honshu ( the main island of Japan) and the most economically successful industrial city in Japan. The hosting institution is NANZAN University, which was founded by the Divine Word Missionaries and is one of the most prestigious universities in this region. Sessions will be held at Nagoya Campus which is located in the rolling hills overlooking metropolitan Nagoya city. The URL of Nanzan University’s website is http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/English/ The second part of the conference will be held in Kyoto, the old capital of Japan Kyoto was established more than 1200 years ago and is a World Heritage site. Kyoto is famous for their historical temples, shrines and houses. Following a short tour of Kyoto, the sessions will take place at Hotel Granvia Kyoto, which is located next to Kyoto Station. The URL of the hotel’s website is http://www.granviakyoto.com/ The preliminary conference website is now open. As the site is in development, contents are subject to change. The URL is http://www.ms.nanzan-u.ac.jp/uor/isolde/ We hope to see all of you in Nagoya in July 2012. Atsuo Suzuki, Conference Chairman on behalf of the Organizing Committee Important dates: January 2012: Registration start 31 March, 2012: Deadline for abstract submission 30 April, 2012: Notification of acceptance 15 June, 2012: Deadline for early registration 19-24 July, 2012: ISOLDE XII 18th: Welcome reception at Nanzan University 19th-21st: Sessions in Nanzan University 21st: Transfer to Hotel Granvia Kyoto 22nd: Excursion in Kyoto 23rd-24th: Sessions in Hotel Granvia Kyoto 24th: Banquet Registration fee will be announced soon at the website. The preliminary estimate of the regular fee isabout 50,000 JPY. Subsidies for students, retirees, and the special rates for accompanying family will be also determined. We are also arranging post or pre conference tours in Japan – please watch the website for announcements Department of Information Systems & Mathmatical Sciences, Nanzan University 27 Seto-shi, Aichi 489-0863, Japan

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REMINDER: Call for Abstracts at EURO 2012 - Lithuania : Location and GIS
by Burcin Bozkaya 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

*** REMINDER APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS *** Dear Locators, You are kindly invited to submit an abstract for a session that I am organizing at EURO 2012, to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 8-11, 2012. Deadline for abstract submission is February 29, 2012, and is fast approaching. If interested, please submit your abstract to this session with the invitation code: d67b66b0 Further details regarding this session are: Session Title: Location and GIS Stream: Applications of Location Analysis Session Chair: Burcin Bozkaya Possible Topics: * Location models and algorithms integrated with commercial GIS tools * Decision Support implementations involving Location Analysis and GIS * New business models at the intersection of Location Analysis and GIS * Case Studies from industry with use of Location Analysis and GIS To contribute, please submit your abstract at www.euro-2012.lt. Abstracts must be in English and contain no more than 600 characters (with no formulas or mathematical notation). Each registered participant is allowed to present one paper. Looking forward to seeing you in Lithuania with interesting applications of location and GIS Best Regards, Burcin Bozkaya --------------------------------------------------- Burçin Bozkaya, Ph.D. Assoc. Prof. of Operations Management Director of the MBA Program Sabanci University Sabanci School of Management Orhanli, Tuzla 34956 Istanbul, Turkey Tel: +90 216 483-9687 Fax: +90 216 483-9699 GSM: +90 533 280-0711 <http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/bbozkaya/> <http://som.sabanciuniv.edu/>

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Reminder: Location and Supply Chain Management - Call for abstracts - EURO 2012
by Teresa Melo 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

Please ignore the previous email which was sent to you by mistake! The correct information is enclosed below. *************************************************** Special session on "Location and Supply Chain Management" EURO 2012, Vilnius, Lithuania, July 8-11, 2012 ***************************************************** Dear Locators, You are cordially invited to submit an abstract to the session on "Location and Supply Chain Management" to be held at the EURO 2012. This special session is part of the stream "Location Analysis: Location Applications". Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: . Facility location models within supply chain management: integration of location decisions with other issues such as e.g. procurement, production, transportation, inventory, etc. . Solution approaches for (re)designing a supply chain network * Case studies from industry involving facility location and logistics network design The deadline for abstract submission is February 29, 2012 (no more than 600 characters, no formulas or mathematical notation). Please feel free to send me your abstract as I'm organizing this special session. I will post it in the conference system and will send you a confirmation. Alternatively, you may access the conference website directly at www.euro-2012.lt and select the session code "2f76d373". Looking forward to receiving interesting contributions of facility location in supply chain management! Kind regards, Teresa Melo Prof. Dr. Teresa Melo Business School Saarland University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Waldhausweg 14 D 66123 Saarbruecken Germany Phone: +49 681 5867 588 Fax: +49 681 5867 507 E-Mail: teresa.melo(a)htw-saarland.de Web: <http://www.htw-saarland.de> www.htw-saarland.de

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MEC - Variable Neighborhood Search 2012 - Announcement
by Dragan Urosevic 03 Feb '12

03 Feb '12

*** Apologies if you have received this Announcement more than once *** 2nd Announcement 2nd Mini EURO Conference on Variable Neighborhood Search MEC-VNS 2012 4-7 October 2012. Herceg Novi, Montenegro. http://www.mi.sanu.ac.rs/~vnsconference2012 Organization * Honorary Chair of the Conference: Pierre Hansen, GERAD and HEC Montreal, Canada. * Conference Chairs: Nenad Mladenovic, Brunel, UK and JUPIM, Serbia; José A. Moreno Pérez, University of La Laguna, Spain. * Program Committee Chairs: Emilio Carrizosa, University of Seville, Spain; Belén Melián Batista, University of La Laguna, Spain * Organizing Committee Chair: Dragan Urosevic, Mathematical Institute SASA, Beograd * Secretary: Sanja Roksandic, Mathematical Institute, SASA, Beograd Scope and Objectives The 2nd Mini EURO Conference dedicated to Variable Neighborhood Search (MEC-VNS) will be held in Herceg Novi (Montenegro) October 4-7, 2012. The Mini EURO Conferences (MEC) constitute one of the instruments provided by EURO (the Association of European Operational Research societies) to promote the research in its field of interest. Each MEC is an specialized conference focusing a particular promising OR theme of research. These events are organized to allow specialists and practitioners of the selected topic of research to effectively screen papers participate in lively debates.VNS is a metaheuristic based on systematic changes in the neighbour-rhood structure within a search, for solving optimization problems and related tasks. The main goal of the 2nd MEC-VNS is to provide a stimulating environment in which researchers coming from various scientific fields can share and discuss their knowledge, expertise and ideas related to the VNS Metaheuristic and its applications. Submissions The submission of papers ends on June 12, 2012. The accepted papers will be edited in conference proceedings in CD-ROM with its corresponding ISBN. A booklet with extended abstracts (4 pages) will also be provided to the participants. The official language of the conference is English. Publication In agreement with the Editors of the Journal of Global Optimization (JOGO) and the Editors of IMA Journal of Management Mathematics (IMA-MAN) and the Editors of Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research (YUJOR), authors present at MEC VNS 2011 will be invited to submit full versions of their papers to be published on a Special Issues of JOGO or IMA-MAN or YUJOR on the theme of the conference. Organizers are trying to get one more special issue of the journal from the SCI list. Note that for the 1st MEC-VNS, three special issues with papers presented at the conference were published (EJOR, JOH and IMA-MAN). Plenary speakers. Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida, USA. Richard F. Hartl, University of Vienna, Austria. Celso C. Ribeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil. Venue The conference will be held at the Pla.a hotel in Herceg Novi, Montenegro. Tivat (20km away) and Dubrovnik (25km away) are two international airports connecting Herceg Novi with worldwide cities by air traffic. From Dubrovnik and Tivat airports, Herceg Novi is easily access-ible by taxi cab and by regular buses. Registration fee Normal Student Before August 1, 2012 280 EUR. 100 EUR. After August 1, 2012 330 EUR. 150 EUR. with the notice for the authors who wish their papers to be published in the Proceedings, the payment deadline is August 25, 2012. The registration fee includes conference Proceedings, extended abstract booklet and documentation, lunches, coffee breaks and social program (gala dinner and excursion to Dubrovnik). To qualify as a student, the delegate must present a student card. Support from EURO may be granted to seven delegates from Eastern European countries and support from SEIO may be granted to some of its Ph.D. students. The PhD students of the Faculty of Organizational sciences (FOS), University of Belgrade will have free access to the conference and will receive the documentation. Important dates May 01, 2012 Participant registration June 12, 2012 Paper submission July 03, 2012 Acceptance notice September 04, 2012 Preliminary program schedule notice October 04 - 07, 2012 Conference Program Committee Chairs: Emilio Carrizosa, Belén Melián Batista Secretary: Raca Todosijevic Members: Aloise, Daniel, GERAD, Montreal, Canada. Alvarez, Ada, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México. Beasley John, Brunel, United Kingdom. Braysy, Olli, SINTEF Oslo, Norway. Brimberg, Jack, Royal Military College, Kingston, Canada. Caporossi, Gilles, HEC Montreal, Canada. Carrizosa, Emilio, University of Sevilla, Spain. Crainic, Teodor G., University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada. Cvetkovic, Dragos, Mathematical institute SASA, Serbia. Doerner, Karl, Institute of Management Science, Vienna, Austria. Duarte, Abraham, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain. Eremeev, Anton, Omsk State University, Russia. Escudero, Laureano, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Spain. Gendreau, Michel, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada. Gonzales-Velarde, Jose Luis, Centro de Manufactura y Calidad, Tecnológico de Monterrey, México. Hanafi, Saďd, University of Valenciennes, France. Hansen, Pierre, GERAD, Montreal, Canada. Hartl, Richard, Institute of Management Science, Vienna, Austria. Kochetov, Yuri, Novosibirsk, Russia. Kovacevic-Vujcic, Vera, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Labbé, Martine, Free university of Brussels, Belgium. Liberti, Leo, LIX Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France. Melián Batista, Belén, University La Laguna, Spain. Moreno-Perez José A., University of La Laguna, Spain. Moreno, Vega Marcos J, University La Laguna, Spain. Pacheco, Joaquín Antonio, University of Burgos, Spain. Pérez-Brito, Dionisio, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain. Puerto, Justo, University of Seville, Spain. Raidl, Güinter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria. Ribeiro, Celso, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Salhi, Said, University of Kent, United Kingdom. Sevaux, Marc, University of Southern Brittany, France. Sörensen, Kenneth, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Stützle, Thomas, TU Darmstadt, Germany. Urosevic, Dragan, Mathematical Institute SASA, Belgrade, Serbia. Zhao, Qiuhong, Bejing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. Organizing Committee: Chair: Dragan Urosevic, Mathematical Institute SASA (MI-SASA); Co-chair: José A. Moreno Pérez, University La Laguna, Spain. Secretary: Gordana Nastic, Mathematical Institute SASA. Members: I Grujicic, FOS, University of Belgrade; S Roksandic, M Milinkovic, R Todosijevic - Mathematical Institute SASA, Belgrade, N Mladenovic, JUPIM, Belgrade, J Moreno Perez, J. Marcos Moreno Vega, J Brito Santana, University of La Laguna. Contact: Dragan Urosevic. MEC-VNS 2012 Mathematical Institute SASA. Kneza Mihaila 36 11001 Beograd, p.p. 367 Serbia vnsconference2012(a)mi.sanu.ac.rs Web page: http://www.mi.sanu.ac.rs/~vnsconference2012

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New webpage
by Γιάννης Γιαννίκος 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

Dear EWGLA members, We are pleased to inform you that the EWGLA webpage is now hosted within the EURO website. The www.ewgla.eu address is still valid but now directed to the new website under EURO (http://www.euro-online.org/ewgla/) As EWGLA members, you have access to the 'members only' area where useful resources are available (e.g. bibliography, invited presentations, links to some test instances and software). We now have a new mailing list address. You can use the address ewgla(a)euro-online.org to send messages to all EWGLA members. For contacting the EWGLA Board use the address ewgla-board(a)euro-online.org We would like to thank EURO for hosting our webpage and, in particular, Bernard Fortz, for his support during the transition. We would also like to encourage you to visit our webpage often and to send us any ideas or suggestions that would improve its functionality. Sibel Alumur Alev Ioannis Giannikos Mercedes Landete Ruiz (The EWGLA Coordination Board)

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