November 2014 - Ewgla

SEPS social issue on Location Analysis for Public Sector Decision Making
by Vedat Verter, Prof. 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

Final Call for Papers Special Issue of Socio-Economic Planning Sciences Location Analysis for Public Sector Decision-Making in Uncertain Times Guest Editors: Giuseppe Bruno, University of Naples “Federico II”,Italy Andrea Genovese, University of Sheffield, UK ******Extended Submission Deadline: January 31, 2015****** Socio-Economic Planning Sciences will publish a special issue on recent development in Location Analysis for Public Sector Decision-Making. The goal is to compile state-of-the art research, spanning modeling, theory, empirical studies, application and case studies in this research area. We seek operations research oriented contributions that are rigorously executed, clearly and succinctly written, and innovative relative to what is currently known. In light of the scope of SEPS, all papers must clearly demonstrate the relevance of their contributions with respect to the public sector. A facility location problem is aimed at finding the best position for a set of facilities within a given region in order to optimize a specific objective function. In the last decades, there have been many applications concerning the location of public-sector facilities (i.e. schools or post offices, emergency services, fire stations, hospitals, ambulances). These models represent a viable decision support tool for institutions that are planning to expand their capacity in a given region and/or market. This very well established research strand, however, has to take into account the changing and uncertain nature of our times. Indeed, in recent years, due to the global recession and the general interest to reduce costs and improve efficiency, public sector bodies have been more interested in the rationalization of the current position of active facilities (either closing down some of them or re-organizing the overall service supply system). In this context, decisions may depend on various factors such as the nature of the service and the characteristics of the demand. Considering this context, the special issue will be welcoming papers related to applications and theory of Location Analysis, with a special emphasis on contributions addressing contemporary challenges. All manuscripts should be submitted electronically via the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) http://ees.elsevier.com/seps. You must select Location Analysis as the Article Type to make sure that your paper will be considered for the special issue. The submission deadline is January 31, 2015. The plan is to publish the special issue in early 2016. Researchers from all relevant disciplines are invited to consider this special issue as an outlet to publish their quality work on this topic of increasing significance. Inquiries on the special issue can be directed to the guest editors (giuseppe.bruno(a)unina.it<mailto:Giuseppe.bruno@unina.it>, a.genovese(a)sheffield.ac.uk<mailto:a.genovese@sheffield.ac.uk>).

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congratulations to SOLA award winners!
by Larry Snyder 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Dear SOLA and EWGLA Members, It is my pleasure to (re-)announce the winners of the awards presented at the SOLA business meeting at INFORMS San Francisco last week: *Gemma Berenguer* won first place in the the SOLA-Air Products Dissertation Award for her dissertation "A New Approach in Supply Chain Design: Studies in Reverse Logistics and Nonprofit Settings," completed under the supervision of Max Shen at UC-Berkeley. Honorable Mentions went to the authors of two additional outstanding dissertations: *Gina Galindo*, for her dissertation "Prepositioning Supplies in Preparation for a Foreseen Hurricane," supervised by Rajan Batta at SUNY-Buffalo, and *Hans-Peter Ziegler*, for his dissertation "Algorithms for Linear Stochastic Programs and their Application in Supply Chain Network Design Problems" at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, supervised by Stefan Nickel (Karlsruhe) and Francisco Saldanha da Gama (U Lisbon). We presented the Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis (LALA) award to two professors who have made enormous contributions to location analysis over their careers, *Mark Daskin* and *Gilbert Laporte*. Mark is chair of the IOE department at Michigan and is author of a number of seminal location theory papers as well as the 1995 textbook /Network and Discrete Location/ (revised in 2013) and has served on a number of editorial boards and as INFORMS President. Gilbert is Professor at HEC Montréal and is author/co-author/editor of over 450 journal articles and 17 books, focusing on location, transportation, and their intersection. As is our tradition, the LALA awards were announced at ISOLDE XIII in Naples/Capri and were officially awarded at the SOLA business meeting. Please join me in congratulating all of the winners! Best, Larry -- Larry Snyder Associate Professor Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering <http://www.lehigh.edu/ise/> Integrated Networks for Electricity (INE) Research Cluster <http://www.lehigh.edu/%7Eingrid/> Power from Oceans, Rivers, and Tides (PORT) Lab <http://www.lehigh.edu/portlab/> Lehigh University larry.snyder(a)lehigh.edu coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~larry/ <http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/%7Elarry> 610 758 6696 W

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Last Call for Papers: EURO Mini Conference on, Improving Healthcare: new challenges, new approaches - new deadline
by Joana Matos Dias 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

EURO Mini Conference on Improving Healthcare: new challenges, new approaches Coimbra, Portugal 30 March – 1 April 2015 www.minieuro2015.com <http://www.minieuro2015.com/> We would like to welcome you to Coimbra, a beautiful city in Portugal, and its University recently recognized as World Heritage by UNESCO. __ _Scope and objectives_ Recent advances in medicine allow us to live longer and healthier lives. These advances have been made possible through the joint contribution of very different scientific fields. Healthcare is nowadays better understood as a multidisciplinary field, with increasing number of challenges that can be better tackled by joint collaboration of researchers with different scientific backgrounds. The challenges that Healthcare is facing have not only to do with the ability of providing better services to all (treatments, preventive medicine, better diagnosis tools), with an increased focus on improved personalized treatment options, but also with the need to tackle an increased pressure felt by Healthcare systems: increased number of patients, some of them requiring expensive treatments, with a consequent increase in the workload for health institutions that most of the times have to deal with important budget restrictions. The Conference will provide a forum in which researchers coming from different scientific disciplines can discuss and share their experience regarding methodological approaches to tackle different Healthcare challenges. Contributions from operational research, industrial engineering, medicine, medical physics, management, computational biology, bioinformatics, health economics among others are welcomed. __ _Streams_ If you are interested in organizing a stream please let us know (info(a)minieuro2015.com) Confirmed streams: ·Health Informatics ·Radiotherapy Optimization ·Biomedical Engineering ·Health Logistics and Scheduling _Confirmed Plenary Speakers_ Sally Brailsford, University of Southampton David Craft, Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital Ben Heijmen, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute and Erasmus University Rotterdam Alexandre Quintanilha, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar __ _Submissions:_ Authors are invited to submit an abstract with not more than 350 words or a full paper (4 to 10 pages) to be published in the conference proceedings (Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)). After the conference, authors of accepted abstracts and papers can submit extended versions of their work to special issues: ·International Transactions in Operational Research ·Journal of Global Optimization (subject to a sufficient number of submissions) _Important Dates:_ Submission of Abstracts/ Papers: 17 October 2014 *23 November 2014 (Final Date!)* Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2014 Final abstract/paper due: 09 February 2015 Early Registration Deadline: 02 March 2015 _Registration_ Full Early registration 225€ Full Late registration 300€ Student Early registration 100€ Student Late registration 120€

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2nd Call for papers, XVI Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry
by XVI EGC 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

[Apologies for multiple postings] SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS -- XVI EGC XVI Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry (Encuentros de Geometría Computacional, EGC) July 1-3, 2015 Barcelona, Spain http://www-ma2.upc.es/egc15 The XVI Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry will be held on July 1-3, 2015, at the Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. The main focus of this international conference is on current topics in Discrete and Computational Geometry, including both theoretical and applied results. EGC started in 1990, making this edition, 25 years later, a special occasion. The intended audience for this conference includes graduate and undergraduate students, researchers in the area or from neighboring disciplines, and members of industry whose work involves geometric algorithms. Topics include, but are not limited to: * geometric algorithms and data structures; * discrete and combinatorial geometry; * theoretical foundations of computational geometry; * questions of interest in the implementation of geometric algorithms and geometric software development; * applications of computational geometry, and closely related areas, such as computer graphics, virtual reality, robotics, computer vision, simulation and visualization, solid modelling, computer aided design and manufacturing, pattern recognition, graph drawing and circuit layout, image processing, geographic information systems, multimedia and animation, wireless communications, computer algebra, computational topology, statistical analysis, operations research, computational biology, etc. The language of the conference is English, yet occasional submissions/ presentations in Spanish may be exceptionally considered. IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are 23:59 CEST and fixed. There will be no extensions. Paper submission deadline: April 16, 2015 Notification of paper acceptance: May 14 Grant application deadline: May 21 Final versions due: June 2 Early registration deadline: June 4 Conference: July 1-3, 2015 INVITED SPEAKERS Jin Akiyama, Tokyo University of Science. Francisco Santos, Universidad de Cantabria. Bettina Speckmann, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Jorge Urrutia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. SUBMISSIONS We invite authors to submit extended abstracts that should not exceed 4 pages of original research. In order to guarantee that submissions are in scope and not below basic standards, there will be a limited review process. An appendix can be added as a help for the reviewers and is required when necessary to verify omitted proofs of critical claims. Submission details will be available on the conference website. We remark that XVI ECG will have neither formally reviewed proceedings nor printed abstracts. The abstracts, without ISBN, will be made available on the conference website (appendices excluded), and must be regarded as a collection of preprints rather than a formally reviewed selection of papers. Papers that have just been submitted to journals or to formally reviewed conferences are eligible for being presented at XVI ECG, assuming that it is allowed by those venues and they have not appeared by the time of the conference. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the conference. Failure to do so will result in removal of the contribution everywhere in the website. SPECIAL ISSUE Authors of selected contributions will be invited to submit a full version of their work to a special issue of the International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications. ACCOMODATION Rooms have been reserved at three different university residences, at a special rate. You will have the chance to book a room in one of them when you fill in the registration form. Important: the number of rooms reserved is limited! The sooner you register, the higher the chance to find a place at the residence of your choice. Once all the rooms we have reserved are booked, attendants will have to search accommodation by themselves. Registration and accommodation reservation will open on March 23, 2015. COMMITTEES Program committee Manuel Abellanas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Oswin Aichholzer, Graz University of Technology. Prosenjit Bose, Carleton University. Sergio Cabello, University of Ljubljana. Jean Cardinal, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Erik Demaine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. José M. Díaz Bañez, Universidad de Sevilla. Ruy Fabila-Monroy, Cinvestav. Silvia Fernández-Merchant, California State University, Northridge. Jesús García López, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Alfredo García Olaverri, Universidad de Zaragoza. Gregorio Hernández, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Rolf Klein, University of Bonn. Marc van Kreveld, Utrecht University. Stefan Langerman, Université Libre de Bruxelles. Alberto Márquez, Universidad de Sevilla. Joseph S.B. Mitchell, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Belén Palop, Universidad de Valladolid. Pedro Ramos (Chair), Universidad de Alcalá. Tomás Recio, Universidad de Cantabria. Eduardo Rivera-Campo, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -- Iztapalapa. Toshinori Sakai, Tokai University, Tokyo Gelasio Salazar, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí. Francisco Santos, Universidad de Cantabria. Antoni Sellarès, Universitat de Girona. Rodrigo I. Silveira, Universidade de Aveiro & Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Pavel Valtr, Charles University. David Wood, Monash University. Organizing commitee Mercè Claverol, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Carmen Hernando, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Clemens Huemer, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Mercè Mora, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Vera Sacristán (Chair), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Carlos Seara, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Rodrigo I. Silveira, Universidade de Aveiro & Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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Election of new Coordination Board
by Ioannis Giannikos 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Dear Locators, The period for the election of the new EWGLA Coordination Board expired on October 31st 2014. We did not receive any votes against the proposal submitted by Jörg Kalcsics (Germany), Sergio García Quiles (Spain) and Olivier Péton (France). In fact, we received messages by several EWGLA members in favor of the proposal. Therefore, the candidates are elected. The new Coordination Board will take office in the forthcoming EWGLA meeting in Budapest (May 2015). Congratulations to the new Coordination Board! Sibel Alumur Alev Ioannis Giannikos Mercedes Landete Ruiz

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