June 2015 - Ewgla

EUROPT 2015 Call for papers
by Sergio García Quiles 04 Sep '15

04 Sep '15

Dear colleagues, Here you have a wonderful opportunity to participate in an exciting conference in Edinburgh just before EURO in Glasgow starts. Best, Sergio. ******************************************************************************************************************************** Call for Papers 13th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization July 8-10, 2015: Edinburgh http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/hall/EUROPT15/ EUROPT2015 is the annual event of the EUROPT continuous optimization working group of EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies). This is the 13th such workshop and is held in collaboration with the EURO 2015 conference to be held in Glasgow on July 12-15 2015. Talks should be related to continuous optimization theory, algorithms, software or applications. It is expected that there will be a particular focus on large-scale optimization and linear algebra techniques in optimization. Plenary speakers confirmed: Sven Leyffer (Argonne National Laboratory) Lieven Vandenberghe (University of California, Los Angeles) Serge Gratton (CERFACS-IRIT, Toulouse) Abstracts (max one page *.pdf) should be submitted to EUROPT15(a)maths.ed.ac.uk by March 27 2015 Registration will open in due course, with the fees having been set as £150 (Standard) and £75 (PhD student) before May 15 2015. Afterwards the respective fees will be £200 and £100. Well priced accommodation has been booked for the nights before, during and after the conference, and details of how to reserve a room will be published in due course. We hope you will want to take this opportunity to visit Edinburgh and contribute to advances in continuous optimization. Julian Hall and Jacek Gondzio Chairs of the Organising and Programme Committees for EUROPT2015

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ITOR Special issue on “Improving Healthcare: new challenges, new approaches” new deadline
by Joana Matos Dias 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

Call for Papers *Special issue on “Improving Healthcare: new challenges, new approaches” * Guest Editors: Joana Dias, INESCC/FEUC, Portugal Humberto Rocha, INESCC, Portugal Ana Viana, ISEP/INESC TEC, Portugal The International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR) will publish a Special Issue dedicated to “Improving Healthcare: new challenges, new approaches”. 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. Operational Research can significantly contribute to tackle many of the current and forthcoming challenges. Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics, including but not limited to: ·Location and allocation problems in healthcare ·Healthcare logistics ·Planning and scheduling healthcare delivery ·Optimization in radiotherapy ·Healthcare information systems ·Medical data mining ·Health economics - costing and pricing of health services ·Disease modelling ·Risk assessment and prioritisation Although we strongly encourage the submission of papers presented at XXXI Euro Mini Conference on Improving Healthcare that took place in Coimbra, Portugal, from March 30 to April 1 2015, this Call for Papers is also open to the entire community of academics and practitioners. All papers will be peer-reviewed according to the editorial policy of ITOR (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118505725/home) published by the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS). Papers should be original, unpublished, and not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. They should be prepared according to the instructions to authors that can be found in the journal homepage. Authors should upload their contributions using the submission site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/itor, indicating in their cover letter that the paper is intended for this special issue. The deadline for submissions is *October 31*, 2015. Other inquiries should be sent directly to any of the Guest Editors in charge of this issue: Joana Dias (joana(a)fe.uc.pt) Humberto Rocha (hrocha(a)mat.uc.pt) and Ana Viana (aviana(a)inescporto.pt)

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Special Issue on Recent Advances in Location Analysis
by Sibel Alumur Alev 12 Jun '15

12 Jun '15

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that our special issue on Recent Advances in Location Analysis has been published as part of Volume 62 of Computers & Operations Research. We received a total of 64 submissions addressing various problems in the context of location analysis. At the end of the reviewing process, 19 papers were accepted to be published. We have excellent contributions in this special issue. You may find the online publication of the issue in the following link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03050548/62 We would like thank all of those who contributed to this special issue. In particular, all the authors for submitting and revising their work and all the reviewers for their valuable time and constructive criticism which certainly improved the quality of all the publications. Special Issue Editors Sibel A. Alumur and Bahar Y. Kara

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