Dear EWGLA Members,
as announced during the last EWGLA Meeting, we are pleased to inform you
about the first official release of our software library
“*LoLoLA*” – *L*ibrary *o*f *Lo*cation and *L*ayout *A*lgorithms.
The library and all related information can be downloaded from
www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~lolola.
The software is released under the /GNU General Public License /and,
therefore, the source code is available for downloading and modifying.
Instructions on how to install the library and which algorithms are
available can be found in the documentation. Moreover, an executable for
the Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Windows is provided.
If you have any questions or have a feedback/bug report, feel free to
write an email to
lolola(a)mathematik.uni-kl.de.
Note, that this is a Beta-release. We are thankful for every comment and
suggestion for improvement. If you want to be informed about updates of
LoLoLA do not forget to check
"Receive notifications for new releases" on the download page.
Best regards,
Horst W. Hamacher, Philipp Heßler, Andrea Maier
University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
and
Aleksandra Gross (now Cambridge, Great-Britain)
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Prof. Dr. Horst W. Hamacher
Chair of Management and Educational Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
University of Kaiserslautern
67653 Kaiserslautern
GERMANY
Tel: (Germany) (0)631 205 2267
homepage:
http://optimierung.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~hamacher
Dear Colleagues,
I'm happy to announce the SOLA Dissertation Award recipients. We have 2 winners and 1 honorable mention this year.
Winners:
Kien Trung Nguyen, Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Advisors: Horst W. Hamacher and Rainer E. Burkard
Marcus Sinnl, University of Vienna, Advisors: Ivana Ljubic and Immanuel Bomze
Honorable mention:
Fan Jia, University of Minnesota, Advisor: John Gunnar Carlsson
The award committee consisted of myself as chair, Vladimir Marianov, and Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama.
I'd like to thank the award committee and congratulate the award recipients once again. Attached you may find a photo from the award ceremony held during the SOLA Annual Business Meeting
Best regards,
Sibel
Sibel Alumur Alev, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Management Sciences
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1 CANADA
tel: +1-519-888-4567, ext. 33365
e-mail: sibel.alumur(a)uwaterloo.ca<mailto:sibel.alumur@uwaterloo.ca>
url: http://www.mansci.uwaterloo.ca/~salumura/