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 EWGLA members,
I am the Section on Location Analysis (SOLA) Cluster chair
for the INFORMS 2016 Annual Meeting in Nashville
(http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/nashville2016/),
November 13-16, 2016.
If you are interested in organizing a SOLA sponsored session,
please let me know. I need only tentative theme titles,
then can get you set up in the system to establish your session(s).
In addition, to those who are interested in making a presentation
at SOLA sessions but have no direct connection to session chairs,
please contact me.
Thanks in advance,
Mihiro Sasaki
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Mihiro Sasaki
Dept. of Systems and Mathematical Science
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Nanzan University
18 Yamazato, Showa, Nagoya, Aichi 466-8673, Japan
E-mail: mihiro(a)nanzan-u.ac.jp
http://www.seto.nanzan-u.ac.jp/~mihiro/
EWGLA XXIII Call for Papers
Dear colleagues,
The 23rd EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis meeting (EWGLA 2016) to
be held in Málaga (Spain) on September 14-16, 2016. This year the EWGLA 2016
will be held in conjunction with 7th International Workshop on Locational
Analysis and Related Problems, which is organized by the Spanish Location
Network and Location Group (GELOCA). More information regarding the
conference can be found in http://ewgla2016.lcc.uma.es
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.
Important Dates
Abstract submission deadline: May 15, 2016
Notification of acceptance: June 12, 2016
Early registration: June 30, 2016
Conference: September 14-16, 2016
Organizing Committee
Enrique Domínguez - Chair
Sergio Salguero - Technical Office
Inés Aguilar - Technical Office
We are looking forward to meet you in Málaga !!!
Enrique Dominguez