March 2016 - Ewgla

Library of Location and Layout Algorithms - Beta Release of LoLoLA
by horst w. hamacher 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

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) -- ****************************************************** 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

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SOLA sponsored sessions - INFORMS Annual Meeting in Nashville
by Mihiro Sasaki 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

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 ------------------------ 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/

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[EWGLA2016] Call for papers
by Enrique 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

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

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