*IFORS 2017 - Call for invited sessions - OR in Healthcare
*
Dear Colleague,
As you may know, IFORS 2017, the 21th Conference of the International
Federation of Operational Research Societies, will be held in Quebec,
Canada, from July 17 to 21, 2017 (http://ifors2017.ca/)
As organisers of the stream "OR in healthcare" we would like to
cordially invite you to organise a session on associated topics.
Manifestations of interest should be sent to ana.viana(a)inesctec.pt and
joana(a)fe.uc.pt, with an indication of the topic to be addressed in that
session and name(s) of the organiser(s). After acceptance of the topic,
session organisers will be contacted with additional information
regarding the abstract submission process.
We are looking forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
Ana Viana
Joana Matos Dias
Dear Colleagues,
This is the first announcement for the *XXIV EURO Working Group on
Locational Analysis* meeting (EWGLA 2018) to be held in Edinburgh
(United Kingdom) on May 23-25, 2018. You can already find some
information regarding the conference at
http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/ewgla/. More information will be added in due
time, as, for example, the precise schedule and the social activities.
We anticipate that there will be an optional visit to The Scotch Malt
Whisky Society for a whisky tasting and dinner at their premises in
Leith (limited places, more information to come).
*Aims and Scope*
The meeting intends to gather the operational 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, but not limited to:
* Network location.
* Continuous location.
* Discrete location.
* Obnoxious location.
* Competitive location.
* Hub location.
* Location and 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: January 15, 2018.
Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2018.
Early registration: March 23, 2018.
Conference: May 23-25, 2018.
*Scientific Commitee*
Sibel Alumur Alev, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Sergio García Quiles, University of Edinburgh, UK (Chair).
Boglárka G.-Tóth, Budapest University of Technology and Economics; Hungary.
Ioannis Giannikos, University of Patras, Greece.
Jörg Kalcsics, University of Edinburgh, UK (Chair).
Mercedes Landete Ruiz, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Spain.
Alfredo Marín Pérez, Universidad de Murcia, Spain.
Belén Martín Barragán, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Olivier Péton, École de Mines de Nantes, France.
Antonio Rodríguez Chía, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain.
Francisco Saldanha da Gama, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
Anita Schöbel, Universität Göttingen, Germany.
*Organizing Commitee*
Tom Byrne, University of Edinburgh.
Xavier Cabezas, University of Edinburgh.
Maxence Delorme, University of Edinburgh.
Sergio García Quiles, University of Edinburgh (Chair).
Jörg Kalcsics, University of Edinburgh (Chair).
Belén Martín Barragán, University of Edinburgh (Chair).
Minerva Martín del Campo, University of Edinburgh.
Lukas Schäfer, University of Edinburgh.
Saranthorn Phusingha, University of Edinburgh.
Mengyuan Xiang, University of Edinburgh.
We look forward to see you in Edinburgh,
Belén, Jörg and Sergio.
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
