Ewgla April 2025

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EWGLA 2025 Registration deadlines
by Luisa Isabel Martinez Merino 22 Apr '25

22 Apr '25

Dear colleagues, We would like to remind you that early registration for EWGLA 2025 is open. Please remember the following important dates: Early registration deadline: April 30, 2025. Late registration deadline: June 30, 2025. Detailed information on the registration process can be found at https://ewgla2025.uca.es/registration/. Don't miss the opportunity to attend EWGLA 2025. We look forward to seeing you in Jerez! Best regards, EWGLA 2025 UCA Luisa Isabel Martinez Merino Departamento de Estadística e Investigación Operativa Profesora Ayudante Doctora Universidad de Cádiz luisa.martinez(a)uca.es [ mailto:luisa.martinez@uca.es ]

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Opportunity as Associate Professor in Decision Support Systems at Leeds University Business School
by Antonino Sgalambro 18 Apr '25

18 Apr '25

Dear Locators, I would like to draw your attention to an exciting opportunity at Leeds University Business School. https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=BUSAT1002 Within the Analytics, Technology and Operations Department, we are looking to appoint a new Associate Professor in Decision Support Systems. This position is particularly well-suited for OR colleagues with an interest and a track record of world-class papers on real-world applications of Operational Research. I encourage all interested candidates to apply before 23 April. If you have any questions, please just feel free to get in touch. Best wishes, Antonino Prof Antonino Sgalambro (he/him) Head of Analytics, Technology and Operations Department Professor of Operational Research, PhD, SFHEA Analytics, Technology and Operations Department Leeds University Business School University of Leeds LS2 9JT *: +44(0)113 3435800 *: a.sgalambro(a)leeds.ac.uk<mailto:a.sgalambro@leeds.ac.uk> [signature_463102499]

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Sad news
by Vladimir Marianov Kluge 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

Dear colleagues and friends, With sadness, I write to inform you that our friend and colleague locator Mozart Menezes passed away a couple of days ago. He had been ill for some time. He will be missed deeply. All the Best, Vlad No sienta la obligaci?n de contestar este mail fuera de horario laboral.

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Sad news: Mozart Menezes
by Hatice ÇALIK 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

I regret to share the sad news of Mozart Menezes, a fellow locator and professor at NEOMA Business School in Paris (https://neoma-bs.com/professors/menezes-mozart-2/). My deepest condolences to his friends and colleagues. Hatice Discussions started 10 hours ago, Vladimir Marianov<https://connect.informs.org/profile?UserKey=f56df4c3-0bf9-4962-ab11-0cebe13…> (0 replies) Sad news<https://connect.informs.org/sola/discussion/sad-news-1#bmac66b51b-25db-4ec5…> [external link to thread view] <https://connect.informs.org/sola/discussion/sad-news-1#bmac66b51b-25db-4ec5…> 1. Dear colleagues and friends, With sadness, I... Vladimir Marianov 1. Sad news<https://connect.informs.org/sola/discussion/sad-news-1#bmac66b51b-25db-4ec5…> Reply All<https://connect.informs.org/sola/ourdiscussiongroup/postreply?MessageKey=ac…> [Vladimir Marianov]<https://connect.informs.org/profile?UserKey=f56df4c3-0bf9-4962-ab11-0cebe13…> Apr 8, 2025 1:51 PM Vladimir Marianov<https://connect.informs.org/profile?UserKey=f56df4c3-0bf9-4962-ab11-0cebe13…> Dear colleagues and friends, With sadness, I write to inform you that our friend and colleague locator Mozart Menezes has passed away today. He had been ill for some time. There will be a private ceremony in Paris, France. All the Best, Vlad ------------------------------ Vladimir Marianov Professor Emeritus Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Las Condes ------------------------------

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Location related references collection April 2025
by Frank Plastria 05 Apr '25

05 Apr '25

Dear fellow locaters, Spring is here with a large collection englobing all new references I had englobing 2021 till now: 93 items. Take your time to enjoy. Cheers Frank Plastria Prof. Em. Frank Plastria BUTO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel frank.plastria(a)vub.be %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% [1] Lotte van Aken, Loe Schlicher, and Marco Slikker. Time-dependent Stackelberg protection location games. Operations Research Letters, 60:107278, May 2025. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2025.107278> ] [2] Steffen J.S. Bakker, Jonas Martin, E. Ruben van Beesten, Ingvild Synnøve Brynildsen, Anette Sandvig, Marit Siqveland, and Antonia Golab. STraM: A strategic network design model for national freight transport decarbonization. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 197:104076, May 2025. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2025.104076> ] [3] Majid Banaeyan and Walter G. Kropatsch. Adapting a total vertex order to the geometry of a connected component. 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A two-stage stochastic-robust model for supply chain network design problem under disruptions and endogenous demand uncertainty. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 196:104013, April 2025. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2025.104013> ] [12] Fengqiao Luo. A note on valid inequalities for a service center location problem with a type of decision-dependent customer demand. Annals of Operations Research, 346(3):2387--2400, January 2025. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-025-06475-1> ] [13] Arya Sevgen Misiç, Mumtaz Karatas, and Abdullah Dasci. Optimal sizing and location of energy storage systems for transmission grids connected to wind farms. Omega, 134:103301, July 2025. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2025.103301> ] [14] Mahdi Noorizadegan, Abbas Seifi, Hossein Esmaeeli, and Reza Zanjirani Farahani. Preemptive facility interdiction under damage uncertainty. 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Deep network capacitated covering location model: Spatial location-allocation optimization of community healthcare facilities in consideration of public health emergencies. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 18(1), November 2024. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12061-024-09619-1> ] [22] Yuanyuan Chen, Hongling Men, and Xinli Ke. Optimizing urban green space patterns to improve spatial equity using location-allocation model: A case study in Wuhan. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 84:127922, June 2023. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2023.127922> ] [23] Aliakbar Hasani, Majid Eskandarpour, and Dylan Jones. Health care network design with multiple objectives and stakeholders. Annals of Operations Research, 346(2):1027--1062, December 2023. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-023-05731-6> ] [24] Fouad Maliki, Mehdi Souier, Mohammed Dahane, and Fouad Ben Abdelaziz. A multi-objective optimization model for a multi-period mobile facility location problem with environmental and disruption considerations. Annals of Operations Research, 346(2):1445--1470, September 2022. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10479-022-04945-4> ] [25] Shiva Moslemi and Seyed Hamid Reza Pasandideh. A location-allocation model for quality-based blood supply chain under IER uncertainty. RAIRO - Operations Research, 55:S967--S998, 2021. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/ro/2020035> ] [26] Lazar Mrkela and Zorica Stanimirović. A variable neighborhood search for the budget-constrained maximal covering location problem with customer preference ordering. Operational Research, 22(5):5913--5951, jun 2021. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12351-021-00652-3> ] [27] Mamdouh Mubarak, Halit Üster, Khaled Abdelghany, and Mohammad Khodayar. Strategic network design and analysis for in-motion wireless charging of electric vehicles. 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Multi-period hub location problem with serial demands: A case study of humanitarian aids distribution in Lebanon. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 149:102201, May 2021. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2020.102201> ] [32] Daniel Negrotto and Irene Loiseau. A branch & cut algorithm for the prize-collecting capacitated location routing problem. TOP, 29(1):34--57, January 2021. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11750-020-00590-x> ] [33] Wenjun Ni, Jia Shu, Miao Song, Dachuan Xu, and Kaike Zhang. A branch-and-price algorithm for facility location with general facility cost functions. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 33(1):86--104, January 2021. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/ijoc.2019.0921> ] [34] Cihat Öztürk, Gülfem Tuzkaya, and Serol Bulkan. Centrality based solution approaches for median-type incomplete hub location problems. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 156:107275, June 2021. 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Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 132:103420, November 2021. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2021.103420> ] [39] Subramanian Pazhani, Abraham Mendoza, Ramkumar Nambirajan, T.T. Narendran, K. Ganesh, and Elias Olivares-Benitez. Multi-period multi-product closed loop supply chain network design: A relaxation approach. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 155:107191, May 2021. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2021.107191> ] [40] Filippo Pecci, Ivan Stoianov, and Avi Ostfeld. Relax-tighten-round algorithm for optimal placement and control of valves and chlorine boosters in water networks. European Journal of Operational Research, 295(2):690--698, December 2021. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2021.03.004> ] [41] Justo Puerto, Federica Ricca, and Andrea Scozzari. Locating a discrete subtree of minimum variance on trees: New strategies to tackle a very hard problem. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 289:78--92, January 2021. 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Designing pharmaceutical supply chain networks with perishable items considering congestion. Operational Research, 22(4):4159--4219, September 2021. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12351-021-00674-x> ] [46] Roger Z. Ríos-Mercado, Ada M. Álvarez Socarrás, Andrés Castrillón, and Mario C. López-Locés. A location-allocation-improvement heuristic for districting with multiple-activity balancing constraints and p-median-based dispersion minimization. Computers & Operations Research, 126:105106, February 2021. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2020.105106> ] [47] Sebastian A. Rodriguez, Rodrigo A. De la Fuente, and Maichel M. Aguayo. A simulation-optimization approach for the facility location and vehicle assignment problem for firefighters using a loosely coupled spatio-temporal arrival process. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 157:107242, July 2021. 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Reverse 1-centre problem on trees under convex piecewise-linear cost function. Optimization, 72(3):843--860, oct 2021. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02331934.2021.1995730> ] [69] Danilo Tedeschi and Marina Andretta. New exact algorithms for planar maximum covering location by ellipses problems. European Journal of Operational Research, 291(1):114--127, May 2021. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.09.029> ] [70] Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee, Parvin Abbasian, and Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber. Sustainable fuzzy multi-trip location-routing problem for medical waste management during the COVID-19 outbreak. Science of The Total Environment, 756:143607, feb 2021. [ DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143607> ] [71] Richa Tiwari, Sachin Jayaswal, and Ankur Sinha. Competitive hub location problem: Model and solution approaches. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 146:237--261, April 2021. 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Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that early registration for EWGLA 2025 is now open. Please remember the following important dates: Early registration deadline: April 30, 2025. Late registration deadline: June 30, 2025. Detailed information on the registration process can be found at https://ewgla2025.uca.es/registration/ [ https://ewgla2025.uca.es/registration ]. Don't miss the opportunity to attend EWGLA 2025. We look forward to seeing you in Jerez! Best regards, EWGLA 2025 Universidad de Cádiz [ http://www.uca.es/ ] The 30th EWGLA Organizing Committee Web [ https://ewgla2025.uca.es/ ]Twitter [ https://x.com/ewgla2025 ]

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