Dear colleagues,
I would like to share with you the 2nd Call For Papers below of the next edition of the International Conference ILS 2016, which will be host by Kedge BS in Bordeaux from 1st to 4 June 2016, (http://www.ils2016conference.com/ <http://www.ils2016conference.com/>), under the general theme "Building a Resilient Future".
You are invited to submit original research manuscripts to the conference according to your research interest in link with one of the conference topics or one of the thematic sessions proposed. Submission details are given here:http://ils2016conference.com/call-for-papers/ <http://ils2016conference.com/call-for-papers/>. Please, consider the first track that is under my name as organizer for your submission.
All submissions will be double blind peer-reviewed and accepted manuscripts will be published in the conference proceedings with an ISBN and indexed by Elsevier. Note that extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in well-known journals (International Journal of Production Research &Computers In Industry) within a special issue or proposed as regular papers. Recall that Manuscript deadline is extended to 4th of January, 2016.
Let me know if you would like to have your manuscript considered for publication.
All the best,
Mozart Menezes
EWGLA member
SOLA member
Mozart B.C. Menezes, Phd
Operations Management and Information Systems Department
Research Cluster in Supply Chain Management
Office phone number: +33 (0)5 56 84 42 08
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Dear locators,
Here is a message from Vladimir Marianov :
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Dear Friends,
The LAND-TRANSLOG III we are organizing in Chile, has a new deadline (we
had some troubles with our database). I would very much appreciate if
you could post this new CFP.
Thanks a lot!
Vlad
Vladimir Marianov
Professor
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
NEW DEADLINE NOVEMBER 25, 2015
Call for Abstracts
* Due to technical issues related to our mailing system: New deadline
date for abstracts.
LAND – TRANSLOG III
Joint Workshop on Location and Network Design – Transportation and
Logistic
Santa Cruz, Chile. March 13 – 17, 2016
www.land-translog.cl <http://www.land-translog.cl/>
The Complex Engineering Systems Institute (ISCI) has the pleasure to
announce the Workshop LAND – TRANSLOG III, a special joint workshop,
which is a continuation of a series of previous successful events that
were held in 2009 and 2011 in Chile, and invites you to submit an abstract.
The goal of the first LAND workshop, held in March 2009, was to gather
together researchers in the fields of Location and Network Design. In
parallel, the TRANSLOG Workshop, organized in December 2009, focused on
Transportation and Logistics. However, it included topics that
overlapped with those in the LAND Workshop, and attracted people that
would feel comfortable attending both workshops. In December 2011 we
took one more step in promoting interaction and exchange of ideas among
people coming from the two fields, and organized the joint event
LAND-TRANSLOG II, which was very successful in exploring common
interests and learning how researchers from other fields address the
same or similar problems. In 2013, our group also organized the last
TRISTAN Conference in the North of Chile. After that effort, and with
the intention of keeping continuity in this interaction of very
interesting and fruitful research topics, we decided to organize a new
version of the LAND – TRANSLOG series, to be held in the Hotel Santa
Cruz Plaza, in the beautiful town of Santa Cruz-Chile, in March 13 – 17
next year.
Presentations are encouraged focusing on theory, modeling or
applications of Location and Network Design, including but not limited
to Health, Energy, Telecommunications, Retail, Natural Resources,
Environment, etc.; presentations dealing with methodology, including
exact methods, heuristics and simulation are also welcome. From the
transport and logistics side, the workshop will include topics spanning
classic problems in transportation and logistics, planning and control
strategies, fleet management, routing, timetabling and vehicle
scheduling, crew scheduling, real-time optimization of operational
schemes, among other areas of interest.
Confirmed Speakers
- Richard Church, University of California-Santa Barbara
- Leandro Coelho, Université Laval, Quebec
- Michel Gendreau, École Polythecnique de Montréal
- Abilio Lucena, Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro
- Vladimir Marianov, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile
- Stefan Nickel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- George Nemhauser, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Mikael Ronqvist, Université Laval, Quebec
- Vedat Verter, McGill University, Montréal
Important Dates & General Information
- Abstract submission: November 25th, 2015
- Maximum abstract length: 500 words
- Acceptance date: November 25th, 2015
- Workshop: March 13-17, 2015
- Early Registration: January 10th, 2015
- Venue: Hotel Santa Cruz Plaza, Santa Cruz, Chile
- Abstract submission and more information: www.land-translog.cl
<http://www.land-translog.cl>
<http://www.isci.cl/language/es/>
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Dear EWGLA members,
Please find enclosed our "extended" call for papers for the special
issue on
Computational Optimization Methods in Logistics
of EJCO.
Best
Bahar
FIRST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
VeRoLog2016
The fifth meeting of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and
Logistics Optimization - VeRoLog
*Nantes, France, June 6-8 *
http://verolog2016.sciencesconf.org/
The fifth meeting of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and
Logistics Optimization will take place at the Mines Nantes Graduate
School of Engineering, in Nantes 6-8 June 2016.
The VeRoLog conference is an annual meeting bringing together the large
community of researchers and practitioners interested in vehicle routing
optimization and its relationship with logistics. The conference is open
to high quality methodological contributions, relevant real-world
applications, and case studies from industry and the service sector.
*Abstract submission *
To participate, an abstract of 1/3 page (max. 250 words) must be
submitted electronically via the link "Submissions". Accepted abstracts
with a registered presenter will be included in the book of abstracts.
At most one presentation per registered participant will be accepted.
All selected abstracts will be presented within parallel sessions during
the conference. A list of relevant topics for the conference is given
below.
Selected high quality papers will be included in special issues of
international journals edited after the conference.
*Keynote speakers *
Michael Hewitt (Loyola University Chicago)
Recent advances in service network design
Stefan Ropke (Technical University of Denmark)
10 years of Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search (ALNS)
*Organizing committee *
Christelle Guéret (University of Angers, LARIS)
Fabien Lehuédé (Mines Nantes, IRCCyN)
Jorge E. Mendoza (Polytech Tours, LI)
Olivier Péton (Mines Nantes, IRCCyN)
Marc Sevaux (University of South Brittany, LabSTICC)
*Important dates *
Jan 06, 2016: submission deadline
March 01, 2016: acceptance notification
April 01, 2016: camera ready submission deadline
April 15, 2016: early bird registration closes
May 18, 2016: registration closes
*Registration *
Early student: 250 euros
Late Student: 350 euros
Early regular: 350 euros
Late regular: 450 euros
The fee includes lunch and coffee breaks, the social program and
conference dinner.
*Follow us on Facebook and Twitter: *
http://www.facebook.com/verolog2016http://www.twitter.com/verolog2016
*Research topics include but are not limited to: *
+ Decision support systems in logistics
+ State-of-the-art methods for exact solution of routing and
logistic optimization problems
+ Innovative methods for heuristic solutions of routing and
logistics optimization problems
+ Planning tools and tool-based environments for routing and logistics
+ Design and management of logistic infrastructure and networks
+ Analysis and evaluation of environmental impact induced by
logistics (e.g., air and noise pollution)
+ Sustainable design and operation of logistic facilities
+ Integrated planning and control of logistic infrastructures
+ Analysis of logistic operations
+ Heuristic and meta-heuristic implementation in logistic-related
models
+ ERP and information systems-related applications in logistics
+ Geographic information systems related to routing and logistics
+ On-board navigation and positioning systems
+ Dynamic routing optimization
+ Strategies and operations of logistic service providers
+ Service integration of agents or carriers within the logistics
industry
+ Consolidation and distribution for agents or shippers within the
logistics industry
+ Cooperation in intermodal supply chains
+ Fleet management
Dear colleagues,
Here you have a wonderful opportunity to participate in an exciting conference in Edinburgh just before EURO in Glasgow starts.
Best,
Sergio.
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Call for Papers
13th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization
July 8-10, 2015: Edinburgh
http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/hall/EUROPT15/
EUROPT2015 is the annual event of the EUROPT continuous optimization working group of EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies). This is the 13th such workshop and is held in collaboration with the EURO 2015 conference to be held in Glasgow on July 12-15 2015.
Talks should be related to continuous optimization theory, algorithms, software or applications. It is expected that there will be a particular focus on large-scale optimization and linear algebra techniques in optimization.
Plenary speakers confirmed:
Sven Leyffer (Argonne National Laboratory)
Lieven Vandenberghe (University of California, Los Angeles)
Serge Gratton (CERFACS-IRIT, Toulouse)
Abstracts (max one page *.pdf) should be submitted to EUROPT15(a)maths.ed.ac.uk by March 27 2015
Registration will open in due course, with the fees having been set as £150 (Standard) and £75 (PhD student) before May 15 2015. Afterwards the respective fees will be £200 and £100.
Well priced accommodation has been booked for the nights before, during and after the conference, and details of how to reserve a room will be published in due course.
We hope you will want to take this opportunity to visit Edinburgh and contribute to advances in continuous optimization.
Julian Hall and Jacek Gondzio
Chairs of the Organising and Programme Committees for EUROPT2015
Dear friends,
The organizing committee of Land-Translog III would very much appreciate if this CFA could be sent to EWGLA members.
Please, let me know.
Best Regards,
Vlad
Vladimir Marianov
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Call for Abstracts
LAND - TRANSLOG III
Joint Workshop on Location and Network Design - Transportation and Logistic
Santa Cruz, Chile. March 13 - 17, 2016
www.land-translog.cl<http://www.land-translog.cl/>
The Complex Engineering Systems Institute (ISCI) has the pleasure to announce the Workshop LAND - TRANSLOG III, a special joint workshop, which is a continuation of a series of previous successful events that were held in 2009 and 2011 in Chile, and invites you to submit an abstract.
The goal of the first LAND workshop, held in March 2009, was to gather together researchers in the fields of Location and Network Design. In parallel, the TRANSLOG Workshop, organized in December 2009, focused on Transportation and Logistics. However, it included topics that overlapped with those in the LAND Workshop, and attracted people that would feel comfortable attending both workshops. In December 2011 we took one more step in promoting interaction and exchange of ideas among people coming from the two fields, and organized the joint event LAND-TRANSLOG II, which was very successful in exploring common interests and learning how researchers from other fields address the same or similar problems. In 2013, our group also organized the last TRISTAN Conference in the North of Chile. After that effort, and with the intention of keeping continuity in this interaction of very interesting and fruitful research topics, we decided to organize a new version of the LAND - TRANSLOG series, to be held in the Hotel Santa Cruz Plaza, in the beautiful town of Santa Cruz-Chile, in March 13 - 17 next year.
Presentations are encouraged focusing on theory, modeling or applications of Location and Network Design, including but not limited to Health, Energy, Telecommunications, Retail, Natural Resources, Environment, etc.; presentations dealing with methodology, including exact methods, heuristics and simulation are also welcome. From the transport and logistics side, the workshop will include topics spanning classic problems in transportation and logistics, planning and control strategies, fleet management, routing, timetabling and vehicle scheduling, crew scheduling, real-time optimization of operational schemes, among other areas of interest.
Confirmed Speakers
- Richard Church, University of California-Santa Barbara
- Leandro Coelho, Université Laval, Quebec
- Michel Gendreau, École Polythecnique de Montréal
- Abilio Lucena, Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro
- Vladimir Marianov, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile
- Stefan Nickel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- George Nemhauser, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Mikael Ronqvist, Université Laval, Quebec
- Vedat Verter, McGill University, Montréal
Important Dates & General Information
- Abstract submission: October 20th, 2015
- Maximum abstract length: 500 words
- Acceptance date: November 15th, 2015
- Workshop: March 13-17, 2015
- Early Registration: January 10th, 2015
- Venue: Hotel Santa Cruz Plaza, Santa Cruz, Chile
- Abstract submission and more information: www.land-translog.cl<http://www.land-translog.cl/>
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Call for Papers
*Special issue on “Improving Healthcare: new challenges, new approaches” *
Guest Editors:
Joana Dias, INESCC/FEUC, Portugal
Humberto Rocha, INESCC, Portugal
Ana Viana, ISEP/INESC TEC, Portugal
The International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR) will
publish a Special Issue dedicated to “Improving Healthcare: new
challenges, new approaches”.
Recent advances in medicine allow us to live longer and healthier lives.
These advances have been made possible through the joint contribution of
very different scientific fields. Healthcare is nowadays better
understood as a multidisciplinary field, with increasing number of
challenges that can be better tackled by joint collaboration of
researchers with different scientific backgrounds. Operational Research
can significantly contribute to tackle many of the current and
forthcoming challenges.
Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics, including but not
limited to:
·Location and allocation problems in healthcare
·Healthcare logistics
·Planning and scheduling healthcare delivery
·Optimization in radiotherapy
·Healthcare information systems
·Medical data mining
·Health economics - costing and pricing of health services
·Disease modelling
·Risk assessment and prioritisation
Although we strongly encourage the submission of papers presented at
XXXI Euro Mini Conference on Improving Healthcare that took place in
Coimbra, Portugal, from March 30 to April 1 2015, this Call for Papers
is also open to the entire community of academics and practitioners.
All papers will be peer-reviewed according to the editorial policy of
ITOR (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118505725/home),
published by the International Federation of Operational Research
Societies (IFORS). Papers should be original, unpublished, and not
currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. They should be
prepared according to the instructions to authors that can be found in
the journal homepage. Authors should upload their contributions using
the submission site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/itor, indicating in
their cover letter that the paper is intended for this special issue.
The deadline for submissions is *October 31*, 2015. Other inquiries
should be sent directly to any of the Guest Editors in charge of this
issue: Joana Dias (joana(a)fe.uc.pt), Humberto Rocha (hrocha(a)mat.uc.pt),
and Ana Viana (aviana(a)inescporto.pt).
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that our special issue on Recent Advances in Location Analysis has been published as part of Volume 62 of Computers & Operations Research.
We received a total of 64 submissions addressing various problems in the context of location analysis. At the end of the reviewing process, 19 papers were accepted to be published. We have excellent contributions in this special issue. You may find the online publication of the issue in the following link:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03050548/62
We would like thank all of those who contributed to this special issue. In particular, all the authors for submitting and revising their work and all the reviewers for their valuable time and constructive criticism which certainly improved the quality of all the publications.
Special Issue Editors
Sibel A. Alumur and Bahar Y. Kara
Dear Colleagues,
I have written some questions about the EWGLA 2015 meeting on the form
http://goo.gl/forms/QrhNiv4RTx
so that we can have a good approximation on the participants for all social
events.
It would also help to prepare the necessary invoices and certificates for
the registration.
I kindly ask all of you who are coming to the meeting to fill it out before
Monday, it takes at most 2 minutes.
Thanks a lot, and see you soon!
Boglárka G.-Tóth