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FW: Location Analysis Section : Call for Nominations: Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis
by KALCSICS Joerg 23 May '17

23 May '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Church via INFORMS <Mail(a)connectedcommunity.org<mailto:Mail@connectedcommunity.org>> Date: Thu, May 18, 2017 at 9:56 AM Subject: Location Analysis Section : Call for Nominations: Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis To: church(a)geog.ucsb.edu<mailto:church@geog.ucsb.edu> Dear Colleagues: This is a call for Nominations for the Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis Award. The Lifetime Achievement in Location... Location Analysis Section <http://connect.informs.org/sola/sola/ourdiscussiongroup/digestviewer/?Commu…> Post New Message Online<http://connect.informs.org/participate/postmessage/?GroupId=25> Post New Message<mailto:INFORMS-locationanalysis@ConnectedCommunity.org> Call for Nominations: Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis<http://connect.informs.org/sola/ourdiscussiongroup/viewthread/?MessageKey=3…> Reply to Group Online<http://connect.informs.org/sola/ourdiscussiongroup/postreply/?MessageKey=35…> Reply to Group via Email<mailto:INFORMS_locationanalysis_35c7933a-d651-49eb-909b-c1c1d4f2d005@ConnectedCommunity.org?subject=Re:+Call+for+Nominations:+Lifetime+Achievement+in+Location+Analysis> Reply to Sender<http://connect.informs.org/sola/ourdiscussiongroup/postreply/?MessageKey=35…> [Richard Church]<http://connect.informs.org/network/members/profile/?UserKey=3b1dc8ac-f65f-4…> May 18, 2017 12:57 PM Richard Church <http://connect.informs.org/network/members/profile/?UserKey=3b1dc8ac-f65f-4…> Dear Colleagues: This is a call for Nominations for the Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis Award. The Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis (LALA) award is a triennial honor awarded to a person who has made significant lifetime contributions to location analysis research. The award is given every third year at the closing dinner of ISOLDE, which will be held this summer in Toronto. Nominations will be received until May 31, 2017. The nomination process consists of sending by email the following three items: (1) A short letter of nomination, including significant reasons why this individual should be considered for this award. (2) An up-to-date curriculum vita of the nominee. (3) Information about citations and service to the profession for the nominee. All nominations should be sent to Richard Church <rickchurch(a)ucsb.edu<mailto:rickchurch@ucsb.edu>> by 31 May, 2017. The selection committee consist of: Mark Daskin mdaskin(a)umich.edu<mailto:mdaskin@umich.edu> University of Michigan Gilbert Laporte gilbert.laporte(a)cirrelt.ca<mailto:gilbert.laporte@cirrelt.ca> HEC-Canada Richard Church University of California, Santa Barbara ------------------------------ Richard Church Professor University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA ------------------------------ View Thread<http://connect.informs.org/sola/ourdiscussiongroup/viewthread/?MessageKey=3…> Recommend<http://connect.informs.org/sola/ourdiscussiongroup/viewthread/?MessageKey=3…> Forward<http://connect.informs.org/sola/ourdiscussiongroup/forwardmessages/?Message…> You are subscribed to "Location Analysis Section" as church(a)geog.ucsb.edu<mailto:church@geog.ucsb.edu>. To change your subscriptions, go to My Subscriptions<http://connect.informs.org/preferences?section=Subscriptions>. To unsubscribe from this community discussion, go to Unsubscribe<http://connect.informs.org/HigherLogic/eGroups/Unsubscribe.aspx?UserKey=3b1…>. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT of the congress DISCRETE MATHEMATICS DAYS 2018 (DMD2018), Sevilla (Spain), June 27-29, 2018
by Sergio García Quiles 23 May '17

23 May '17

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** DISCRETE MATHEMATICS DAYS 2018, Sevilla (Spain), June 27-29, 2018 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT – DMD2018 - http://congreso.us.es/dmd2018 The Discrete Mathematics Days will be held on June 27-29, 2018, at the School of Computer Science of the University of Seville, Spain. The main focus of this international conference is on current topics in Discrete Mathematics, including (but not limited to): Algorithms and Complexity, Combinatorics, Coding Theory, Cryptography, Discrete and Computational Geometry, Discrete Optimization, Graph Theory, and*Location and Related Problems*. The previous edition of this conference was held in Barcelona (2016) inheriting the tradition of the Jornadas de Matemática Discreta y Algorítmica (JMDA), the Spanish biennial meeting (since 1998) on Discrete Mathematics. The scientific program will include invited talks and contributed talks, selected on the basis of an extended abstract which will be published in the Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (ENDM). Invited speakers: Albert Atserias, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Sergio Cabello, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Andrea Scozzari, Università Niccolò Cusano di Roma, Italy Julia Wolf, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Important dates: Abstract submission deadline: March 25th, 2018 Notification of acceptance of abstract: April 30th, 2018 Final versions due: May 20th, 2018 Early registration deadline: May 18th, 2018 Late registration: May 19th – June 15th, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Looking forward to seeing you in Sevilla. Delia Garijo on behalf of the Organizing Committee. http://congreso.us.es/dmd2018 The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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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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EWGLA Newsletter (March 2017)
by Olivier Péton 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

------------------------------------------------------------------------ *EWGLA Newsletter // March 2017** * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *SAVE THE DATE**EWGLA XXIV Meeting* Dear EWGLA members, We are pleased to confirm you the date in which the EWGLA conference in *Edinburgh *will be organized. This will be from*May 23 to May 25, 2018. * Best regards, Jörg and Sergio. ** * * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *ISOLDE XIV, Toronto, Canada, July 10-14, 2017* http://inside.rotman.utoronto.ca/ISOLDE/ April 15, 2017: Early Registration ends, Regular Registration begins; Confirmation of acceptance/attendance by applicants due ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IFORS 2017 Quebec City, Canada, July 1721, 2017 * There will be a Area called "Location, Logistics, Transportation, Traffic ", with at least two lacoation sessions (Recent Advances in Location Analysis, and Location (contributed)) http://ifors2017.ca/areas <http://ifors2017.ca/areas> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Optimization 2017, Lisbon, Portugal, September 6-8, 2017* http://optimization2017.fc.ul.pt/ <http://ifors2017.ca/areas> The main purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different areas and backgrounds, but with common interests in optimization. This meeting has international recognition as an important forum of discussion and exchange of ideas. It is the 9th edition of a series of international conferences in optimization organized in Portugal under the auspices of APDIO (the Portuguese Operations Research Society). I would like to see (at least) one Location session in the program of the conference. So, in case you consider attending this meeting, please, contact me directly (fsgama(a)fc.ul.pt <mailto:fsgama@fc.ul.pt>) so that I organize the session. My idea would be to attract to this conference some locators from abroad. I look forward to hearing from you and possibly to meeting you in September in Lisbon. All the best, Francisco Saldanha Da Gama fsgama(a)fc.ul.pt <http://ifors2017.ca/areas> <http://ifors2017.ca/areas> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *VIII International Workshop on Locational Analysis and Related Problems*. Segovia, Spain. September 27-29, 2017 http://redloca.ulpgc.es/en/workshop.html Deadline for abstracts (2 pages maximum): May 31, 2017 The inscription is 100€ per participant. Contact: antonio.rodriguezchia(a)uca.es ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IESM 2017, Saarbrücken, Germany, October 11-13, 2017* http://www.iesm17.org/ Due to several requests, the deadline for authors to submit papers has been extended until *April 17, 2017*. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *CIE 47, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-13 October, 2017* Sumission deadline : April 20, 2017 http://www.cie47.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *INFORMS 2017 Annual meeting, Houston, US, October 22-25, 2017* http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/houston2017/ I will serve as the SOLA Cluster chair for the INFORMS 2017 Annual Meeting in Houston. If you are planning to organize a SOLA sponsored session, please let me know with your tentative session title by April 13, then I can set up your session in the system. In addition, if your are planning to organize a practice-oriented session or a joint session between two INFORMS communities, please let me know. FYI, the deadline for abstract submission is May 2nd. I am waiting for your reply! Best regards, Mihiro Sasaki Contact : mihiro(a)nanzan-u.ac.jp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Other events (with Location related sessions)** ** ****VeRoLog 2017*, July 9-12, Amsterdam, The netherlands http://verolog2017.sciencesconf.org/ <http://verolog2016.sciencesconf.org/> Registrations opens on April 3rd. <http://verolog2016.sciencesconf.org/> *TSL conference 2017** *Loyola University, Chicao, July 26-29, 2017 **Abstract submission deadline (extended): 1/5/2017 *TSL Workshop on E-commerce and Urban Logistics. * Hong Kong, January 8-10, 2018. Abstract submission deadline: July 7^th , 2017 http://connect.informs.org/tsl/home ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Computers & Operations Research. Special Issue**on **Recent Advances in Hub Location* *Guest Editors*: Sibel A. Alumur, James F. Campbell The deadline for submission to the special issue is *October 1, 2017*. https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-operations-research/call-fo… ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Open Position Assistant/Associate Professor in Optimization and Industrial Engineering at IMT Atlantique (Nantes, France)** * Teaching experience required in some of the following subjects is required: Industrial engineering, Combinatorial optimization, Robust optimization and decision making. Research in the fields of the Logistics and Production Systems team: design, planning and scheduling of production systems, optimization of transportation and logistics networks, risk assessment and control in services and industrial systems. Research experience in production scheduling, in particular in a stochastic, robust or dynamic context, will be appreciated. *Citizenship**of a European Community country required.* For further information, contact Alexandre Dolgui, Head of DAPI – alexandre.dolgui(a)imt-atlantique.fr – tél : +33 2 51 85 82 18 The deadline for submitting an application is 23 April 2017. Website of Institut Mines Telecom Atlantique: http://www.imt-atlantique.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *About EWGLA: * Our group has 255 members (/March 30, 2017/). This number appears to be quite stable. In reality, around 35 new members have registered in the last year, and an equivalent number of old email addresses were removed from the database. The "official" way of becoming a member is to register to the mailing list. We also have pages/accounts on several social networks. - Web page:https://www.euro-online.org/ewgla/ <https://www.euro-online.org/ewgla/> - Mailing list: How to register: https://www.euro-online.org/ewgla/index.php?option=com_chronocontact&ch… How to post a message: ewgla(a)euro-online.org How to contact the coordination board: ewgla-board(a)euro-online.org - LinkedIn (52 members): https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4729361 - Twitter (56 followers): https://twitter.com/ewgla - Facebook (107 like): https://www.facebook.com/ewgla/ Please invite your colleagues and students interested in locational analysis to register, click, like, follow us and communicate with us. Mars 2017 /Sergio García-Quiles Jörg Kalcsics// Olivier Péton/ -- -- IMT Atlantique <http://www.imt-atlantique.fr> *Olivier PÉTON* Enseignant Chercheur +33 251 85 83 13 olivier.peton(a)imt-atlantique.fr 4 rue Alfred Kastler 44307 Nantes Cedex 3 Site web IMT Atlantique <http://www.imt-atlantique.fr>Twitter IMT Atlantique <https://twitter.com/IMTAtlantique>Facebook IMT Atlantique <https://www.facebook.com/IMTAtlantique>Google+ IMT Atlantique <https://plus.google.com/109356934816329928502>LinkedIn IMT Atlantique <https://www.linkedin.com/company/imt-france>Blog IMT Atlantique <http://blogrecherche.wp.imt.fr> Une école de l'IMT <https://www.imt.fr>

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Special issue of IIE Transactions
by Bahar Yetis 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Dear EWGLA Members FYI :) Bahar Call for Papers: Contribu2ons to Humanitarian Logis.cs Special Issue of IISE Transactions Focus Issue on Scheduling and Logistics Purpose Disasters around world claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and led to US$1.5 trillion lost between 2005 and 2015, according to The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. On the other hand, as much as 80 percent of disaster relief expenditures go toward logistics. Therefore, humanitarian logistics is a key element of a disaster relief process. The purpose of this special issue is to publish rigorous research around emerging themes in the area of Humanitarian logistics, such as the process of planning, implementing, and controlling the efficient, cost-effective flow and storage of goods, and materials, as well as related information, from point of origin to the point of consumption for the purpose of alleviating the suffering of vulnerable people. We would welcome contribuAons across a wide range of issues. Topics for this SI may include but are not limited to: ● Humanitarian logistics and supply chain management ● The use of technology enable real-time monitoring ● Humanitarian operations evaluation ● Coordination within organizations and collaboration among organizations ● Predictive analytics for demand planning ● Inventory planning and control ● Transportation networks design and vehicle routing ● Medical supply delivery Important dates • Manuscript submission deadline: September 1, 2017 • NoAficaAon of disposiAon of the manuscript: December 31, 2017 • Final revisions due: March 1, 2018 Submission Process Authors should submit their paper through Scholar One's Manuscript Central online manuscript submission system at hWp://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iietransacAons <hwp://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iietransacAons>. Please follow the instructions carefully. When queried, indicate the paper is being submitted to a Special Issue, identify the special issue as Contributions to Humanitarian Logistics and select Rajan Batta as the preferred Editor. Special Issue Editors Rajan Batta, University at Buffalo, USA (baWa(a)buffalo.edu <mailto:baWa@buffalo.edu>) Bahar Yetis Kara Bilkent University, Turkey (bkara(a)bilkent.edu.tr <mailto:bkara@bilkent.edu.tr>) Simin Huang, Tsinghua University, China (huangsimin(a)tsinghua.edu.cn <mailto:huangsimin@tsinghua.edu.cn>)

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Location sessions at INFORMS-Houston, Oct. 22-25, 2017
by Mihiro Sasaki 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

Dear EWGLA members I will serve as the SOLA Cluster chair for the INFORMS 2017 Annual Meeting in Houston (http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/houston2017/) If you are planning to organize a SOLA sponsored session, please let me know with your tentative session title by April 13, then I can set up your session in the system. In addition, if your are planning to organize a practice-oriented session or a joint session between two INFORMS communities, please let me know. FYI, the deadline for abstract submission is May 2nd. I am waiting for your reply! Best regards, 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 www.seto.nanzan-u.ac.jp/~mihiro<http://www.seto.nanzan-u.ac.jp/~mihiro/>

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Position of Assistant/Associate Professor (fr. Maître Assistant) in Optimization and Industrial Engineering at IMT Atlantique , Nantes, France
by Olivier Péton 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

Dear colleagues, We have a permanent position open in Optimization and Industrial Engineering. Don't hesitate to contact Alexandre Dolgui (alexandre.dolgui(a)imt-atlantique.fr – tél : +33 2 51 85 82 18) or myself for further information. Olivier ======================================================================= Position of Assistant/Associate Professor (fr. Maître Assistant) in Optimization and Industrial Engineering at IMT Atlantique (Nantes, France) ==================================================================== IMT Atlantique (École Nationale Supérieure Mines-Télécom Atlantique Bretagne Pays de la Loire) is an elite graduate school of engineering and international research center under the authority of the French Ministry of Industry and Digital Communication. Resulting from the recent merger on 1 January 2017 of Télécom-Bretagne and Mines-Nantes, it is a school of the Institut Mines-Télécom (the leading group in France for study and research in engineering and management: includes 12 engineering institutes and 1 business school located throughout France). Based on 3 different campuses (Brest, Rennes and Nantes), IMT Atlantique aims to combine energy and digital technology to transform society and industry through education, research and innovation in order to become an international reference in this area. Each year, IMT Atlantique guides approximately 2.300 students in engineering, Masters of Science and Ph.D. programs. Its research activities, at the crossroads of business and higher education, are led by 290 researchers which produce over 1000 publications each year and 18M € of funded research and development. Its courses are based on cutting-edge research performed in 6 joint research laboratories: GEPEA, IRISA, LATIM, Lab-STICC, LS2N and SUBATECH. The Department of Automation, Production and Computer Sciences (DAPI: Département Automatique, Productique et Informatique) of IMT Atlantique is located on the Nantes Campus. The department employs around one hundred people, forty of which are full professors or assistant/associate professors (fr. Maître Assistant). The research topics of DAPI include Control, Robotics, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematical Decision Making, and Software Engineering. DAPI is a member of the LS2N CNRS research laboratory (http://ls2n.fr/) recently created from the merging of the IRCCyN and LINA laboratories. The candidate will be integrated into the Optimization and Decision Aiding group of DAPI and the Logistics and Production System (SLP) Team of LS2N. The research in SLP focuses on analyzing, modeling and solving optimization and decision making problems which appear in logistics and production systems at strategic, tactical and operational levels. The candidate will be asked to focus his research on domains related to the Factories of the Future (FoF) initiative of the European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. Collaboration with the other IMT Atlantique/LS2N team, TASC, in constraint programming, will be encouraged. The candidate will teach in the industrial engineering and optimization curriculum of IMT Atlantique, in particular the IMT Atlantique engineering programme and/or the MOST international Master of Science. (Management and Optimization of Supply Chains and Transport). Missions: The candidate will participate in education, academic and collaborative research objectives. He/she will be actively involved in local, national and international partnerships of DAPI and LS2N. He/she will be asked to take administrative responsibilities in teaching programs, research projects or institutional endeavors. Education: • The candidate will be involved in the IMT Atlantique educational programs, particularly those of the DAPI the engineering curriculum and the MOST MSc. Teaching experience in some of the following subjects is required: o Industrial engineering o Design of production systems o Production planning and scheduling o Inventory control and demand forecasting o Combinatorial optimization, robust optimization and decision making o Metaheuristics, heuristic and exact optimization algorithms o Programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, C++) • IMT Atlantique is particularly interested in qualitative and innovative teaching methods. A strong investment in pedagogical activities related to his/her courses is expected. • IMTA trains engineers for a quickly evolving industry. The capacity of the candidate to teach in this context and propose and supervise student projects in collaboration with industry is desired. Research and collaborative projects The candidate will perform his/her research in the fields of the Logistics and Production Systems team: design, planning and scheduling of production systems, optimization of transportation and logistics networks, risk assessment and control in services and industrial systems. He/she will develop optimization and decision-aiding tools in the framework of projects related to Factories of the Future (FoF). This work will be related to the optimization of production systems, logistics networks or supply chain, in connection with innovative communication technology. Research experience in production scheduling, in particular in a stochastic, robust or dynamic context, will be appreciated. The recruited candidate will be expected to publish his/her work in high-level international journals and conferences. He/she will also be expected to supervise master and PhD students’ research. His/her research will be conducted through local, national, European, and international projects. Finally, the candidate will be expected to propose collaborative research projects with industry and contribute to enhancing the overall reputation of IMT Atlantique. According to the Maître Assistant status,*the candidate must have the nationality of a European Community country, member of EEC.* He/she will have strong competences in optimization and industrial engineering as well as: • Skill and motivation for teaching and research, in particular in connection with industry. • Ability to propose, obtain, and participate in research and applied research projects. • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work in projects. • Open-minded, self-assessment capacity. • Interest and openness to the world of business and innovation in education. • Scientific publications. • Excellent practice of English. • Good computer programming skills. APPLICATION DETAILS For further information, contact Alexandre Dolgui, Head of DAPI – alexandre.dolgui(a)imt-atlantique.fr – tél : +33 2 51 85 82 18 The deadline for submitting an application is 23 April 2017. To obtain the complete application dossier, please contact Human Resource Services: Florence MOULET–florence.moulet(a)imt-atlantique.fr - tél : +33 2 51 85 83 63 or Jean-Philippe ROULLAND –jean-philippe.roulland(a)imt-atlantique.fr – tél: +33 2 51 85 83 54 Institut Mines Telecom Atlantique 4 rue Alfred Kastler BP 20722 44307 Nantes CEDEX 3. Website of Institut Mines Telecom Atlantique:http://www.imt-atlantique.fr -- IMT Atlantique <http://www.imt-atlantique.fr> *Olivier PÉTON* Enseignant Chercheur +33 251 85 83 13 olivier.peton(a)imt-atlantique.fr 4 rue Alfred Kastler 44307 Nantes Cedex 3 Site web IMT Atlantique <http://www.imt-atlantique.fr>Twitter IMT Atlantique <https://twitter.com/IMTAtlantique>Facebook IMT Atlantique <https://www.facebook.com/IMTAtlantique>Google+ IMT Atlantique <https://plus.google.com/109356934816329928502>LinkedIn IMT Atlantique <https://www.linkedin.com/company/imt-france>Blog IMT Atlantique <http://blogrecherche.wp.imt.fr> Une école de l'IMT <https://www.imt.fr>

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Special Issue Metaheuristics in Cloud Computing - Journal of Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley Press)
by CfP Metaheuristics in Cloud Computing 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

Journal of Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley Press) / International Conference on Metaheuristics (MIC) Special Issue on Metaheuristics in Cloud Computing Guest Editors: Leonard Heilig, Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz, Stefan Voß, Rajkumar Buyya ** Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward this CfP to anyone who may be interested to contribute to this Special Issue. ** Dear colleagues, We cordially invite you to contribute to this special issue of the Journal of Software: Practice and Experience. The peer-reviewed journal has a long and successful history (1971-now) of publishing and has expanded its coverage to specifically include cloud computing in recent years. Please submit your manuscript electronically via ScholarOne (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spe <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spe>) by selecting the manuscript type Special Issue - Metaheuristics in Cloud Computing until September 15, 2017. Accepted peer-reviewed manuscripts will be indexed by Web of Science (WoS), Scopus, ProQuest, EBSCO, ACM Digital Library, Google Scholar, among others. * TOPICS: We invite high quality papers either on the use of metaheuristics for solving related optimization problems or the application and assessment of metaheuristics within cloud environments for solving well-known optimization problems. Topics of interests include but are not limited to: Mathematical modeling and optimization of cloud-related problems (e.g., resource allocation, scheduling, redundancy allocation, (big) data management) Application of metaheuristics in cloud computing and fog computing environments Metaheuristics for energy management, (big) data management, security, and reliability Metaheuristics for cloud brokerage Application of metaheuristics to support decision making in different domains (e.g., logistics, smart cities, etc.) Distributed and parallel metaheuristics Design and development of cloud-based decision support systems For more information, please visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-024X/homepage/spe… <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-024X/homepage/spe…> and select Special Issue on: Metaheuristics in Cloud Computing <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-024X/asset/homepage…> * IMPORTANT DATES: Submission: September 15, 2017 Notification: November 15, 2017 Revision due: January 15, 2018 Notification of final acceptance: February 15, 2018 Notification of final revised paper: March 15, 2018 * SPECIAL ISSUE PAPER SUBMISSION: This special issue seeks submission of papers that present novel and innovative ideas. It also welcomes submissions of extended versions of the best selected papers presented in the related special track of the International Conference on Metaheuristics (MIC). All submissions including invited papers go under regular peer review process. We seek submission of papers that present new, original and innovative ideas for the "first" time in SPE. Submission of "extended versions" of already published works (e.g., conference papers) is not encouraged unless they contain a significant number of "new and original" ideas/contributions along with more than 50% brand "new" material. If you are submitting an extended version, you must submit a cover letter/document detailing (1) the "Summary of Differences" between the SPE paper and the earlier paper, (2) a clear list of "new and original" ideas/contributions in the SPE paper (identifying sections where they are proposed/presented), and (3) confirming the percentage of new material. Otherwise, the submission will be "desk" rejected without being reviewed. If you have a paper on cloud computing which does not match the requirements of the Special Issue, we encourage you to submit it as a regular paper to Software: Practice and Experience. The journal has expanded its coverage to specifically include cloud computing. While submitting paper to this issue, please select Special Issue - Metaheuristics in Cloud Computing in the submission system (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spe <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spe>). * GUEST EDITORS: Leonard Heilig (contact for submission queries) Institute of Information Systems, University of Hamburg, Germany Email: leonard.heilig(a)uni-hamburg.de <mailto:leonard.heilig@uni-hamburg.de> Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz Institute of Information Systems, University of Hamburg, Germany Stefan Voß Institute of Information Systems, University of Hamburg, Germany Rajkumar Buyya Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia

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Optimization 2017.
by Francisco Saldanha da Gama 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Dear Locators, In the beginning of September (6−8) there will be a conference held in my Faculty―Optimization 2017 (http://optimization2017.fc.ul.pt/) The main purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different areas and backgrounds, but with common interests in optimization. This meeting has international recognition as an important forum of discussion and exchange of ideas. It is the 9th edition of a series of international conferences in optimization organized in Portugal under the auspices of APDIO (the Portuguese Operations Research Society). I would like to see (at least) one Location session in the program of the conference. So, in case you consider attending this meeting, please, contact me directly (fsgama(a)fc.ul.pt <mailto:fsgama@fc.ul.pt> ) so that I organize the session. My idea would be to attract to this conference some locators from abroad. I look forward to hearing from you and possibly to meeting you in September in Lisbon. All the best, Francisco. Francisco Saldanha da Gama Departamento de Estatística e Investigação Operacional Centro de Matemática, Aplicações Fundamentais e Investigação Operacional Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal Phone: +351 217 500 019 | Fax: +351 217500081 | E-mail: <mailto:fsgama@fc.ul.pt> fsgama(a)ciencias.ulisboa.pt <http://webpages.fc.ul.pt/~faconceicao> http://webpages.fc.ul.pt/~faconceicao <http://www.deio.fc.ul.pt/> www.deio.fc.ul.pt | <http://www.fc.ul.pt/> www.fc.ul.pt | <http://www.fc.ul.pt/en/unidade/cmafcio> http://www.fc.ul.pt/en/unidade/cmafcio Editor-in-Chief Computers & Operations Research <http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-operations-research> http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-operations-research

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ISOLDE Third Announcement
by Dmitry Krass 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Is it possible to post the attached (this is the last announcement). Thanks! Dmitry Krass Professor of Operations Management and Statistics Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto 105 St. George st., Toronto, ON, M5S 3E6 (416)978-7180

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