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Grants for participation in EWGLA 2016 in Málaga
by KALCSICS Joerg 11 Feb '16

11 Feb '16

Dear Locators, this year’s EWGLA conference will be held in Málaga, Spain, and we hope to meet you all there (ewgla2016.lcc.uma.es). To ensure that we really do meet everybody (well, at least almost everybody), we are pleased to announce that EWGLA is offering a number of grants for participants. These grants will cover your expenses up to a maximum of €750. Eligible expenses are costs for travel & accommodation and the conference fee. To apply, you have to be a EWGLA member and should send the following documents as a single pdf by e-mail to the EWGLA Board (ewgla-board at euro-online.org) - An extended abstract of at least two full pages, - Your CV, and - A letter of recommendation from your supervisor, if you are a PhD student. The deadline for applications is: Friday, 11 March. Decisions about grants will be made by Friday, 1 April. We especially encourage young researchers and researchers from economically weak countries to apply. We would appreciate if you could forward this announcement to your PhD students in case they are not yet members of EWGLA and, of course, encourage them to become EWGLA members! If you have questions about the application or the grant, please do not hesitate to contact us. See you all in Málaga, Sergio Garcia-Quiles Jörg Kalcsics Olivier Peton The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Associate Professor position (Industrial Engineering/ Optimization under uncertainty) at Mines Nantes
by Olivier Péton 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

Dear colleagues, Mines Nantes Graduate School of engineering <http://www.mines-nantes.fr/en/>invites applications for a tenure track position (assistant/associate professor) in the department of Automatic Control, Production and Computer Science.. The general topic is *Industrial Engineering**,* with a focus on *optimization under uncertainty*. TEACHING : in our Industrial Engineering programmes (graduate school or international master of science). Teaching experience in one or several of the following topics is required: reliability, maintenance, risk analysis, optimization under uncertainty, simulation/discrete event systems. RESEARCH : We are hiring a colleague with skills in stochastic optimization applied to one or several fo the following topics: risk management, production planning and sheduling, logistics networks, supply chain design and optimization, vehicle routing etc. Moreover, a strong involvement in collaborative research projects with industrials is expected. Although the job description is written only in French, all European citizens may apply. Teaching can be done either in French or English, Here follows a part of the (very long) job description. Don't hesitate to contact Alexandre Dolgui (alexandre.dolgui(a)mines-nantes.fr) or myself for more details. The deadline for aplying is february 22nd Best regards, Olivier Péton ---------------------- L’ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES recrute un Maître Assistant en Génie Industriel spécialité Optimisation sous Incertitude Statut administratif : Maître assistant des Mines et des Télécom, fonctionnaire du Ministère de l’Economie et des Finances. MISSIONS Le candidat recruté participera aux missions de formation, de recherche et de valorisation. Il devra s’impliquer activement dans les partenariats régionaux, nationaux et internationaux du département Automatique, Productique et Informatique et de l’UMR LS2N. Il sera appelé à exercer des responsabilités dans la formation et dans les relations avec les acteurs de l’innovation. - Enseignement : Il est attendu que le candidat recruté s’implique dans l’ensemble des enseignements de l’école, notamment dans la formation d'approfondissement du cycle d'ingénieur en Génie Industriel, mais également dans le master MOST, ainsi que dans les projets. Une expérience d’enseignement ou des compétences acquises dans un ou plusieurs des domaines suivants sont fortement attendues : o fiabilité et maintenance ; o analyse de risques ; o optimisation sous incertitudes ; o simulation à événements discrets ; o optimisation via simulation. La capacité et la volonté de s’impliquer en management de formations, en particulier du master MOST, seront appréciées. - Recherche et Valorisation : Le candidat réalisera ses recherche en relation avec un ou plusieurs thèmes développés au sein de l’équipe SLP : maîtrise des risques pour les systèmes industriels et les services ; planification et ordonnancement de la production et des activités ; conception et optimisation des systèmes de production, des réseaux logistiques et du transport. Il développera notamment des outils d’optimisation et d’aide à la décision pour la conception et la gestion opérationnelle des systèmes logistiques et de production sous incertitudes. Les travaux contribueront à rendre plus robustes et plus fiables les solutions proposées en présence des risques liés aux perturbations aléatoires. Leurs applications concerneront, par exemple, la conception des systèmes de production reconfigurables et des lignes de démontage de produits en fin de vie, la planification conjointe de la maintenance et de la production, la gestion des stocks de pièces de rechange, la gestion des approvisionnements dans les chaînes logistiques, l’ordonnancement sous incertitudes, l’optimisation des transports avec temps de trajets / temps de service aléatoires. Dans ce cadre, il collaborera avec les membres de l’équipe pour concevoir des modèles et algorithmes couplant optimisation combinatoire et modélisation stochastique. CONTACT Alexandre Dolgui, responsable du département Automatique Productique Informatique – alexandre.dolgui(a)mines-nantes.fr – tél : 02 51 85 82 18 La date limite pour déposer le dossier de candidature est : *le 22 février 2016.* Pour retirer un dossier d’inscription, veuillez en faire la demande auprès du Service des Ressources Humaines : Florence MOULET– florence.moulet(a)mines-nantes.fr - tél : 02 51 85 83 63 ou Jean-Philippe ROULLAND – jean-philippe.roulland(a)mines-nantes.fr – tél : 02 51 85 83 54 Ecole des Mines de Nantes 4 rue Alfred Kastler BP 20722 44307 Nantes CEDEX 3. http://www.mines-nantes.fr -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dr. Olivier Péton Enseignant - Chercheur Ecole des Mines de Nantes & IRCCyN (UMR CNRS 6597) 4 rue Alfred Kastler, 44300 Nantes Cedex, France Tel : (+33) 251.85.83.13 Email: olivier.peton(a)mines-nantes.fr ______________________________________________________________________

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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEB. 10 - 2016 INFORMS Telecommunications Conference
by Bernard Fortz 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

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VeRoLog 2016 - One week left to submit your abstract !
by Fabien LEHUEDE 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Dear colleagues, Please do not forget that you have only one week left to submit your abstract to the VeRoLog 2016 conference that will take place in Nantes in June ! http://verolog2016.sciencesconf.org Information has been added on the website to help you prepare your trip to Nantes. You may also have a look at the schedule and the social program: http://verolog2016.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/10 Due to other important events taking place in the city on the same period, we recommend that you do not to wait too much for your accommodation booking. A list of hotels is available here: http://verolog2016.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/9 Best regards, The VeRoLog 2016 organizing committee

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[EWGLA2016] Call for Papers
by Enrique 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

Dear colleagues, This is the first announcement for 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 *Scientific Committee* Sibel Alumur Alev - University of Waterloo (Canada) Pasquale Avella - University of Sannio (Italy) Giuseppe Bruno - University of Naples Federico II (Italy) James Campbell - University of Missouri St. Louis (USA) Emilio Carrizosa - University of Sevilla (Spain) Ángel Corberán - University of Valencia (Spain) Enrique Domínguez - University of Málaga (Spain) (chair) H.A. Eiselt - University of New Brunswick (Canada) Laureano F. Escudero - King Juan Carlos University (Spain) Elena Fernandez - University Politecnica de Cataluña (Spain) José Fernández - University of Murcia (Spain) Sergio García-Quiles - University of Edinburgh (UK) Ioannis Giannikos - University of Patras (Greece) Horst Hamacher - University of Kaiserslautern (Germany) Joerg Kalcsics - University of Edinburgh (UK) Dmitry Krass - University of Toronto (Canada) Martine Labbé - University Libre of Bruxelles (Belgium) Mercedes Landete Ruiz - University Miguel Hernandez of Elche (Spain) Vladimir Marianov - Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile) Alfredo Marín - University of Murcia (Spain) Juan A. Mesa - University of Sevilla (Spain) Alan Murray - University of California, Santa Barbara (USA) Stefan Nickel - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) Blas Pelegrín - University of Murcia (Spain) Olivier Péton - Ecole des Mines de Nantes (France) Justo Puerto - University of Sevilla (Spain) Antonio Rodriguez Chía - University of Cádiz (Spain) Francisco Saldanha da Gama - University of Lisbon (Portugal) Boglárka G. Tóth - Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary) *Organizing Committee* Enrique Domínguez - Chair Sergio Salguero - Technical Office Inés Aguilar - Technical Office *EWGLA Coordination Board* Sergio García Quiles - University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) Jörg Kalcsics - University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) Olivier Péton - Ecole des Mines de Nantes (France) We are looking forward to meet you in Málaga !!! Enrique Dominguez

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2016 INFORMS Telecommunications Conference
by Bernard Fortz 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

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VEROLOG 2016 call for abstracts - extended deadline
by Fabien LEHUEDE 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Dear colleagues, The deadline for submitting an abstract to the *VeRoLog 2016 *conference in Nantes is extended to *January 29* ! Please note that before submitting your abstract you need to create an account on the submission system. The validation of this account may take some time so do not hesitate to create it now if you intend to submit. Best regards, The VeRoLog 2016 committee CALL FOR ABSTRACTS VEROLOG 2016 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 * Submissions to VeRoLog 2016 are in the form of a (max.) 250-words abstracts. Abstracts should be electronically submitted via the "Submissions" link in the left menu. 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. *Special issues * Special issues of international journals with full-paper versions of the work presented in Nantes will be edited after the conference. The call for papers will be launched in late June 2016. *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 29, 2016: extended 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/verolog2016 http://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

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Call for location sessions at the EURO 2016 conference
by Olivier Péton 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Dear locators, The EURO 2016 conference will be held in Poznan (3-6 july 2016). One stream of sessions will be dedicated to Location and managed by the EWGLA coordination board. We strongly encourage you to participate in this big event adn to submit a scientific contribution. It will be an opportunity to gather people involved in locational analysis and to improve visibility of our Euro Working Group and its participants. We are seeking session organizers who are willing to organize and chair sessions on hot topics related to Location. If you are interested, please contact me by email. Regards, Olivier Péton -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dr. Olivier Péton Enseignant - Chercheur Ecole des Mines de Nantes & IRCCyN (UMR CNRS 6597) 4 rue Alfred Kastler, 44300 Nantes Cedex, France Tel : (+33) 251.85.83.13 Email: olivier.peton(a)mines-nantes.fr ______________________________________________________________________

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Reminder : VEROLOG 2016 call for abstracts
by Fabien LEHUEDE 03 Jan '16

03 Jan '16

Dear colleagues, the abstract submission deadline to present at VeRoLog 2016 in Nantes is January 6. Happy new year from the organizing committee ! CALL FOR ABSTRACTS VEROLOG 2016 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 * Submissions to VeRoLog 2016 are in the form of a (max.) 250-words abstracts. Abstracts should be electronically submitted via the "Submissions" link in the left menu. 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. *Special issues * Special issues of international journals with full-paper versions of the work presented in Nantes will be edited after the conference. The call for papers will be launched in late June 2016. *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/verolog2016 http://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

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2016 INFORMS Telecommunications Conference
by Bernard Fortz 11 Dec '15

11 Dec '15

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