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ITOR Special issue on “Improving Healthcare: new challenges, new approaches” new deadline
by Joana Matos Dias 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

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 Papers should be original, unpublished, and not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.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)

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Special Issue on Recent Advances in Location Analysis
by Sibel Alumur Alev 12 Jun '15

12 Jun '15

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

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some questions for EWGLA 2015
by Boglárka G.-Tóth 28 May '15

28 May '15

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

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New EWGLA Coordination Board
by Ioannis Giannikos 28 May '15

28 May '15

Dear Locators, We would like to inform those of you who did not attend the latest meeting in Budapest that during the EWGLA session of the meeting the new EWGLA Coordination Board officially took over. The new Board consists of the following colleagues: - Sergio García Quiles, School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh, UK (sergio.garcia-quiles(a)ed.ac.uk) - Jörg Kalcsics, Institute of Operations Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), GERMANY (kalcsics(a)kit.edu) - Olivier Péton, École des Mines de Nantes, FRANCE, (olivier.peton(a)emn.fr) We would also like to take this opportunity and thank you all for your assistance and support during our term as Coordination Board. It has been a privilege for us to have worked for such a wonderful Working Group, we enjoyed it and had a great time! We wish the new Board every success and will be happy to offer any assistance required. Sibel Alumur Alev Ioannis Giannikos Mercedes Landete Ruiz (The former EWGLA Coordination Board)

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EWGLA 2015 Program
by Boglárka G.-Tóth 08 May '15

08 May '15

Dear Colleague, we would like to inform you that the program of the EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis Meeting <http://www.math.bme.hu/ewgla2015/> being held in Budapest, Hungary, May 20-22, 2015 is ready and can be seen on the webpage of the conference: http://www.math.bme.hu/ewgla2015/program.html. See you soon in Budapest! Organizing Committee EWGLA 2015

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Facility location research session at DSI in Seattle
by Hale, Trevor 22 Apr '15

22 Apr '15

[Apologies for cross postings] EWGLA Colleagues: Welcome home from EWGLA XX in Ankara, Turkey! For the first time in recent memory (and quite possibly ever), the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) is inviting at least one research session (3-4 talks) on Facility Location (any sub-topic considered) chaired by yours truly. The 2015 DSI Annual Conference is in (beautiful) downtown Seattle this November 21st through 24th and that (just announced today) the Seattle Seahawks play host to the Arizona Cardinals that Sunday November 22nd a very walkable 1.3 miles due south of the conference hotel right past the world famous Seattle Art Museum. The conference web site is here: http://dsi-annualmeeting.org/ The submission website is here (abstracts limited to 50 words, full papers are accepted, and deadlines are approaching in May): http://dsi-annualmeeting.org/submission/ The conference hotel web site is here: https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/events/start.action?id=1502026108&key=2BCDD… Thanks in advance! Cheers, Trevor 2014-2015 UHD Faculty Senate Secretary/Past-President Trevor Schuyler Hale, PhD Management, Marketing, and Business Administration College of Business, University of Houston - Downtown One Main Street, Houston, Texas 77002 USA halet(a)uhd.edu<mailto:halet@uhd.edu> www.uhd.edu/~halet<http://www.uhd.edu/~halet> Summers: Dr. Trevor S. Hale Office of Naval Research Senior Faculty Fellow NAVFAC EXWC, Naval Base Ventura County 1100 23rd Street, Port Hueneme, California 90043 USA trevor.hale.ctr(a)navy.mil<mailto:trevor.hale.ctr@navy.mil>

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Journal of Global Optimization: Special issue on Global Optimization applied to Healthcare Problems
by Joana Matos Dias 10 Apr '15

10 Apr '15

Call for Papers *Special issue on Global Optimization applied to Healthcare Problems* Guest Editors: Joana Dias, INESCC/FEUC, Portugal Humberto Rocha, INESCC, Portugal Ana Viana, ISEP/INESC TEC, Portugal 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, especially those requiring the development of mathematical models and global optimization techniques. In this special issue we welcome contributions that consider methodological, theoretical or computational aspects of global optimization applied to healthcare problems.Only high quality contributions in terms of novelty and significance within the scope of Journal of Global Optimization will be considered. 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 Journal of Global Optimization. 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 https://www.editorialmanager.com/jogo, not forgetting to choose as article type « SI : Global Optimization in Healthcare ». The deadline for submissions is 31 October, 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)

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Doctoral contract in France
by Vincent Hovelaque 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

Dear all We propose a doctoral contract (for 3 years) at the University of Rennes 1 (Brittany, France). The topic is : "Location, sustainability, performance of food supply chain". The thesis - will use models from OR, geographical economics and logistics. - will be developed in french language (but publications in english). I join all informations for this thesis (in french) and some slides of a previous conference (EWGLA 2011, Nantes). http://shos.univ-rennes1.fr/zBasDePage/uneActualite/?contentId=26220 Feel free to contact me for more information. Best regards -- *Vincent Hovelaque * Professeur des Universités Management industriel et logistique === IGR-IAE de Rennes <http://www.igr.univ-rennes1.fr>, Université de Rennes 1 CREM UMR CNRS 6211 <http://crem.univ-rennes1.fr> 11 rue Jean Macé CS 70803, F-35708 Rennes cedex 7 +33 2 23 23 45 13

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EWGLA 2015 Early registration deadline is approaching, 20th of March
by Boglárka G.-Tóth 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

Dear College, we would like to remind you that 20th March is approaching, the deadline of the early registration for the EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis Meeting <http://www.math.bme.hu/ewgla2015/> being held in Budapest, Hungary, May 20-22, 2015. The final program will be published on the homepage around 25th of March. Participation is welcome without a talk as well, just register for the meeting and come. See you all in Budapest! Organizing Committee EWGLA 2015

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[EURO 2015] Supply Chain Network Design: call for abstracts
by Olivier Péton 16 Mar '15

16 Mar '15

Dear locators, You are cordially invited to submit an abstract to the session on “Supply Chain Network Design” to be held at the EURO 2015 <http://www.euro2015.org> in Glasgow, July 12-15, 2015. This special session is part of the stream “Location". Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Facility location models within supply chain management: integration of location decisions with other issues such as e.g. procurement, production, transportation, inventory, etc. - Exact or heuristic solution methods for (re)designing a supply chain network - Case studies from industry involving facility location and supply chain network design The deadline for abstract submission is *March 16, 2015* (no more than 1500 characters, no formulas or mathematical notation). You may access the conference website directly at http://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro27/ and select the session code “80c7201f”. Alternatively, feel free to send me your abstract: I will post it in the conference system and will send you a confirmation. Looking forward to receiving interesting contributions! Kind regards, Olivier Péton -- _______________________________________________________________________ Olivier Péton Enseignant - Chercheur Ecole des Mines de Nantes & IRCCyN (UMR CNRS 6597) 4 rue Alfred Kastler, BP 20722 44307 Nantes Cedex 3, France Tel : (+33) 2.51.85.83.13 Email: olivier.peton(a)mines-nantes.fr ______________________________________________________________________

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