Dear colleagues,
This is the announcement for the *22nd EURO Working Group on Locational
Analysis Meeting*, *EWGLA XXI**I,* to be held in *Budapest, Hungary* on *May
20-22, 2015*. The conference will take place at the Corvinus University.
Extended abstract submission deadline: *15 January 2015*
More information regarding the conference can be found in the conference
web site: www.math.bme.hu/ewgla2015
*Aims and Scope*
The meeting intends to gather the operations research community from
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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: 15 January 2015
· Notification of acceptance: 5 February 2015
· Early registration: 20 March 2015
· Conference: 20-22 May 2015
*Committees*
* Scientific Committee:*
Sibel Alumur Alev - University of Waterloo, Canada
Botond Bertók - Pannon University, Hungary
Emilio Carrizosa Priego - University of Sevilla, Spain
Laureano F. Escudero - King Juan Carlos University, Spain
Elena Fernandez Areizaga - University Politecnica de Cataluna, Spain
José Fernández - University of Murcia, Spain
Boglárka G.-Tóth - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
(chair)
Ioannis Giannikos - University of Patras, Greece
Horst Hamacher - University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Dmitry Krass - University of Toronto, Canada
Mercedes Landete Ruiz - University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, Spain
Alfredo Marin Perez - University of Murcia, Spain
Stefan Nickel - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Olivier Péton - Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
Francisco Saldanha da Gama - University of Lisbon, Portugal
Anita Schöbel - University of Goettingen, Germany
*Local Committee:*
Marianna E.-Nagy - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Boglárka G.-Tóth - Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
Hungary (chair)
Kristóf Kovács - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Miklós Pintér - Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
József Temesi - Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
*EWGLA Coordination Board:*
Sibel Alumur Alev - University of Waterloo, Canada
Ioannis Giannikos - University of Patras, Greece
Mercedes Landete Ruiz - University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, Spain
We are looking forward to meet you in Budapest!
Boglárka G.-Tóth
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Dear EWGLA members,
Call for papers of a new special issue pf EJCO is attached.
FYI ....
Best regards
Bahar Y. Kara
Call for Papers EURO Journal on Computational Optimization Special Issue
on Computational Optimization Methods in Logistics
Guest Editors: Bahar Y. Kara, Oya E. Karasan and Hande Yaman (bkara,
karasan, hyaman(a)bilkent.edu.tr)
Submission Deadline: September 4, 2015
In the past two decades with the outburst of globalization, logistics
has become one of the leading …
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intended to be an outlet for recent developments in solving challenging
logistics problems, ranging from the classical problems such as facility
location, vehicle routing, network design to problems arising in recent
and emerging application areas such as green logistics, smart cities,
relief logistics, health care and energy.
To submit your paper to this special issue, 1. Log on the editorial
manager using the <Author Login> via the website
https://www.editorialmanager.com/ejco/
2. Select <Submit New Manuscript> in the main menu.
3. In the drop down list associated with <Choose Article Type>, select
("SI: Logistics").
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The EWGLA Coordination Board is pleased to announce that EWGLA is willing to cover the registration fee for the forthcoming XXII EWGLA Conference in 2015 for EWGLA members who completed their PhD thesis on Location Analysis since June 2014. In order to apply, eligible members should submit appropriate documentation (e.g. certificate or letter from supervisor) stating the title and the completion date of their thesis as well as the thesis itself for uploading in the EWGLA Theses' …
[View More]Repository. Applications should be sent by e-mail to the EWGLA Board (ewgla-board(a)euro-online.org).
The EWGLA Coordination Board
Sibel Alumur Alev, University of Waterloo, Canada
Ioannis Giannikos, University of Patras, Greece
Mercedes Landete Ruiz, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Elche, Spain
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Final Call for Papers
Special Issue of Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
Location Analysis for Public Sector Decision-Making in Uncertain Times
Guest Editors: Giuseppe Bruno, University of Naples “Federico II”,Italy
Andrea Genovese, University of Sheffield, UK
******Extended Submission Deadline: January 31, 2015******
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences will publish a special issue on recent development in Location Analysis for Public Sector Decision-Making. The goal is to compile state-of-the …
[View More]art research, spanning modeling, theory, empirical studies, application and case studies in this research area. We seek operations research oriented contributions that are rigorously executed, clearly and succinctly written, and innovative relative to what is currently known. In light of the scope of SEPS, all papers must clearly demonstrate the relevance of their contributions with respect to the public sector.
A facility location problem is aimed at finding the best position for a set of facilities within a given region in order to optimize a specific objective function. In the last decades, there have been many applications concerning the location of public-sector facilities (i.e. schools or post offices, emergency services, fire stations, hospitals, ambulances). These models represent a viable decision support tool for institutions that are planning to expand their capacity in a given region and/or market.
This very well established research strand, however, has to take into account the changing and uncertain nature of our times. Indeed, in recent years, due to the global recession and the general interest to reduce costs and improve efficiency, public sector bodies have been more interested in the rationalization of the current position of active facilities (either closing down some of them or re-organizing the overall service supply system). In this context, decisions may depend on various factors such as the nature of the service and the characteristics of the demand.
Considering this context, the special issue will be welcoming papers related to applications and theory of Location Analysis, with a special emphasis on contributions addressing contemporary challenges.
All manuscripts should be submitted electronically via the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) http://ees.elsevier.com/seps. You must select Location Analysis as the Article Type to make sure that your paper will be considered for the special issue. The submission deadline is January 31, 2015. The plan is to publish the special issue in early 2016. Researchers from all relevant disciplines are invited to consider this special issue as an outlet to publish their quality work on this topic of increasing significance. Inquiries on the special issue can be directed to the guest editors (giuseppe.bruno(a)unina.it<mailto:Giuseppe.bruno@unina.it>, a.genovese(a)sheffield.ac.uk<mailto:a.genovese@sheffield.ac.uk>).
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Dear SOLA and EWGLA Members,
It is my pleasure to (re-)announce the winners of the awards presented
at the SOLA business meeting at INFORMS San Francisco last week:
*Gemma Berenguer* won first place in the the SOLA-Air Products
Dissertation Award for her dissertation "A New Approach in Supply Chain
Design: Studies in Reverse Logistics and Nonprofit Settings," completed
under the supervision of Max Shen at UC-Berkeley. Honorable Mentions
went to the authors of two additional outstanding …
[View More]dissertations: *Gina
Galindo*, for her dissertation "Prepositioning Supplies in Preparation
for a Foreseen Hurricane," supervised by Rajan Batta at SUNY-Buffalo,
and *Hans-Peter Ziegler*, for his dissertation "Algorithms for Linear
Stochastic Programs and their Application in Supply Chain Network Design
Problems" at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, supervised by Stefan
Nickel (Karlsruhe) and Francisco Saldanha da Gama (U Lisbon).
We presented the Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis (LALA) award
to two professors who have made enormous contributions to location
analysis over their careers, *Mark Daskin* and *Gilbert Laporte*. Mark
is chair of the IOE department at Michigan and is author of a number of
seminal location theory papers as well as the 1995 textbook /Network and
Discrete Location/ (revised in 2013) and has served on a number of
editorial boards and as INFORMS President. Gilbert is Professor at HEC
Montréal and is author/co-author/editor of over 450 journal articles and
17 books, focusing on location, transportation, and their intersection.
As is our tradition, the LALA awards were announced at ISOLDE XIII in
Naples/Capri and were officially awarded at the SOLA business meeting.
Please join me in congratulating all of the winners!
Best,
Larry
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Larry Snyder
Associate Professor
Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering <http://www.lehigh.edu/ise/>
Integrated Networks for Electricity (INE) Research Cluster
<http://www.lehigh.edu/%7Eingrid/>
Power from Oceans, Rivers, and Tides (PORT) Lab
<http://www.lehigh.edu/portlab/>
Lehigh University
larry.snyder(a)lehigh.edu
coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~larry/ <http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/%7Elarry>
610 758 6696 W
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EURO Mini Conference on
Improving Healthcare: new challenges, new approaches
Coimbra, Portugal
30 March – 1 April 2015
www.minieuro2015.com <http://www.minieuro2015.com/>
We would like to welcome you to Coimbra, a beautiful city in Portugal,
and its University recently recognized as World Heritage by UNESCO.
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_Scope and objectives_
Recent advances in medicine allow us to live longer and healthier lives.
These advances have been made possible through the joint contribution …
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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.
The challenges that Healthcare is facing have not only to do with the
ability of providing better services to all (treatments, preventive
medicine, better diagnosis tools), with an increased focus on improved
personalized treatment options, but also with the need to tackle an
increased pressure felt by Healthcare systems: increased number of
patients, some of them requiring expensive treatments, with a consequent
increase in the workload for health institutions that most of the times
have to deal with important budget restrictions.
The Conference will provide a forum in which researchers coming from
different scientific disciplines can discuss and share their experience
regarding methodological approaches to tackle different Healthcare
challenges. Contributions from operational research, industrial
engineering, medicine, medical physics, management, computational
biology, bioinformatics, health economics among others are welcomed.
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_Streams_
If you are interested in organizing a stream please let us know
(info(a)minieuro2015.com).
Confirmed streams:
·Health Informatics
·Radiotherapy Optimization
·Biomedical Engineering
·Health Logistics and Scheduling
_Confirmed Plenary Speakers_
Sally Brailsford, University of Southampton
David Craft, Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital
Ben Heijmen, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute and Erasmus University Rotterdam
Alexandre Quintanilha, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar
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_Submissions:_
Authors are invited to submit an abstract with not more than 350 words
or a full paper (4 to 10 pages) to be published in the conference
proceedings (Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)).
After the conference, authors of accepted abstracts and papers can
submit extended versions of their work to special issues:
·International Transactions in Operational Research
·Journal of Global Optimization (subject to a sufficient number of
submissions)
_Important Dates:_
Submission of Abstracts/ Papers: 17 October 2014 *23 November 2014
(Final Date!)*
Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2014
Final abstract/paper due: 09 February 2015
Early Registration Deadline: 02 March 2015
_Registration_
Full Early registration
225€
Full Late registration
300€
Student Early registration
100€
Student Late registration
120€
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[Apologies for multiple postings]
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS -- XVI EGC
XVI Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry
(Encuentros de Geometría Computacional, EGC)
July 1-3, 2015 Barcelona, Spain
http://www-ma2.upc.es/egc15
The XVI Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry will be held on July 1-3,
2015, at the Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics, Universitat
Politècnica de
Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
The main focus of this international conference is on current topics in
Discrete and …
[View More]Computational Geometry, including both theoretical and applied
results. EGC started in 1990, making this edition, 25 years later, a special
occasion. The intended audience for this conference includes graduate and
undergraduate students, researchers in the area or from neighboring
disciplines, and members of industry whose work involves geometric
algorithms.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
* geometric algorithms and data structures;
* discrete and combinatorial geometry;
* theoretical foundations of computational geometry;
* questions of interest in the implementation of geometric algorithms and
geometric software development;
* applications of computational geometry, and closely related areas, such as
computer graphics, virtual reality, robotics, computer vision,
simulation and
visualization, solid modelling, computer aided design and manufacturing,
pattern recognition, graph drawing and circuit layout, image processing,
geographic information systems, multimedia
and animation, wireless communications, computer algebra, computational
topology, statistical analysis, operations research, computational biology,
etc.
The language of the conference is English, yet occasional submissions/
presentations in Spanish may be exceptionally considered.
IMPORTANT DATES
All deadlines are 23:59 CEST and fixed. There will be no extensions.
Paper submission deadline: April 16, 2015
Notification of paper acceptance: May 14
Grant application deadline: May 21
Final versions due: June 2
Early registration deadline: June 4
Conference: July 1-3, 2015
INVITED SPEAKERS
Jin Akiyama, Tokyo University of Science.
Francisco Santos, Universidad de Cantabria.
Bettina Speckmann, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
Jorge Urrutia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
SUBMISSIONS
We invite authors to submit extended abstracts that should not exceed 4
pages
of original research. In order to guarantee that submissions are in
scope and
not below basic standards, there will be a limited review process. An
appendix
can be added as a help for the reviewers and is required when necessary to
verify omitted proofs of critical claims. Submission details will be
available
on the conference website.
We remark that XVI ECG will have neither formally reviewed proceedings nor
printed abstracts. The abstracts, without ISBN, will be made available
on the
conference website (appendices excluded), and must be regarded as a
collection
of preprints rather than a formally reviewed selection of papers.
Papers that have just been submitted to journals or to formally reviewed
conferences are eligible for being presented at XVI ECG, assuming that it is
allowed by those venues and they have not appeared by the time of the
conference. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their
papers at
the conference. Failure to do so will result in removal of the contribution
everywhere in the website.
SPECIAL ISSUE
Authors of selected contributions will be invited to submit a full
version of
their work to a special issue of the International Journal of Computational
Geometry and Applications.
ACCOMODATION
Rooms have been reserved at three different university residences, at a
special rate. You will have the chance to book a room in one of them
when you
fill in the registration form.
Important: the number of rooms reserved is limited! The sooner you register,
the higher the chance to find a place at the residence of your choice. Once
all the rooms we have reserved are booked, attendants will have to search
accommodation by themselves. Registration and accommodation reservation will
open on March 23, 2015.
COMMITTEES
Program committee
Manuel Abellanas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Oswin Aichholzer, Graz University of Technology.
Prosenjit Bose, Carleton University.
Sergio Cabello, University of Ljubljana.
Jean Cardinal, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Erik Demaine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
José M. Díaz Bañez, Universidad de Sevilla.
Ruy Fabila-Monroy, Cinvestav.
Silvia Fernández-Merchant, California State University, Northridge.
Jesús García López, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Alfredo García Olaverri, Universidad de Zaragoza.
Gregorio Hernández, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Rolf Klein, University of Bonn.
Marc van Kreveld, Utrecht University.
Stefan Langerman, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Alberto Márquez, Universidad de Sevilla.
Joseph S.B. Mitchell, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Belén Palop, Universidad de Valladolid.
Pedro Ramos (Chair), Universidad de Alcalá.
Tomás Recio, Universidad de Cantabria.
Eduardo Rivera-Campo, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -- Iztapalapa.
Toshinori Sakai, Tokai University, Tokyo
Gelasio Salazar, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí.
Francisco Santos, Universidad de Cantabria.
Antoni Sellarès, Universitat de Girona.
Rodrigo I. Silveira, Universidade de Aveiro & Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya.
Pavel Valtr, Charles University.
David Wood, Monash University.
Organizing commitee
Mercè Claverol, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
Carmen Hernando, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
Clemens Huemer, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
Mercè Mora, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
Vera Sacristán (Chair), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
Carlos Seara, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
Rodrigo I. Silveira, Universidade de Aveiro & Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya
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Dear Locators,
The period for the election of the new EWGLA Coordination Board expired on October 31st 2014. We did not receive any votes against the proposal submitted by Jörg Kalcsics (Germany), Sergio García Quiles (Spain) and Olivier Péton (France). In fact, we received messages by several EWGLA members in favor of the proposal. Therefore, the candidates are elected. The new Coordination Board will take office in the forthcoming EWGLA meeting in Budapest (May 2015).
Congratulations to …
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Sibel Alumur Alev
Ioannis Giannikos
Mercedes Landete Ruiz
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Dear Locators,
Please find attached two calls for applications for the following EURO awards:
The EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award (EDDA)
http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/210/doctoral-dissertation-award-edda
The deadline for submitting applications is 28 February 2015.
The jury chair and contact is
Professor Hartmut Stadtler
The EURO Excellence in Practice Award (EEPA)
http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/209/excellence-in-practice-award-eepa
The deadline for submitting material …
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The jury chair and contact is
Professor Luca Gambardella
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Please also note that EURO accepts nominations for possible award recipients for the following awards:
The EURO Distinguished Service Medal Award (EDSM)
http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/255/distinguished-service-medal-award-…
The deadline for nominations is 31 January, 2015.
The jury chair and contact is
Prof. Jan Weglarz
Institute of Computing Science
Poznan University of Technology
Plac Marii Sklodowskiej-Curie 5
Poznan
Poland
Jan.weglarz(a)cs.put.poznan.pl<mailto:Jan.weglarz@cs.put.poznan.pl>
The EURO Gold Medal (EGM)
http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/212/gold-medal-egm
The deadline for nominations is 31 January, 2015.
The jury chair and contact is
Ger Koole
Department of Mathematics
VU University Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1081a
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
ger.koole(a)vu.nl<mailto:ger.koole@vu.nl>
For completeness EURO also has an Award for the Best EJOR Paper (EABEP).
http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/1536/guidelines.
The EWGLA Coordination Board
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EWGLA XXI CALL FOR PAPERS - Submission deadline: 5 January 2015
Dear colleagues,
This is the first announcement for the *21st EURO Working Group on
Locational Analysis Meeting*, *EWGLA XXI**,* to be held in *Budapest,
Hungary* on *May 20-22, 2015*. The conference will take place at the
Corvinus University.
More information regarding the conference can be found in the conference
web site: www.math.bme.hu/ewgla2015
*Aims and Scope*
The meeting intends to gather the operations research …
[View More]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: 5 January 2015
· Notification of acceptance: 5 February 2015
· Early registration: 20 March 2015
· Conference: 20-22 May 2015
*Committees*
*Scientific Committee:*
Sibel Alumur Alev - University of Waterloo, Canada
Emilio Carrizosa Priego - University of Sevilla, Spain
Laureano F. Escudero - King Juan Carlos University, Spain
Elena Fernandez Areizaga - University Politecnica de Cataluna, Spain
José Fernández - University of Murcia, Spain
Boglárka G.-Tóth - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
(chair)
Ioannis Giannikos - University of Patras, Greece
Horst Hamacher - University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Dmitry Krass - University of Toronto, Canada
Mercedes Landete Ruiz - University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, Spain
Alfredo Marin Perez - University of Murcia, Spain
Stefan Nickel - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Olivier Péton - Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
Francisco Saldanha da Gama - University of Lisbon, Portugal
Anita Schöbel - University of Goettingen, Germany
*Local Committee:*
Marianna E.-Nagy - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Boglárka G.-Tóth - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
(chair)
Kristóf Kovács - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Miklós Pintér - Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
József Temesi - Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
*EWGLA Coordination Board:*
Sibel Alumur Alev - University of Waterloo, Canada
Ioannis Giannikos - University of Patras, Greece
Mercedes Landete Ruiz - University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, Spain
We are looking forward to meet you in Budapest!
Boglárka G.-Tóth
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