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VEROLOG 2016 first call for abstracts
by Fabien LEHUEDE 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

FIRST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS VeRoLog2016 The fifth meeting of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization - VeRoLog *Nantes, France, June 6-8 * http://verolog2016.sciencesconf.org/ The fifth meeting of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization will take place at the Mines Nantes Graduate School of Engineering, in Nantes 6-8 June 2016. The VeRoLog conference is an annual meeting bringing together the large community of researchers and practitioners interested in vehicle routing optimization and its relationship with logistics. The conference is open to high quality methodological contributions, relevant real-world applications, and case studies from industry and the service sector. *Abstract submission * To participate, an abstract of 1/3 page (max. 250 words) must be submitted electronically via the link "Submissions". Accepted abstracts with a registered presenter will be included in the book of abstracts. At most one presentation per registered participant will be accepted. All selected abstracts will be presented within parallel sessions during the conference. A list of relevant topics for the conference is given below. Selected high quality papers will be included in special issues of international journals edited after the conference. *Keynote speakers * Michael Hewitt (Loyola University Chicago) Recent advances in service network design Stefan Ropke (Technical University of Denmark) 10 years of Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search (ALNS) *Organizing committee * Christelle Guéret (University of Angers, LARIS) Fabien Lehuédé (Mines Nantes, IRCCyN) Jorge E. Mendoza (Polytech Tours, LI) Olivier Péton (Mines Nantes, IRCCyN) Marc Sevaux (University of South Brittany, LabSTICC) *Important dates * Jan 06, 2016: submission deadline March 01, 2016: acceptance notification April 01, 2016: camera ready submission deadline April 15, 2016: early bird registration closes May 18, 2016: registration closes *Registration * Early student: 250 euros Late Student: 350 euros Early regular: 350 euros Late regular: 450 euros The fee includes lunch and coffee breaks, the social program and conference dinner. *Follow us on Facebook and Twitter: * http://www.facebook.com/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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EUROPT 2015 Call for papers
by Sergio García Quiles 04 Sep '15

04 Sep '15

Dear colleagues, Here you have a wonderful opportunity to participate in an exciting conference in Edinburgh just before EURO in Glasgow starts. Best, Sergio. ******************************************************************************************************************************** Call for Papers 13th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization July 8-10, 2015: Edinburgh http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/hall/EUROPT15/ EUROPT2015 is the annual event of the EUROPT continuous optimization working group of EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies). This is the 13th such workshop and is held in collaboration with the EURO 2015 conference to be held in Glasgow on July 12-15 2015. Talks should be related to continuous optimization theory, algorithms, software or applications. It is expected that there will be a particular focus on large-scale optimization and linear algebra techniques in optimization. Plenary speakers confirmed: Sven Leyffer (Argonne National Laboratory) Lieven Vandenberghe (University of California, Los Angeles) Serge Gratton (CERFACS-IRIT, Toulouse) Abstracts (max one page *.pdf) should be submitted to EUROPT15(a)maths.ed.ac.uk by March 27 2015 Registration will open in due course, with the fees having been set as £150 (Standard) and £75 (PhD student) before May 15 2015. Afterwards the respective fees will be £200 and £100. Well priced accommodation has been booked for the nights before, during and after the conference, and details of how to reserve a room will be published in due course. We hope you will want to take this opportunity to visit Edinburgh and contribute to advances in continuous optimization. Julian Hall and Jacek Gondzio Chairs of the Organising and Programme Committees for EUROPT2015

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Call for Abstracts LAND TRANSLOG III. Santa Cruz, Chile. March 13 17, 2016
by Vladimir Marianov Kluge 20 Aug '15

20 Aug '15

Dear friends, The organizing committee of Land-Translog III would very much appreciate if this CFA could be sent to EWGLA members. Please, let me know. Best Regards, Vlad Vladimir Marianov Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Call for Abstracts LAND - TRANSLOG III Joint Workshop on Location and Network Design - Transportation and Logistic Santa Cruz, Chile. March 13 - 17, 2016 www.land-translog.cl<http://www.land-translog.cl/> The Complex Engineering Systems Institute (ISCI) has the pleasure to announce the Workshop LAND - TRANSLOG III, a special joint workshop, which is a continuation of a series of previous successful events that were held in 2009 and 2011 in Chile, and invites you to submit an abstract. The goal of the first LAND workshop, held in March 2009, was to gather together researchers in the fields of Location and Network Design. In parallel, the TRANSLOG Workshop, organized in December 2009, focused on Transportation and Logistics. However, it included topics that overlapped with those in the LAND Workshop, and attracted people that would feel comfortable attending both workshops. In December 2011 we took one more step in promoting interaction and exchange of ideas among people coming from the two fields, and organized the joint event LAND-TRANSLOG II, which was very successful in exploring common interests and learning how researchers from other fields address the same or similar problems. In 2013, our group also organized the last TRISTAN Conference in the North of Chile. After that effort, and with the intention of keeping continuity in this interaction of very interesting and fruitful research topics, we decided to organize a new version of the LAND - TRANSLOG series, to be held in the Hotel Santa Cruz Plaza, in the beautiful town of Santa Cruz-Chile, in March 13 - 17 next year. Presentations are encouraged focusing on theory, modeling or applications of Location and Network Design, including but not limited to Health, Energy, Telecommunications, Retail, Natural Resources, Environment, etc.; presentations dealing with methodology, including exact methods, heuristics and simulation are also welcome. From the transport and logistics side, the workshop will include topics spanning classic problems in transportation and logistics, planning and control strategies, fleet management, routing, timetabling and vehicle scheduling, crew scheduling, real-time optimization of operational schemes, among other areas of interest. Confirmed Speakers - Richard Church, University of California-Santa Barbara - Leandro Coelho, Université Laval, Quebec - Michel Gendreau, École Polythecnique de Montréal - Abilio Lucena, Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Vladimir Marianov, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile - Stefan Nickel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - George Nemhauser, Georgia Institute of Technology - Mikael Ronqvist, Université Laval, Quebec - Vedat Verter, McGill University, Montréal Important Dates & General Information - Abstract submission: October 20th, 2015 - Maximum abstract length: 500 words - Acceptance date: November 15th, 2015 - Workshop: March 13-17, 2015 - Early Registration: January 10th, 2015 - Venue: Hotel Santa Cruz Plaza, Santa Cruz, Chile - Abstract submission and more information: www.land-translog.cl<http://www.land-translog.cl/> ________________________________ (Please feel free to re-distribute this call. We apologize for any cross posting that might occur and let us know if you no longer want to received this information)

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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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