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EWGLA 2015 Meeting Information
by Boglárka G.-Tóth 20 Feb '15

20 Feb '15

Dear College, we are happy to announce that 55 talks are accepted for the EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis Meeting <http://www.math.bme.hu/ewgla2015/> being held in Budapest, Hungary, May 20-22, 2015. We are working on the final program, although a program overview is already available on the homepage. The plenary speakers are Leo Liberti <http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~liberti/> who will talk about Euclidean Distance Geometry, and Santo Fortunato <http://becs.aalto.fi/en/personnel/staff/fortunato_santo.html> with a talk on Graph Clustering. The social program will contain a boat trip on the Danube with some wine and cheese and the gala dinner with music, dance, wine tasting, etc. We would also remind you that early registration is until 20th March (in some emails incorrectly 8th March appeared). On the web page of the meeting you can find useful information for traveling and accommodation as well, under the Travel Information and Host City page. See you all in Budapest! Organizing Committee EWGLA 2015

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EURO 2015 in Glasgow
by Sibel Alumur Alev 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

Dear EWGLA members, The next EURO conference will take place in Glasgow from 12-15 July 2015. You may find the 3rd call for papers below. EWGLA Coordination Board is responsible from organizing the Location stream. Please let us know if you'd like to submit a paper to this stream. You may also contact us if you would like to organize a full session of 3-4 papers. (ewgla-board(a)euro-online.org<mailto:ewgla-board@euro-online.org>) We look forward to seeing you in the EWGLA meeting in Budapest and the EURO Conference in Glasgow. Best regards, Sibel Alumur Alev, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Management Sciences University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1 CANADA tel: +1-519-888-4567, ext. 33365 e-mail: sibel.alumur(a)uwaterloo.ca<mailto:sibel.alumur@uwaterloo.ca> url: http://www.mansci.uwaterloo.ca/~salumura/ 3rd CfP --- EURO 2015 in Glasgow The next European Conference on Operational Research, EURO2015: Operational Research In Practice, will take place at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow from 12-15 July 2015. It is the place to present your work and find out about cutting edge ideas emerging from the Operational Research community. The deadline for abstract submissions is March 16. Researchers, academics, practitioners, and students interested in any branch of Operational Research, mathematical modelling or economic analysis are invited to submit abstracts or organise sessions. If you would like to organise a session, please contact the Programme Committee. More information is on the website www.euro2015.org<http://www.euro2015.org>, including details of the main topical areas, the Programme and Organising Committee members, and details of how to submit your abstract. Our plenary speaker sessions are superb, confirmed to date: Risk and Reliability in Stochastic Optimization - R.Tyrrell Rockafellar, University of Washington Public Policy & Governance, Sustainable Cities - Sir Alan Wilson, Professor of Urban Regional Systems, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London Trends in Transportation and Logistics - M Grazia Speranza, Professor in Operations Research, University of Brescia Our further speaker programme includes: OR Education in the Age of Analytics - Ariela Sofer, Systems Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR), George Mason University, Virginia Optimizing and Transforming the Healthcare System - Eva K. Lee, Centre for Operations Research in Medicine and HealthCare, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Operations Research Models in Evacuation Planning - Horst Hamacher, Optimization Working Group, Department of Mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany OR Models and Algorithms for Bioinformatics - Jacek Blazewicz, Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Advances in Criterion Space Search Methods for Multiobjective Mixed Integer Programming - Martin Savelsbergh, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Behavioural Operational Research - Raimo P. Hamalainen, Systems Analysis Laboratory, Aalto University, Finland Is Optimal Still Good Enough? - Modern Supply Chain Planning - Stefan Nickel, Institute for Operations Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany Automatic Algorithm Configuration: Advances and Perspectives - Thomas Stuetzle, IRIDIA, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium OR at the heart of Government - how the Government OR Service influences decision making - Tony O'Connor, Chair of the Government Operational Research Service (GORS), UK Be a part of EURO2015 which takes place in an inspiring and lively city, has a great social programme and is the place for OR in 2015. We look forward to seeing you in Glasgow. Kind regards Professor Tim Bedford, Professor Val Belton and Professor David Pisinger, Co-chairs of EURO2015

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SOLA - INFORMS: location analysis sessions
by Alan Murray 04 Feb '15

04 Feb '15

I am the Section on Location Analysis (SOLA) Cluster chair for the INFORMS 2015 Annual Meeting in Philly (http://meetings.informs.org/philadelphia2015) November 1-4, 2015. If you have suggestions, ideas or contributions for themed SOLA sessions, feel free to pass this information along to me. In addition, if you are interested in organizing a SOLA sponsored session, let me know. I will need your name and the tentative theme title of your session. It is shaping up to be a great meeting. We look forward to your contributions to the SOLA sessions. Alan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alan Murray Center for Spatial Analytics and GeoComputation Professor, College of Computing and Informatics Professor, School of Public Health Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA Phone: 1-215-895-0544 Email: amurray(a)drexel.edu Web page: http://cci.drexel.edu/faculty/amurray/ Editor, International Regional Science Review (http://irx.sagepub.com) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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EWGLA XXII CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended submission deadline: 15 January 2015
by Boglárka G.-Tóth 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

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 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: 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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EJCO special issue
by Bahar Yetis 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

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 research venues. This special issue is 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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XXII EWGLA conference - Financial support of recent PhD graduates
by Ioannis Giannikos 08 Jan '15

08 Jan '15

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' 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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SEPS social issue on Location Analysis for Public Sector Decision Making
by Vedat Verter, Prof. 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

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 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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congratulations to SOLA award winners!
by Larry Snyder 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

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 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 -- 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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Last Call for Papers: EURO Mini Conference on, Improving Healthcare: new challenges, new approaches - new deadline
by Joana Matos Dias 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

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. __ _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 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. 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. __ _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 __ _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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2nd Call for papers, XVI Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry
by XVI EGC 12 Nov '14

12 Nov '14

[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 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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