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Election of new EWGLA Coordination Board
by Γιάννης Γιαννίκος 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

Dear Locators, As announced at the EWGLA session of the latest ISOLDE conference, the time has come to elect a new EWGLA Board. It will be a new one since the current board is not available for re-election. The details of the election process can be found on the EWGLA website (http://www.euro-online.org/ewgla/) and at the end of this email. Members are invited to submit proposals for new board candidates until 30th of September 2014. The voting itself will take place from 1st of November until 30th of November 2014. Details on that will be given after the submission deadline. The EWGLA board Sibel Alumur Alev Ioannis Giannikos Mercedes Landete Ruiz Guidelines for the election of a new EWGLA Coordination Board: - A EWGLA Board consists of three people from different countries; - Every second EWGLA meeting (which corresponds roughly to 3 years), a new EWGLA Board is elected which should correspond to a total renovation of the previous Board; - Only EWGLA members can be part of a EWGLA Board; - A proposal can be made by every EWGLA member and should reflect the will of three people to work together on the coordination of EWGLA; - A EWGLA member can be part of at most one proposal; - The proposals should be sent by e-mail to the current EWGLA Board (ewgla-board(a)euro-online.org) - After receiving all the proposals, the current EWGLA Board will inform all EWGLA members about the existing proposals and will conduct a voting process; - The deadline for the submission of proposals is determined by the current EWGLA Board but will be no less than 30 days before the voting. All the process should be completed and the corresponding results announced before the EWGLA meeting in which the new board takes office; - The elected board takes office in the EWGLA session of the EWGLA meeting.

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Workshop "Recent advances in multi-objective optimization" in Vienna, Sept 12 2014
by Ivana Ljubic 21 Jul '14

21 Jul '14

Dear colleagues, On Friday, September 12 2014, we will be hosting the workshop * Recent advances in multi-objective optimization * * moo.univie.ac.at * It will be a small, single-day, single-stream workshop focusing on recent advances in exact methods in multi-objective (mixed) integer optimization. Keynote talks will be given by Xavier Gandibleux and Matthias Ehrgott. We herewith invite you to participate in the workshop (apologies for cross-posting!). The workshop venue is the new building of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics and the Faculty of Mathematics of the University in Vienna. The preliminary program is as follows: * Thursday, September 11, 18:00: Welcome reception. * Friday, September 12, 09:00 - 18:00: Scientific program. * Friday, September 12, 19:30: Conference dinner. The participation fee is 50 EUR and includes the conference dinner, free coffee/tea and soft drinks between sessions, and a light lunch. PhD students are entitled to a reduced fee of 30 EUR. Important Dates: * August 15, 2014: Registration deadline. * September 12, 2014: Workshop. We are looking forward to meeting you in Vienna. Do not hesitate to contact us for additional information. With best regards, Ivana Ljubic and Sophie Parragh -- Dr. Ivana Ljubic Assistant Professor Department of Statistics and Operations Research Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics University of Vienna Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1090 Vienna, Austria Tel: +43-1-4277-38661 Fax: +43-1-4277-38699 http://homepage.univie.ac.at/ivana.ljubic/

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ISOLDE Website
by Sibel Alumur Alev 21 Jul '14

21 Jul '14

Dear Location Researchers, Our http://isoldeconference.org/ website has been updated with recent photos and information from the last ISOLDE meeting which was held in Naples and Capri, Italy, organized by Giuseppe Bruno. If you are interested in seeing more photos and receiving the latest information don't forget to "like" our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/ISOLDE-Conference/534366156575345 For those of you who weren't present at the last meeting, it was decided at the conference dinner of ISOLDE XIII that the next meeting (ISOLDE XIV) will take place in Toronto and some other exciting place in Canada in July 2017 to be organized by Dmitry Krass. Lastly, I encourage all the past participants to share memories and pictures to keep the ISOLDE website and Facebook pages alive. Best regards, Sibel Sibel Alumur Alev, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Industrial Engineering TOBB University of Economics and Technology Söğütözü cad. No:43, Söğütözü 06560, Ankara, Turkey phone: + 90 312 2924136 e-mail: <mailto:salumur@etu.edu.tr> salumur(a)etu.edu.tr url: <http://salumur.etu.edu.tr/> http://salumur.etu.edu.tr

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XVI Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry - First Call for Papers
by XVI EGC 16 Jun '14

16 Jun '14

[Apologies for multiple postings] FIRST 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: May 31 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. 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 Báñez, 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. Ferran Hurtado (Chair), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. 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, 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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SEPS Special Issue on public sector location
by Sibel Alumur Alev 08 Jun '14

08 Jun '14

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 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> 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 30 November 2014. 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 ( <mailto:Giuseppe.bruno@unina.it> giuseppe.bruno(a)unina.it, <mailto:a.genovese@sheffield.ac.uk> a.genovese(a)sheffield.ac.uk)

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SEPS Special Issue on public sector location
by Sibel Alumur Alev 08 Jun '14

08 Jun '14

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 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> 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 30 November 2014. 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 ( <mailto:Giuseppe.bruno@unina.it> giuseppe.bruno(a)unina.it, <mailto:a.genovese@sheffield.ac.uk> a.genovese(a)sheffield.ac.uk)

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Fwd: location modeling session at INFORMS
by alan murray 07 May '14

07 May '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: alan murray <atmurray(a)asu.edu> Date: Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:07 AM Subject: location modeling session at INFORMS To: location-analysis(a)list.informs.org Cc: Oded Berman <berman(a)rotman.utoronto.ca>, "Drezner, Zvi" < zdrezner(a)exchange.fullerton.edu>, Dmitry Krass <krass(a)rotman.utoronto.ca>, Kayse Maass <leekayse(a)umich.edu>, Mihiro Sasaki <mihiro(a)nanzan-u.ac.jp> Just a reminder that the INFORMS May 15 deadline for abstract submissions ( http://meetings2.informs.org/sanfrancisco2014/) is quickly approaching. Thus far, we have five SOLA sponsored sessions organized by: * Oded Berman (location models) * Zvi Drezner (location analysis) * Dmitry Krass * Kayse Maass * Mihiro Sasaki (urban OR) If you have a paper for inclusion in sponsored sessions, you can contact individual session organizers (all CC'd on this email) or you can contact me. I will put together one or more additional sessions if we have the submissions. Thanks, Alan -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alan Murray GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation Professor, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning Industrial Engineering Graduate Faculty, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287, USA Email: atmurray(a)asu.edu Web page: http://geoplan.asu.edu/people/alan-murray Editor, International Regional Science Review (http://irx.sagepub.com) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alan Murray GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation Professor, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning Industrial Engineering Graduate Faculty, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287, USA Email: atmurray(a)asu.edu Web page: http://geoplan.asu.edu/people/alan-murray Editor, International Regional Science Review (http://irx.sagepub.com) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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SOLA/Air Products Biennial Dissertation Award
by Maria Paola Scaparra 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

Colleagues: Please find inline below the Call for Submissions for the SOLA/Air Products Biennial Dissertation Award. Cash prizes will be awarded to the winner(s). Please excuse cross-listings and please distribute widely. Deadline for submissions is June 15. Regards, Paola SOLA - Air Products Biennial Dissertation Award Call for Submissions The Section on Location Analysis (SOLA) announces the biennial “SOLA-Air Products Dissertation Award” given to the best dissertation in the area of Location Analysis. Dissertation eligibility is as follows: a) written in English b) completed between July 1, 2011 and December 31, 2013 Please note the two and half year span above. c) primary focus on substantive, theoretical or methodological issues in location analysis and modeling Completed dissertations from all disciplines, including management science, industrial engineering, transportation science, geography and economics, will be considered. Applicants are required to submit a dissertation package that includes the following as a single PDF file: 1. a cover letter stating the name of their supervisor(s) 2. a letter from their supervisor supporting their submission 3. a two-page summary of their dissertation research 4. a copy of the dissertation Complete packages should be submitted via e-mail no later than June 15, 2014 to the Chair, SOLA - Air Products Dissertation Award at the following address: Dr. Trevor S. Hale Department of Management, Marketing, and Business Administration University of Houston - Downtown Email: halet(a)uhd.edu Courtesy of Air Products & Chemicals, cash prizes will be awarded to the winner (and, if the committee so decides, runners-up). Competition results and awards will be announced at the INFORMS 2014 annual conference. It is our intent to also have the award winner(s) give talks based on their dissertations during the INFORMS 2014 annual conference. Questions regarding this competition should be directed to Dr. Hale. Trevor S. Hale, University of Houston – Downtown, Chair Paola Scaparra, University of Kent Ismail Capar, Texas A&M University Maria Paola Scaparra Director MSc Management Science and Business Analytics Kent Business School - University of Kent Phone: +44 (0)1227 824556 E-mail: M.P.Scaparra(a)kent.ac.uk Website: http://www.kent.ac.uk/kbs/profiles/staff/scaparra_maria.html

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REMINDER: Call for Chapters for 2015 volume on Location Intelligence & Big Data
by Burcin Bozkaya 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

*** Apologies for multiple postings *** Dear Members of the EWGLA community, If the attached call-for-chapters falls within your area of interest, you are still welcome to submit a 3-page chapter proposal for the title Geo-Intelligence and Visualization through Big Data Trends by Monday, March 31, 2014. The notification of acceptance will be sent by April 30, 2014. Best Regards, Burcin Bozkaya, Sabanci University Vivek K. Singh, MIT Media Lab Editors ________________________________ Burcin Bozkaya, Ph.D. Associate Dean Assoc. Prof. of Operations Management Sabanci University Sabanci School of Management Orhanli, Tuzla 34956 Istanbul Turkey Tel: +90 216 483-9687 Fax: +90 216 483-9699 GSM: +90 533 280-0711 www.sabanciuniv.edu

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INFORMS - sessions on location analysis
by alan murray 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

I am the SOLA Cluster chair for the INFORMS 2014 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California (http://meetings2.informs.org/sanfrancisco2014/) November 9-12, 2014. 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 GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation Professor, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning Industrial Engineering Graduate Faculty, School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287, USA Email: atmurray(a)asu.edu Web page: http://geoplan.asu.edu/people/alan-murray Editor, International Regional Science Review (http://irx.sagepub.com) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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