EWGLA XX THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS - 10 days to submission deadline
Dear colleagues,
This is the third announcement for the 20th EURO Working Group on Locational
Analysis Meeting, EWGLA XX, to be held in Ankara, Turkey on April 17-19,
2013. The conference will take place in the conference center of the TOBB
University of Economics and Technology.
Our keynote speakers are now announced:
· Prof. Aharon Ben-Tal - Robust Optimization
· Prof. Marielle Christiansen - Optimization of Maritime
Transportation
More information regarding the conference can be found in the conference web
site: <http://www.ewgla2013.org> www.ewgla2013.org
We apologize for cross-posting.
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.
A special issue will be devoted to recent developments on location analysis
in the journal Computers & Operations Research published by Elsevier.
Keynote Speakers
· Prof. Aharon Ben-Tal - Robust Optimization
· Prof. Marielle Christiansen - Optimization of Maritime
Transportation
Important Dates
· Abstract submission deadline: 18 January 2013, Friday
· Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2013, Friday
· Early registration: 8 March 2013, Friday
· Conference: 17-19 April 2013
Committees
Scientific Committee:
Sibel Alumur Alev - TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
(Co-Chair)
Giuseppe Bruno - University of Naples Federico II, Italy
James Campbell - University of Missouri St. Louis, United States
Emilio Carrizosa - University of Sevilla, Spain
H.A. Eiselt - University of New Brunswick, Canada
Erhan Erkut - Özyeğin University, Turkey
Elena Fernandez - University Politecnica de Cataluña, Spain
Ioannis Giannikos - University of Patras, Greece
Horst Hamacher - University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Mercedes Landete Ruiz - University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, Spain
Vladimir Marianov - Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
Alfredo Marin - University of Murcia, Spain
Stefan Nickel - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Justo Puerto - University of Sevilla, Spain
Francisco Saldanha da Gama - University of Lisbon, Portugal
Barbaros Tansel - Bilkent University, Turkey
Bahar Yetiş Kara - Bilkent University, Turkey (Co-Chair)
Local Committee:
Sibel Alumur Alev - TOBB University of Economics and Technology (Co-Chair)
Burçin Bozkaya - Sabancı University
Nilgün Fescioğlu Ünver - TOBB University of Economics and Technology
Oya Ekin Karaşan - Bilkent University
Gültekin Kuyzu - TOBB University of Economics and Technology
Haldün Süral - Middle East Technical University
Hünkar Toyoğlu - Bilkent University
Hande Yaman - Bilkent University
Bahar Yetiş Kara - Bilkent University (Co-Chair)
EWGLA Coordination Board:
Sibel Alumur Alev - TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
Ioannis Giannikos - University of Patras, Greece
Mercedes Landete Ruiz - University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, Spain
You can contact the conference secretariat regarding all the academic and
organizational issues by e-mailing to <mailto:info@ewgla2013.org>
info(a)ewgla2013.org.
Dear Colleagues,
Unfortunately, I have very sad news. Prof. Barbaros Tansel has passed away
this morning due to an embolism.
We present our sincere condolences to his family and friends.
Regards,
Sibel Alumur Alev
Dear colleagues,
I would appreciate if you could distribute this
announcement through your mail list.
Best,
Emilio Carrizosa
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SPECIAL ISSUE
ON VARIABLE NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH
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JOURNAL OF
GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION
www.springer.com/10898
2011 Impact Factor 1.196
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Variable
Neighborhood Search (VNS) is a metaheuristic which has shown to
be
very successful for solving hard combinatorial and global optimization
problems.
During the EURO Mini-Conference on VNS took place in
Herceg Novi,
Montenegro, October 4th-7th 2012, researchers all around
the world
presented their most recent findings on VNS, either from a
methodological
viewpoint or as applications to real world problems.
Authors of papers presented at the EURO Mini-Conference on VNS are
especially encouraged to submit their work to this special issue in
the Journal of Global Optimization. However, the issue is open to all
researchers who can contribute to a better
knowledge of VNS. Potential
topics include, but are not limited to:
Theory and Methodology:
*
Theoretical or empirical analysis of VNS
* New variants of
deterministic and stochastic VNS
* Continuous global VNS
*
Mat-heuristics and VNS
* Formulation space VNS
* Multi-objective VNS
* Parallel VNS
* VNS hybrids
Applications:
* Mixed integer
programming
* Graphs, communication networks
* Clustering, data
mining, location
* Inventory, routing, supply chains
* Packing and
covering
* Discovery sciences
* Other real world problems
Before
submission authors should carefully read over the journals Author
Guidelines. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of
their
complete manuscript through the journal's editorial manager
http://jogo.edmgr.com/ and specifying that their paper is for the
special
issue "SI: VNS 2012". Manuscript deadline: 31st December 2012.
GUEST EDITORS
Emilio Carrizosa, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain,
ecarrizosa(a)us.es
Pierre Hansen, GERAD and École des Hautes Etudes
Commerciales, Canada,
pierre.hansen(a)gerad.ca
José A. Moreno,
Universidad de la Laguna, Spain, jamoreno(a)ull.es
Dear Location Researchers,
During the last ISOLDE meeting in Japan, Gilbert Laporte said it's a pity
that there is so little information available regarding the past ISOLDE
meetings. We discussed that it'd be nice if we can have a website for
ISOLDE. I volunteered to design such a website. The website address is:
http://isoldeconference.org. As we discussed with Gilbert, I have designed
the page in a way that people will be able to post some memories from the
past ISOLDE meetings.
In order to support the website, I also established a Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/ISOLDE-Conference/534366156575345. All of the
past ISOLDE meetings are listed on the events page. It is easier to post
pictures and comments for each of the meetings through these event pages.
You should be able to access these pages without being a Facebook member.
For those of you who are a member of Facebook, you can "like" this page to
be informed about recent posts and pictures. Also, you can "join" the past
meetings that you have attended and keep track of how many ISOLDE meetings
that you have been to.
I have put all the information that I have to the website in addition to
some pictures that I could get. I'm especially in search of the group photos
taken in all of the past meetings. It would be wonderful if the past meeting
organizers can send group photos or any additional information to share
through the website.
Lastly, I encourage all the past participants to share memories and pictures
to keep the ISOLDE website and Facebook pages alive.
Best regards,
Sibel Alumur Alev
Call for papers: Euro XXVI conference Rome Italy 1-4 July 2013
Hybridisation of Heuristics/Exact Methods for Combinatorial and Global Optimisation
Call for invited Talks and organizing chairs
Hi Guys,
I am organizing a stream on 'Hybridisation of heuristic/exact for combinatorial and global optimisation'.
If you are interested in organizing a session or just to submit a paper please email me. Each session needs to include 4 talks (in case you are oversubscribe or under subscribe I will try to balance it between the sessions if need be).
The deadline is end of the month but we will see if extensions are possible.
- Talks are encouraged to include both components namely heuristic (meta-heuristics) and exact though individual ones will not be excluding.
- Areas of interest cover any combinatorial/global optimization problem that is either practically useful or academically interesting.
Best wishes
Said
Professor Said Salhi (FORS, FIMA, MILT)
Director: Centre for Logistics & Heuristic Optimisation (CLHO),
Head of Group: Management Science & Operations,
Kent Business School
University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7PE, UK
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EWGLA XX SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS - Submission deadline: 18 January 2013
Dear colleagues,
This is the second announcement for the 20th EURO Working Group on
Locational Analysis Meeting, EWGLA XX, to be held in Ankara, Turkey on April
17-19, 2013. The conference will take place in the conference center of the
TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
More information regarding the conference can be found in the conference web
site: <http://www.ewgla2013.org> www.ewgla2013.org
We apologize for cross-posting.
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.
A special issue will be devoted to recent developments on location analysis
in the journal Computers & Operations Research published by Elsevier.
Important Dates
· Abstract submission deadline: 18 January 2013, Friday
· Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2013, Friday
· Early registration: 8 March 2013, Friday
· Conference: 17-19 April 2013
Committees
Scientific Committee:
Sibel Alumur Alev - TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
(Co-Chair)
Giuseppe Bruno - University of Naples Federico II, Italy
James Campbell - University of Missouri St. Louis, United States
Emilio Carrizosa - University of Sevilla, Spain
H.A. Eiselt - University of New Brunswick, Canada
Erhan Erkut - Özyeğin University, Turkey
Elena Fernandez - University Politecnica de Cataluña, Spain
Ioannis Giannikos - University of Patras, Greece
Horst Hamacher - University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Mercedes Landete Ruiz - University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, Spain
Vladimir Marianov - Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
Alfredo Marin - University of Murcia, Spain
Stefan Nickel - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Justo Puerto - University of Sevilla, Spain
Francisco Saldanha da Gama - University of Lisbon, Portugal
Barbaros Tansel - Bilkent University, Turkey
Bahar Yetiş Kara - Bilkent University, Turkey (Co-Chair)
Local Committee:
Sibel Alumur Alev - TOBB University of Economics and Technology (Co-Chair)
Burçin Bozkaya - Sabancı University
Nilgün Fescioğlu Ünver - TOBB University of Economics and Technology
Oya Ekin Karaşan - Bilkent University
Gültekin Kuyzu - TOBB University of Economics and Technology
Haldün Süral - Middle East Technical University
Hünkar Toyoğlu - Bilkent University
Hande Yaman - Bilkent University
Bahar Yetiş Kara - Bilkent University (Co-Chair)
EWGLA Coordination Board:
Sibel Alumur Alev - TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
Ioannis Giannikos - University of Patras, Greece
Mercedes Landete Ruiz - University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, Spain
You can contact the conference secretariat regarding all the academic and
organizational issues by e-mailing to <mailto:info@ewgla2013.org>
info(a)ewgla2013.org.
The LGI2A, Laboratory of Computer Science and Control Systems of University
of Artois (Bethune, North of France) is seeking to fill a postdoctoral
position in:
*“Service Network Design in Supply Chain Systems”*
for a 12 month contract to be filled as soon as possible.
Successful candidate will perform research on models of capacitated
multi-commodity flow, routing and location and develop mathematical models
and efficient solution methods for real-life industrial applications (exact
methods and heuristic approaches).
The salary will be around 2,000 euro per month (only roughly).
The research will be carried out in the group of “Systems Optimization” of
LGI2A led by Prof. Gilles Goncalves.
LGI2A (www.lgi2a.univ-artois.fr/) offers a strong scientific support, a
friendly environment and collaborative international environment. Several
international/EU industrial/research projects at LGI2A permit students and
researchers to be in the middle of research collaboration and help them to
extend their network to their counterparts at other universities, academic
institutes and industries to develop their future career. Several meetings
and plenary seminars will offer opportunity to students and researchers to
communicate and benefit from the others latest research results.
Bethune is a beautiful city located at the North of France (40 minutes
North of Lille) in a very calm and quiet North-Western European region. It
will take 1 hour going to Brussels, 2 hour from London and 70 minutes to
Paris by TGV trains.
Candidates must hold a PhD degree (or about to defend within a month) or
equivalent in computer science, mathematics or a related area and should
have a solid knowledge of mixed integer programming, excellent programming
skills, experience in decomposition methods (primal and dual),
metaheuristics, and algorithms. Other skills such as knowledge in
probability theory and stochastic programming are beneficial.
Good communication skills and solid English writing skills are mandatory.
Knowledge of French is not required, but successful candidates will be
encouraged to learn some basics.
Often there has been free French course offered to researchers and their
family members by the University of Lille du Nord.
Interested applicants should send their application containing
- cover and motivation letter
- curriculum vitae
- copies of PhD degree or attestation of defense from university
- summary of PhD thesis (English, about 1 pages)
- names and email addresses of at least two referees, including the thesis
adviser
- candidate may choose to also provide complete thesis and any other
scientific publications
Applicants are invited to submit the application by respecting the
deadline of 10 December 2012 to:
Prof. Gilles Goncalves
*Gilles.Goncalves(a)univ-artois.fr*
and
Dr. Shahin Gelareh
*Shahin.Gelareh(a)univ-artois.fr*
if you have any questions regarding the positions or your application,
please do not hesitate to contact the aforementioned emails (emails should
be destined to both).
Please put “*[SGGG2012postdoc]*” in your email subjects.
Dear EWGLA members,
We recently launched the EWGLA Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/ewgla. You can "like" this page through Facebook to
hear about the announcements and recent developments regarding EWGLA.
All the past and upcoming EWGLA meetings are listed on the events page:
https://www.facebook.com/ewgla/events. Here you can "join" the past meetings
that you have attended. Once you join, you can write posts and share photos.
We encourage all the members to post memories and pictures to these past
events.
For those of you who are not a member of Facebook, you can send your photos
to ewgla-board(a)euro-online.org so that we can share them on our pages. We
are especially in search of the group photos taken in all the past EWGLA
meetings. It would be wonderful if the past meeting organizers can send such
photos to us.
In addition, we also established the EWGLA LinkedIn group on:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/EWGLA-4729361?home=
<http://www.linkedin.com/groups/EWGLA-4729361?home=&gid=4729361&trk=anet_ug_
hm> &gid=4729361&trk=anet_ug_hm. You can freely join this group to be aware
of the recent job postings, group discussions, etc.
Lastly, we encourage all the members to make the EWGLA Facebook and LinkedIn
pages alive.
Sibel Alumur Alev, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
Ioannis Giannikos, University of Patras, Greece
Mercedes Landete Ruiz, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain
Dear Colleagues
Thank you for disseminating this announcement.
Best regards
Shahin Gelareh
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The LGI2A, Laboratory of Computer Science and Control Systems of University
of Artois (Bethune, North of France) is seeking to fill a PhD position in
Operations Research.
The PhD position will be co-funded by the University of Artois, French
Ministry of Science and/or the Nord-Pas de Calais region (France) under the
title of:
“*Service Network Design in Supply Chain Systems”*
to be supervised by Prof. Gilles Goncalves and Assoc. Prof. Shahin Gelareh
at LGI2A.
The PhD is expected to start on October 2013.
Successful candidate will perform research on models of routing and
location and develop mathematical models and efficient solution methods for
real-life industrial applications.
The position is for 36 months and a net salary of “approximately” 1450 euro
per month. As the position is co-funded by the university there might be
some minor teaching involved.
The research will be carried out in the group of “Systems Optimization” of
LGI2A led by Prof. Gilles Goncalves.
LGI2A (www.lgi2a.univ-artois.fr/) offers a strong scientific support, a
friendly environment and collaborative international environment. Several
international/EU industrial/research projects at LGI2A permit student to be
in the middle of research collaboration and help them to extend their
networks to their counterparts at other universities and other academic
institutes and industries and invest in developing future career. Several
meetings and plenary seminars will offer opportunity to students and
researchers to communicate and benefit from the other’s latest research
results.
Bethune is located at the North of France (40 minutes North of Lille) in a
very calm and quiet North-Western European city. It will take 1 hour to
Brussels, 2 hour from London and 70 minutes to Paris by TGV trains.
Candidates must hold a master's degree (or equivalent) in computer science,
mathematics or a related area and should have a very good knowledge of
mixed integer programming, decomposition methods, metaheuristics, and
algorithms. Other skills such as knowledge in probability theory as well as
programming skills are beneficial.
Good communication skills and solid English writing skills are mandatory.
Knowledge of French is not required, but successful candidates will be
encouraged to learn some basics.
Interested applicants should send their application containing
- cover and motivation letter
- curriculum vitae
- copies of diplomas
- summary of master/diploma thesis (English, about 1 pages)
- names and email addresses of at least two referees, including the thesis
adviser
- candidate may choose to also provide complete thesis and any other
scientific publications
Applicants are invited to submit the application by respecting the deadline
of 31 February 2013 to:
Prof. Gilles Goncalves
*Gilles.Goncalves(a)univ-artois.fr*
and
Dr. Shahin Gelareh
*Shahin.Gelareh(a)univ-artois.fr*
if you have any questions regarding the positions or your application,
please do not hesitate to contact the aforementioned emails.
Please put “*[SGGG2013]*” in your application email subjects.
From: Said Salhi [mailto:S.Salhi@kent.ac.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 2:14 PM
To: ewgla-bounces(a)euro-online.org
Cc: Nenad Mladenovic; Jack Brimberg; Said Hanafi
(Said.Hanafi(a)univ-valenciennes.fr)
Subject: call for the COR special issue (VNS)
Hi Guys
This is a gentle reminder that the deadline for the special issue of COR for
VNS is extended to December the 31st, 2012.
The details of the call are attached.
Best wishes
Said
Professor Said Salhi (FORS, FIMA, MILT)
Director: Centre for Logistics & Heuristic Optimisation (CLHO),
Head of Group: Management Science & Operations,
Kent Business School
University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7PE, UK
p: (0)1227 824672 f: (0)1227 761187
www.kent.ac.uk/kbs/profiles/staff/salhi_said.htmlwww.kent.ac.uk/kbs/clho
