Dear colleagues,

This is the first announcement for the 23rd EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis meeting (EWGLA 2016) to be held in Málaga (Spain) on September 14-16, 2016. This year the EWGLA 2016 will be held in conjunction with 7th International Workshop on Locational Analysis and Related Problems, which is organized by the Spanish Location Network and Location Group (GELOCA). More information regarding the conference can be found in http://ewgla2016.lcc.uma.es

*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: May 15, 2016

Notification of acceptance:        June 12, 2016

Early registration:            June 30, 2016

Conference:      September 14-16, 2016

*Scientific Committee*

Sibel Alumur Alev - University of Waterloo (Canada)

Pasquale Avella - University of Sannio (Italy)

Giuseppe Bruno - University of Naples Federico II (Italy)

James Campbell - University of Missouri St. Louis (USA)

Emilio Carrizosa - University of Sevilla (Spain)

Ángel Corberán - University of Valencia (Spain)

Enrique Domínguez - University of Málaga (Spain) (chair)

H.A. Eiselt - University of New Brunswick (Canada)

Laureano F. Escudero - King Juan Carlos University (Spain)

Elena Fernandez - University Politecnica de Cataluña (Spain)

José Fernández - University of Murcia (Spain)

Sergio García-Quiles - University of Edinburgh (UK)

Ioannis Giannikos - University of Patras (Greece)

Horst Hamacher - University of Kaiserslautern (Germany)

Joerg Kalcsics - University of Edinburgh (UK)

Dmitry Krass - University of Toronto (Canada)

Martine Labbé - University Libre of Bruxelles (Belgium)

Mercedes Landete Ruiz - University Miguel Hernandez of Elche (Spain)

Vladimir Marianov - Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile)

Alfredo Marín - University of Murcia (Spain)

Juan A. Mesa - University of Sevilla (Spain)

Alan Murray - University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)

Stefan Nickel - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)

Blas Pelegrín - University of Murcia (Spain)

Olivier Péton - Ecole des Mines de Nantes (France)

Justo Puerto - University of Sevilla (Spain)

Antonio Rodriguez Chía - University of Cádiz (Spain)

Francisco Saldanha da Gama - University of Lisbon (Portugal)

Boglárka G. Tóth - Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary)

*Organizing Committee*

Enrique Domínguez - Chair

Sergio Salguero - Technical Office

Inés Aguilar - Technical Office

*EWGLA Coordination Board*

Sergio García Quiles - University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)

Jörg Kalcsics - University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)

Olivier Péton - Ecole des Mines de Nantes (France)

We are looking forward to meet you in Málaga !!!

Enrique Dominguez