EWGLA XXI CALL FOR PAPERS - Submission deadline: 5 January 2015

Dear colleagues,

This is the first announcement for the *21st EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis Meeting*, *EWGLA XXI**,* to be held in *Budapest, Hungary* on *May 20-22, 2015*. The conference will take place at the Corvinus University.

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: 5 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 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