Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that our special issue on Recent Advances in Location Analysis has been published as part of Volume 62 of Computers & Operations Research.

We received a total of 64 submissions addressing various problems in the context of location analysis. At the end of the reviewing process, 19 papers were accepted to be published. We have excellent contributions in this special issue. You may find the online publication of the issue in the following link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03050548/62

We would like thank all of those who contributed to this special issue. In particular, all the authors for submitting and revising their work and all the reviewers for their valuable time and constructive criticism which certainly improved the quality of all the publications.

Special Issue Editors Sibel A. Alumur and Bahar Y. Kara