Dear Colleagues,

This is the first announcement for the *XXIV EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis* meeting (EWGLA 2018) to be held in Edinburgh (United Kingdom) on May 23-25, 2018. You can already find some information regarding the conference at http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/ewgla/. More information will be added in due time, as, for example, the precise schedule and the social activities. We anticipate that there will be an optional visit to The Scotch Malt Whisky Society for a whisky tasting and dinner at their premises in Leith (limited places, more information to come).

*Aims and Scope* The meeting intends to gather the operational 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, but not limited to: * Network location. * Continuous location. * Discrete location. * Obnoxious location. * Competitive location. * Hub location. * Location and 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: January 15, 2018. Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2018. Early registration: March 23, 2018. Conference: May 23-25, 2018.

*Scientific Commitee* Sibel Alumur Alev, University of Waterloo, Canada. Sergio García Quiles, University of Edinburgh, UK (Chair). Boglárka G.-Tóth, Budapest University of Technology and Economics; Hungary. Ioannis Giannikos, University of Patras, Greece. Jörg Kalcsics, University of Edinburgh, UK (Chair). Mercedes Landete Ruiz, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Spain. Alfredo Marín Pérez, Universidad de Murcia, Spain. Belén Martín Barragán, University of Edinburgh, UK. Olivier Péton, École de Mines de Nantes, France. Antonio Rodríguez Chía, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain. Francisco Saldanha da Gama, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Anita Schöbel, Universität Göttingen, Germany.

*Organizing Commitee* Tom Byrne, University of Edinburgh. Xavier Cabezas, University of Edinburgh. Maxence Delorme, University of Edinburgh. Sergio García Quiles, University of Edinburgh (Chair). Jörg Kalcsics, University of Edinburgh (Chair). Belén Martín Barragán, University of Edinburgh (Chair). Minerva Martín del Campo, University of Edinburgh. Lukas Schäfer, University of Edinburgh. Saranthorn Phusingha, University of Edinburgh. Mengyuan Xiang, University of Edinburgh.

We look forward to see you in Edinburgh, Belén, Jörg and Sergio.

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