Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite you to submit an article to the special issue of Computers & Operations Research dedicated to Challenges and Perspectives in Location Science.

The detailed call for papers is attached. The submission deadline is 29 February 2024.

Please forward this email to any interested colleagues.

We’d like to take this opportunity to wish you happy holidays and a joyful new year!

With our best regards, Teresa Melo, Saarland University of Applied Sciences (Germany) • teresa.melo@htwsaar.demailto:teresa.melo@htwsaar.de Stefan Nickel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany • stefan.nickel@kit.edumailto:stefan.nickel@kit.edu Anita Schöbel, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) and Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM), Germany •anita.schoebel@rptu.demailto:anita.schoebel@rptu.de

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