this is the first announcement for the XXIV EURO Working Group on Locationa=
l Analysis meeting (EWGLA 2018) to be held in Edinburgh (United Kingdom) on=
May 23-25, 2018. You can already find some information regarding the confe=
rence at www.maths.ed.ac.uk/ewgla. More information will be added in due ti=
me, as, for example, the precise schedule and the social activities. We ant=
icipate that there will be an optional visit to The Scotch Malt Whisky Soci=
ety for a whisky tasting and dinner at their premises in Leith (limited pla=
ces, more information to come).
Aims and Scope
The meeting intends to gather the operational research community from diffe=
rent parts of the world to share experiences in the field of locational ana=
lysis. We invite participation from all areas related to location theory in=
cluding, 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 exchan=
ge 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 Committee
Sibel Alumur Alev, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Sergio Garcia Quiles, University of Edinburgh, UK (Chair).
Boglarka G.-Toth, Budapest University of Technology and Economics; Hungary.
Ioannis Giannikos, University of Patras, Greece.
Joerg Kalcsics, University of Edinburgh, UK (Chair).
Mercedes Landete Ruiz, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Spain.
Alfredo Marin Perez, Universidad de Murcia, Spain.
Belen Martin Barragan, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Olivier Peton, Ecole de Mines de Nantes, France.
Antonio Rodriguez Chia, Universidad de Cadiz, Spain.
Francisco Saldanha da Gama, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
Anita Schoebel, Universitaet Goettingen, Germany.
Organizing Committee
Tom Byrne, University of Edinburgh.
Xavier Cabezas, University of Edinburgh.
Maxence Delorme, University of Edinburgh.
Sergio Garcia Quiles, University of Edinburgh (Chair).
Joerg Kalcsics, University of Edinburgh (Chair).
Belen Martin Barragan, University of Edinburgh (Chair).
Minerva Martin del Campo, University of Edinburgh.
Lukas Schaefer, University of Edinburgh.
Saranthorn Phusingha, University of Edinburgh.
Mengyuan Xiang, University of Edinburgh.
We look forward to see you in Edinburgh,
Belen, Joerg and Sergio.
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