this is the second announcement for the XXIV EURO Working Group on Location=
al Analysis meeting (EWGLA 2018) to be held in Edinburgh (United Kingdom) o=
n May 23-25, 2018. You can find further information regarding the conferenc=
e at www.maths.ed.ac.uk/ewgla<http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/ewgla>. More inform=
ation will be added in due time, as, for example, the precise schedule and =
the social activities. There will be an optional visit to The Scotch Malt W=
hisky Society for a whisky tasting and dinner at their premises in Leith (l=
imited places, 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 19, 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, Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem, 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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Joerg Kalcsics
Lecturer in Operational Research
School of Mathematics
University of Edinburgh
James Clerk Maxwell Building
Peter Guthrie Tait Road
Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK
Room: 6226
Phone: +44 (0)131 650 5953
Email: joerg.kalcsics@ed.ac.uk<mailto:joerg.kalcsics@ed.ac.uk>
Web: http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/people/show?person=3D450
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