A message from J.A.Mesa, organisor of the tenth International Symposium On Locational DEcisions
Please find the Pre-Announcement of the Conference ISOLDE X to be held in Seville, Spain next 2-8 June 2005 on the Conferences page..
Juan A. Mesa (Conference Chairman)
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2004.
A message from S.Nickel, organisor of the fifteenth meeting of EWGLA
Dear Locators,
We have updated our
EWGLAXV Website
You can find now the conference poster as well as a preliminary list of speakers
and the titles of their talks.
Currently we have 46 speakers, which means an interesting but tight schedule since
parallel sessions will be avoided.
Please also note that the early registration period end June 30th.
See you all in Saarbruecken in September
Stefan Nickel
A message from the EURO office
Dear colleague,
EURO is happy to announce
its new campaign "Branding Operational Research".
Any registered registered user of the EURO web site
has free access to the new forum "Tell us your stories".
Please find some information about this action on
the EURO webpage
International Symposium - Call for papers
September 13-15, 2004
University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan
Sponsored by the 21st Century COE Program on Information Science and Technology Strategic Core,
University of Tokyo
webpage
Date: Thursday, December 18, 2003.
A message from S.Nickel
The call for papers for the XVth meeting of our working group,
to be held in Saarbruecken, Germany on 5-8 September 2004, has been posted,
and is found on the Conferences page.
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2003.
Dear colleague:
Now that the Regional Science Conference in Philadelphia and the
location modeling sessions have faded to a pleasant memory we
would like to remind you that a special issue of Computers &
Operations Research is planned.
The editors will be pleased to consider all contributions that were
presented in the “location” sessions at the conference as well as
contributions from colleagues who were not able to participate in the
conference. Papers in closely related areas such as spatial
competition, nature reserve design, routing of pipelines, & similar
topics are also eligible.
In order to be able to participate in the special issue we need to
receive a copy of your completed paper no later than February 29,
2004. Please email your paper to any of the three undersigned in
either Word or .pdf format.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Best regards,
H.A. Eiselt, haeiselt(AT)unb.ca
C.S. ReVelle, revelle(AT)jhu.edu
S. Ratick, sratick(AT)clarku.edu
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2003.
Dear Friend of Andy Vazsonyi,
My father, Andrew Vazsonyi, died this week at 1:30 am on Thursday morning.
He suffered a massive stroke, became immediately unconscious, was taken to
the hospital, and passed away 2 hours later. His death is a tremendous
loss to me, and family and friends who have who have enjoyed his company.
As my father would no doubt have pointed out, there is more than one side
to this story, Despite our loss, he left this life in a way the he would
have chosen, dying rapidly, with little pain or disability.
Bobbi Chaney - Andy's Daughter
Described by my colleague, Jon Liebman in the following terms. "If you haven't read it, you should...... Most enjoyable; particularly his story of how Harold Kuhn made a presentation in Budapest of Vazsonyi's location algorithm (published as Weiszfeld) thirty years later!!"
Which Door has the Cadillac, Andrew Vazsonyi, Writers Club Press, NY, paperback, 2002. ISBN 0-595-26062-4. $17.95 at Barnes and Noble.
Chuck ReVelle
Date: Friday, October 10, 2003.
Feature issue "Advances in Location Analysis"
Guest Editors:This feature issue focuses on the significant advances that have been observed in the field of Location Analysis over the last few years. These advances refer to theoretical models as well as to solution techniques addressing more realistic problem situations. Location Analysis is an interdisciplinary field involving, among others, mathematical programming, meta-heuristics, multi-criteria analysis and computational geometry. Researchers who wish to mark their presence in the current state-of-the-art of Location Analysis are invited to submit four copies of their papers to one of the guest editors. Papers concerning theoretical developments or modeling issues, as well as papers presenting successful applications will be welcome.
Deadline for Submissions: December 31, 2003
Addresses for Submissions:
Dr. Maria Dimopoulou
Department of Informatics
Athens University of Economics and Business
76 Patission Str,
Athens 10434
Greece
e-mail: dimop@aueb.gr
Dr. Ioannis Giannikos
Department of Business Administration
University of Patras
Patras 26500
Greece
e-mail: I.Giannikos@upatras.gr
Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2003.
Location Modelers:
As you may know, I took over as Editor of Geographical Analysis last July. Further, Geographical Analysis has a long history of publishing some of the very best location modeling research. This is certainly something we would like to continue in the future.
As the premier journal in quantitative theoretical geography, I invite you to submit current or future work for publication consideration. I can promise you a painless submission process (we accept electronic submissions in Word or PDF format) and relatively quick review times (we have been averaging 3 months or so recently).
Feel free to contact me if you have questions.
Best regards,
Alan Murray
Department of Geography,
The Ohio State University
1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210-1361, USA
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2003.
JOURNAL OF FOOD ENGINEERING
Special Issue on “Operational Research and Food Logistics”
Guest Editors:
Dr. Christos T. Kiranoudis Department of Process Analysis and Plant Design, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, GR-15780, Athens, Greece
Dr. Christos D. Tarantilis Department of Process Analysis and Plant Design, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, GR-15780, Athens, Greece
Application of operational research models/techniques has been extensively used in solving the logistics problems in food industry. In today’s logistics environment, food industries are calling for immediate action on implementing systems, developing algorithms, intelligent methods and methodologies that will lead to faster transactions, reduced operating costs and improved performance, work flows and customer service and will strive for more control, visibility, and flexibility in their logistics operations such as production planning and scheduling, warehousing, distribution and transportation.
This special issue offers the opportunity to present theoretical contributions, to report innovative ideas and practical results in real- life applications, and to shape future directions for research. Empirical field observations, survey research leading to original and significant conclusions, or application papers in the above areas are also welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
• Fleet Management • Inventory Management • Service Network Design • Location Problems • Transportation Planning • Warehousing Systems Control and Planning • e-Supply Chain Management • Reverse Logistics • Information Management in Logistics Systems
Deadlines and Important Dates:
• Short abstract of tentative paper: Before May 31, 2003 • Submission of full manuscript: September 30, 2003 • Notification of preliminary decision with referees’ comments: December 31, 2003
Abstract and papers should be sent to tarantil@chemeng.ntua.gr
The abstract file, written in Word or pdf format, should contain: title, authors, affiliations (tel., fax, e-mail), three key words and at most five references. Authors should follow the Guide for Contributors for JoFE when preparing their manuscripts for submission.
Date: Thursday, February 6, 2003.
Single-Facility Location Problems with Barriers
by Kathrin Klamroth, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Springer Series in Operations Research,
Springer, New York, 2002, Hardcover, 216 pages.
ISBN 0-387-95498-8.
Growing transportation costs and tight delivery schedules make good locational decisions more and more crucial in the success or failure of industrial and public projects. The development of realistic location models is an essential phase in every locational decision process. Especially when dealing with geometric representations of continuous location model problems, the geographical reality must be incorporated.
This text develops the mathematical implications of barriers
to the geometric and analytic characteristics of continuous
location problems. Besides their relevance in the application
of location theoretic results, location problems with barriers
are also very interesting from a mathematical point of view.
The nonconvexity of distance measures in the presence of barriers
leads to nonconvex optimization problems. Theoretic as well as
algorithmic approaches are developed to overcome this difficulty.
Depending on the barrier shapes, the underlying distance measure,
and type of objective function, different concepts are conceived
to handle the nonconvexity of the problem.
Date: Thursday, November 7, 2002.
A message from I. Giannikos
The call for papers for the XIVth meeting of our working group,
to be held in Corfu, Greece on Sept 11-13 2003, has been posted,
and is found on the Conferences page.
Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2002.
A message from S. Nickel
Dear Locators,
as some of you may already know
I am organizing a session (at least) on
Practical Facility Location Models
I already got some feedback, but in order to know if there should be
one, two or more sessions on this quite essential topics I send
that information to the EWGLA-List.
If you plan to give a talk in this session please contact me (nickel@itwm.fhg.de) till end
of October.
Best regards
Stefan
Date: Thursday, February 28, 2002.
Dear EWGLA friends and collegues,
The time has come for you to run ...
With this letter we are inviting all participants of both EWGLA Xii (Barcelona, 2000) and EWGLA Xiii (Volos, 2001) to submit their papers for publication. Accepted papers will be included in the special issue of Studies in Location Analysis on EWGLA12 and 13.
Submissions should be sent directly to Yorgos Photis ( yphotis@uth.gr ) in Postscript, PDF, Microsoft Word or LaTex format. Please pay attention to the above since we will not be able to review any other formats. At later stages and for the final publication all electronic manuscripts will be requested in LaTeX and Microsoft Word format only.
This is a very late call so as we mentioned in the beginning of this e-mail, we have to speed things up a little. After all, from what we agreed in Volos, we should be ready since January 31st...
So here are the important dates:
Paper submission deadline : March 25, 2002
Referees' report : April 30, 2002
Accepted papers (edited) submission deadline : May 15, 2002
We have already received several papers, without even sending this call and we are looking forward for more. Reviewing Process has started for these and the referees are waiting for yours. If you have any additional questions we are always at your disposal.
Sincerely,
Yorgos N. Photis and Frank Plastria
Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2001.
Facility Location: Applications and Theory
Zvi Drezner, Horst Hamacher (Eds.)
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, January (2002)
ISBN 3-540-42172-6
For more info, the full table of contents and the preface, see
Z.Drezner's homepage
and/or
Springer's advertisement
Date: Fri, Nov 23 2001.
NINTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
LOCATIONAL DECISIONS
(ISOLDE IX)
Individuals working on any aspect of location theory or practice are
invited to present their results at the ninth International Symposium on
Locational Decisions. This conference is the major triennial meeting of
scientists in the field of locational planning & modeling.
Following an old tradition, the conference will take place in two
locations: the first three days we will be in Fredericton, the capital of New
Brunswick, Canada. From there, we transfer to St. Andrews, a beautiful
resort town on the Bay of Fundy.
H.A. Eiselt (chairman),
University of New Brunswick,
Fredericton, CANADA
December 31, 2001 -
Deadline for abstracts.
Abstracts should not exceed 200 words, & should include
the title of the paper, its author(s) (name, affiliation(s), & email address
for each author), as well as some appropriate keywords. The most likely
presenter should be listed as the first author. A Word document
containing this information should be sent as an email attachment to
Vedat Verter at verter@management.mcgill.ca.
Registration can be done by returning the attached
registration form (also available on our website) by fax to 506-453-3561 or
snail mail to:
H.A. Eiselt
FEES:
Payment should be made either by sending an international money order
to the above address, or mailing or faxing the registration fee including
the credit card information on the registration form.
Early registration (before February 28, 2002):
Can$375 or US$250.
Refunds of the full amount minus an administration fee of Can$50
(US$35) will be given for cancellations before May 15, 2002.
Cancellations after that date are not eligible for a refund.
Our website
contains further information.
Any further inquiries should be directed by email to H.A. Eiselt at
haeiselt@unb.ca or by fax to 506-453-3561.
Networks & Spatial Economics:
A Journal of Infrastructure Modeling and Computation
Editor-in-Chief: Terry L. Friesz
Advisory Editors: Ĺ. Anderson, G. Anandalingam, J. Casti, M. Florian, B. Johansson,
P. Nijkamp, R. Kuenne, J.-S. Pang
Editors: J. Orlin, T. Smith
Spatial Economics Area Editor: A. Reggiani
Networks & Spatial Economics (NETS), a new journal whose first volume of four issues will appear in 2001, invites authors to submit high quality manuscripts related to all aspects of infrastructure modeling and computation.
Interested authors are encouraged to consult the
Journal website
where additional details about manuscript preparation and submission may be found.
Authors who wish to discuss potential submissions and proposals for special issues may contact
Professor Terry L. Friesz
Telephones: 202 966 7577 or 703 993 1658 ISOLDE IX : Second Call for Papers
June 12 – June 18, 2002,
(Wednesday – Tuesday)
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Gilbert Laporte,
École des Hautes Études Commerciales,
Montreal, CANADA
Vedat Verter,
McGill University,
Montreal, CANADA
Antonio Antunes,
University of Coimbra,Coimbra, Portugal
Joao Coutinho,
University of Coimbra,
Coimbra, Portugal
John Current,
Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
IMPORTANT DATES:
February 28, 2002 -
Deadline for early registration.
May 15, 2002 -
Last day for refunds in case of a cancellation.
ABSTRACTS:
REGISTRATION:
ISOLDE IX
Faculty of Administration
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3
CANADA
Late registration (after February 28, 2002):
Can$425 or US$300.
Accompanying person: Can$200 or US$135.
INQUIRIES:
CALL for PAPERS - Networks & Spatial Economics
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, U.S.A.
Transportation Area Editor: M. Carey
Traffic Flow Theory Area Editor: M. Zhang
Location Area Editor: P. Lederer
Telecommunications Area Editor: R. Tobin
GIScience: Area Editor: J.-C. Thill
Energy Area Editor: S. Gabriel
Nonlinear Dynamics Area Editor: T. Puu
Simulation Area Editor: K. Nagel
Information & the Internet Area Editor: D. Bernstein
NETS was established in direct response to the increasing recognition that there are substantial similarities in the operation, control and analysis of various types of infrastructure systems. By bringing together, under a single Editorial Board, application areas heretofore generally treated as distinct, NETS aims to publish research that recognizes the interdependency of transport, telecommunications, information, power distribution and water resource infrastructures. At the same time NETS will also publish original analyses of specific aspects of individual infrastructures.
NETS will give special emphasis to dynamic phenomena and new results in nonlinear systems theory applied to networks and the spatial continuum.
Already in progress are several NETS special issues that document the current state of knowledge in spatial economic dynamics, traffic flow theory, dynamic traffic assignment, energy distribution and pricing, GIScience, micro-simulation, telecommunications networks, the Internet and other areas. These special issues are meant to serve as primers for scholars from other applications areas and to, thereby, facilitate the transfer of ideas and mathematical methods between traditionally distinct fields of inquiry.
Although proposals for additional special issues will be given serious consideration, NETS is now emphasizing contributed papers. You, your colleagues and your students are encouraged to submit manuscripts based on your research and scholarly activities.
The NETS Editorial Board is truly excellent. The Editors, Advisory Editors and Area Editors are all scholars of the first rank who have published in distinguished peer-reviewed journals and are known for their objectivity in editorial matters. In a few cases, young scholars of unusually high-promise have been appointed as Area Editors when nominated by at least three senior Board members.
Department of Systems Engineering & Operations Research
Science and Technology II Building, Room 111
George Mason University
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
U.S.A.
Email: tfriesz @gmu.edu
NEW OUTLET FOR APPLIED OR AND MODELING FOR PAPERS IN TRANSPORTATION AND
LOCATION
Pitu Mirchandani and I have been appointed as departmental editors for a new
area referred to as "Transportation and Location Modeling" for the journal
IIE Transactions in Scheduling and Logistics. We invite researchers to
submit papers to this high-quality journal, with wide subscription including
significant practitioner readership.
Below is a statement that appeared in the journal recently and papers in
these
areas are most welcome.
Rajan Batta
Please submit papers to:
Dr. Candace A. Yano
Editor, IIE Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
USA
Position Statement for Transportation and Location Modeling (DRAFT)
The areas of transportation and location modeling provide excellent
opportunities for innovative research. The journal welcomes papers in these
areas with a preference towards papers that explore new applications, new
models and theoretical results for these applications and models. Examples
of new innovative areas include, but are not limited to,
(1) intelligent transportation systems that give truckers instantaneous knowledge of travel
conditions and costs,
(2) distribution and logistics management of container cargo,
(3) categorization and development of models for strategic, tactical
and operational transportation/location decision-making are topics of
current interest.
Modeling the inherent uncertainty in transportation and
location applications is of interest, as are the solution of large-scale
problems in these areas.
Finally, the interplay between location and
transportation is of great interest. For example, integrated models, such
as those needed for the design and analysis of supply-chains, that
simultaneously consider location and transportation logistics and costs are
of current interest.
Rajan Batta and Pitu Mirchandani
(departmental editors: Transportation and
Location Modeling, IIE Transactions: Scheduling and Logistics Issues)
A message of Yorgos Photis EWGLA XIII organiser
Dear friends,
Just a reminder for those of you who have not yet submitted paper
details for the XIII EWGLA meeting in Volos. The deadline for early
registration is approaching very quickly now. Please send me a title,
abstract, author information, and contact details as soon as possible.
Please forward this announcement to colleagues that may be interested.
Information regarding the meeting may be found at the
new EWGLA13 site
And don't forget to check it regularly from now on.
I look forward to seeing you all in Volos!
Yorgos
A message of Hartmut Stadtler
Announcement of the
Colleagues:
It is official. eLocator debuted its first refereed publication on April 1,
2001.
Francis Vasko and Floyd Wolf published their manuscript entitled "A
Heuristic Concentration Approach for Weighted Set Covering Problems". The
PDF publication is available at
the US Locator site and
the EU Locator site.
Cheers,
Trevor
Dear fellow locators:
This is a first announcement of next year’s International
Symposium on Location Decisions - ISOLDE.
As you may
know, the 2002 conference will take place in New Brunswick.
The dates are
Thursday, June 13 - Tuesday, June 18, 2002 in Fredericton & St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada.
Please reserve those dates for this triennial event.
The first call
for papers will be issued this summer, and the deadline for
submissions will be towards the end of the year.
We will be in
touch with you as more details become available.
The organizing committee:
H.A. Eiselt, Gilbert Laporte, Antonio
Antunes, Joao Coutinho, John Current.
You can reach us at
haeiselt@unb.ca
A message of Joy Bhadury, Chair - Section On Location Analysis, INFORMS
Section on Location Analysis (SOLA) of INFORMS wishes to announce a call for submissions for the bi-annual "UPS-SOLA Dissertation Award" given to the author of the best dissertation in the area of Location Analysis.
Dissertations written in English, completed between July 1, 1999 and June 30, 2001, and dealing with issues related to facility location are welcome. Students from all disciplines such as Management Science, Industrial Engineering, Geography, Economics etc. are welcome to apply.
All applicants should submit
Interested students should submit completed packages no later than July 1, 2001 to:
Dr. H. A.
Eiselt,
Chair – UPS-SOLA Dissertation
Award Committee,
Faculty of Administration,
University of New Brunswick, P.O. Box 4400,
Fredericton, New Brunswick - E3B 5A3, Canada.
Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2001.
The
XIII EURO Working Group in Locational Analysis
will take place in
Volos, Thessaly, Greece from November 28, 2001 to December 2, 2001.
The meeting will be organised by Yorgos Photis under the auspices
of the European Working Group on Locational Analysis
and will be hosted and supported (... so far) by the University of Thessaly.
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 2000.
STUDIES IN LOCATIONAL ANALYSIS ISSUE 15, December 2000, vi+100p on Computational Geometry in Location (Guest editor: J.A.Mesa)
STUDIES IN LOCATIONAL ANALYSIS ISSUE 14, June 2000, vi+294p on Selected papers of EWGLA10 (Guest editor: B.Pelegrin)
Date: Friday, January 19, 2001.
The XII EURO Working Group in Locational Analysis took place in Barcelona
from december 14 to 17, 2000.
The meeting was organized by Daniel Serra and hosted by the
Institut d'Estudis Territorials (Institute for Regional Studies)
and the Department of Economics and Business,
both from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
More than 50 papers were presented at the meeting related to Location Theory
and modeling in only one scheduled session, to have maximum exposure and discussion.
The attendants came from heterogeneous background:
economists, mathematicians, engineers, geographers, operations researchers,
and even a philosopher!
Several countries were represented: Spain (of course), Belgium, Italy, Netherlands,
Japan, UK, Canada, USA, Chile, Russia, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and Israel among others.
During the meeting it was decided that the next one will take place in Greece,
and Yorgos Photis will take care of the organization.
Good luck Yorgos!
Thanks to the generous help of Robert Benkoczi our website has three new
tools available, collecting and synthesizing the information spread on
our LIST SERVER :
Jörg Fliege has made his recent work and collected information on
location of airpolluting facilities available as
OLAF - A General Modeling System to Evaluate and Optimize the Location of an Air Polluting Facility
Date: Wednesday, September 1, 1999.
STUDIES IN LOCATIONAL ANALYSIS ISSUE 13, June 1999, ii+102p on Managerial Methods in Location
STUDIES IN LOCATIONAL ANALYSIS ISSUE 12, April 1999, iv+118p on Undesirable Facility Location