EWGLA XVII: the XVII Meeting of the Euro Working Group on Locational Analysis

Abstract

The XVII Meeting of the Euro Working Group on Locational Analysis (EWGLA XVI) was held in Elche, Spain, from September 17 to 19, 2008. The Euro Working Group on Locational analysis (EWGLA) is a Working Group devoted to Locational Analysis within EURO (webpage: http://ewgla.fc.ul.pt/). It was created during the first EURO Summer Institute, held at Brussels, July/August 1984, devoted to the subject of Location Theory. The main aim of starting up the Working Group was to provide a network of people working together in the field of Locational Analysis. Since its creation, the group holds yearly meetings organized by one of its members. Various countries have hosted the meeting: France, Yugoslavia, Greece, Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, Portugal and Spain. Each time, the meeting is designed to provide a dynamic forum for critical interchange of ideas and experiences about locational analysis and related fields. EWGLA XVII was a fruitful workshop: more than 80 participants coming from 12 different countries took part in the meeting and a total of 56 scientific papers were presented and discussed there. The fact that fifteen percent of the assistants were students evidence that locational analysis is an interesting field for people starting research and also that the EWGLA group is concerned about promoting interest in the location analysis field. The topics presented at the meeting covered many different areas in locational analysis. Papers in this special issue represent the work discussed in EWGLA XVII. Robustness is the topic of the paper “Conditional Median as a Robust Solution Concept for Uncapacitated Location Problems” by W. Ogryczak. The papers “The Ordered Capacitated Facility Location Problem” by A.M. Rodriguez-Chia, J. Kalcsics,