URBE 
URban freight and BEhavior change 

October 1^st - 2^nd  2015, Rome, Italy
 
Conference organized by Department of Political Sciences and Centre for Research on the Economics of Institutions, University of Roma Tre
 
Website: http://host.uniroma3.it/eventi/urbe

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the URBE - URban freight and BEhavior change Conference to be held in Rome, Italy, October 1^st-2^nd, 2015. Researchers, practitioners, politicians and public authorities are invited to use the conference as a platform for knowledge-exchange and transfer.

The conference is endorsed by: 1) Center of Excellence for Sustainable Urban Freight Systems, 2) WCTRS’ Freight Modelling (SIGB5), 3) Italian Society of Transport Economics and Logistics.

Aims and scope

URBE aims at identifying the behavioral game changers capable of modifying the present trends and pro-actively responding to the sustainability challenges urban freight distribution poses to modern cities given the role it plays in  linking production, logistics and society.

The conference, taking a trans-disciplinary approach, focuses on the various alternatives capable of stimulating stakeholders’ behavioral change and engagement for a sustainable urban freight distribution. In more detail, the main topics relate to the behavioral pros and cons of: stakeholder involvement methodologies, advanced modeling techniques, innovative organizational structures, policy appraisal and evaluation techniques.

Please find below a non-exhaustive list of possible subjects to be addressed.

Submission
We are now inviting submissions for conference presentations. Extended abstracts (max. 2 pages, please follow the instructions on the website) should contain all relevant information to allow the peer review process, giving an overview of: (1) main objectives and motivations, (2) topics covered and methodology, (3) results obtained/expected and conclusions.

The deadline for abstract submission is April 1st, 2015. Abstracts should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and will be assessed by the scientific committee within a double-blind-review.

Journal special issues
The intention is to organize special issues of selected papers in appropriate journals depending upon a critical mass of good papers.

Timeline

• 01 April, 2015 – Submission of extended abstracts
• 01 May, 2015 – Notification of abstract status
• 01 July, 2015 – Early registration deadline
• 01 September, 2015 – Submission of full papers and registration deadline for Authors
• 01-02 October, 2015 – Conference in Rome, Italy

We look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you on October 1-2, 2015 in Rome, Italy

Sincerely,

Local Organizing Committee

Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Website: http://host.uniroma3.it/eventi/urbe​​

Workshop 2015 – Ageing and the Economy

• All information at: http://www.armenia2015.regionalscience.org/

Call for Papers

22nd APDR Workshop | 24 April 2014 | Ponte de Lima, Portugal

The Portuguese Association for Regional Development started a new cycle of workshops aimed at bringing together scientists that consider family as an institution with several and important interactions with economic and social development. This theme seems to have been dismissed by regional development scientists, even though it appears the family dimension is clearly relevant in educational processes and in dynamic migration, in transport systems, in social security systems and welfare services provision, in corporate sustainability and entrepreneurship, and in many other dimensions that influence the development of people and places.

The 20th APDR workshop (April 2014) was dedicated to this theme - Family and Development – and it was a first step in the direction of a more intense and rich debate about family and regional development. It is well known by demographers and sociologists that families may be quite different across Europe and across different regions of a single country. Evidence from diverse transition to adulthood patterns (age and dynamics of leaving home, forming independent households, living alone, forming unions and/or marrying, having a first child) is quite expressive about this. These differences, as others concerning ownership and family structures, are the result of different historical conditions and paths of change, as well of different strategies contemporary families adopt in order to cope with economic and sociopolitical contexts and dynamics.

On the other hand, family bonds are quite important in some corporate branches and/or in some territories and regions. The informal networks and the complex articulation between family and business strategies and management have been studied for years, with particular relevance in southern economies, such as Portugal, Spain and Italy. It is relevant to deepen our knowledge about these long lasting articulations, about their benefits as well as their undesirable effects, and about the way family and economy evolve in different places.

We are now willing to bring together, one more time, different scientific perspectives on the theme Family and Regional Development, with a particular attention being given to the Southern Europe. It is necessary to understand better family dynamics and diversity, how these affect social and economic processes at a regional scale, and to profound our knowledge about how family business imply the consideration of specific concepts and methodologies in order to provide a better understanding of this phenomenon, so important in our economies.

http://www.apdr.pt/evento_22/index.html

*Plenary session*

The Keynote Lecture will be delivered by David Sven Reher (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

TOPICS

1. Family, education and development of people and places

2. Economies of scale and agglomeration of family models

3. Labour Market, Migration and Family

4. Spatial and temporal evolution of family businesses

5. Family, social security and welfare

IMPORTANT DATES

Until March 1st, 2015- Submission of abstracts

Until April 15th 2013 - Submission of full paper

Until April 15th 2013 – Registration

April 24th 2013 - Workshop 

We count on you. Send us your contribution!

21st APDR Congress joint with 55th ERSA Congress

The CALL for Abstracts and Papers is now OPEN

We are happy to announce that the Call for abstracts and Papers is now open.

The ERSA Congress is an exceptional platform for all authors making research in the field of regional science, and whether you are senior or junior researcher:

See the profile of ERSA Participants 2014

Key benefits include:

- Numerous Networking Opportunities

- Precious Feedback from colleagues around the world

- Enriching your knowledge at different levels

Deadline to submit: 2 March 2015

Please note the review of abstracts (and) papers will be made all at the same time. The upload of the paper is not always required.

For more details on the call for submissions click here

Don't miss this opportunity to be part of the World's largest gathering of Regional Science researchers!

www.ersalisbon2015.org

General Themes and Special Sessions' Topics

Discover the wide range of themes and Topics for submitting to this 2015 edition

- 24 General Themes  - The review will be made by the Scientific Committee.

- 28 Special Session Topics - Freshly approved by the Local Organising Committee.
The Review will be made by Special Session Organisers. 

Dear Colleagues & Friends,

Extended deadline; Submission deadline Monday 26^th of January 2015.

Although we have received quite many abstracts, we will invite and give the opportunity for more scholars to submit abstracts within the overall theme: “Regional development in an international context - Regional, national, cross border and international factors for growth and development” (see attached CFP).

The host of the 18^th Uddevalla Symposium 2015  is University of Southern Denmark, campus Sönderborg! We are really looking forward moving the Uddevalla Symposium to Denmark! June 11-13, 2015.
www.symposium.hv.se

Sorry for any cross-posting!

Best regards,

Iréne Bernhard

On behalf of the organizing committee

………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Irene Bernhard, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer & Coordinator Uddevalla Symposia

University West

School of Business, Economics & IT

Se-461 86 Trollhättan, Sweden

Phone +46 520 22 36 78

Mobile +46 733 975102

www.hv.se

www.symposium.hv.se

2015 International Work-Conference on Time Series (ITISE 2015)

1st-3rd July, 2015. Granada (SPAIN)

itise.ugr.es

It is our great pleasure to remind you the International Work-Conference on Time Series (ITISE 2015), which will take place in Granada (Spain) in July, 2015. Details and instructions for the conference can be found at the conference web site (itise.ugr.es). The ITISE 2015 (International work-conference on Time Series) seeks to provide a discussion forum for scientists, engineers, educators and students about the latest ideas and realizations in the foundations, theory, models and applications for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research encompassing disciplines of computer science, mathematics, statistics, forecaster, econometric, etc, in the field of time series analysis and forecasting.

We encourage you to submit paper focused on interesting, relevant and original works that are related to these subjects. We also admit the submission of short abstracts, which must be extended to full paper in case of being accepted. You could also be interested in organizing a special session for this conference. These are some important and final dates for the submission.

Submission of Special Session proposals: January 15th, 2015.

Submission of abstracts by authors: January 15th, 2015.

Submission of papers by authors: February 8th, 2015.

Notification of provisional acceptance: April 28th, 2015.

Submission of final papers: May 10th, 2015.

Registration of final papers: May 18th, 2015.

Early registration (special rates): May 18th, 2015.

ITISE CONFERENCE: July 1st-3rd, 2015.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1.-Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

Nonparametric and functional methods

Forecasting with Many Models. Model integration

Econometric models, etc.

2.- Advanced method and on-Line Learning in time series.

Adaptivity for stochastic models

Time series analysis with computational intelligence, etc.

3.- High Dimension and Complex/Big Data.

Techniques for dimension reduction

Forecasting Complex/Big data, etc.

4.- Forecasting in real problem.

Real time macroeconomic monitoring and forecasting

Applications in: energy, finance, transportation, networks, meteorology, health, research and environment, etc.

Paper publication:

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under both ISBN and ISSN references. Contributions will be indexed in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Thomson Reuters) and the DBLP database.

Special issues:

A list of papers with very high quality will be selected to be extended and submitted in different special issues. At the moment, we have contact with 3 journals indexed in JCR. More information in the web page of the conference (itise.ugr.es).

It will be a pleasure if you can actively participate in ITISE 2015 conference. Thanks for your attention, and we hope to see you in Granada, during the ITISE 2015 event. Please, feel free to contact us for any further question or remark.

Sincerely yours.

ITISE 2015. Conference chairs.

International Work-Conference on Time Series- ITISE 2015. 1st-3rd July, 2015. Granada, Spain

2015 International Conference on Real Estate and Urban Economics (REUE 2015)

May 24-26, 2015   Beijing, China

Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite you to submit or recommend papers to 2015 International Conference on Real Estate and Urban Economics (REUE 2015) through paper submission system. REUE 2015 will be held from May 24 to 26, 2015 in Beijing, China. This conference will cover issues on Real Estate and Urban Economics.

All the accepted papers will be published by "Open Journal of Social Sciences" (ISSN:2327-5952), a peer-reviewed open access journal that can ensure the widest dissemination of your published work.

∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗General Information∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗

Conference Website:

www.engii.org/conf/REUE/2015may/

Conference Date:

May 24-26, 2015

Conference Venue:

Beijing, China

Submission Due:

Feb. 11, 2015

Topics (not limited to)

• Urban economics

• Corporate finance

• Migration of population

• Integration of urban and rural areas

• National central city

• City or metropolitan circle

• Housing system and security

• Housing economics and finance

• Commercial real estate

• Real estate finance

• Leasehold and rental markets

• Financial leverage

• International housing

• Tourism real estate

• Home bias and brokerage

• Mortgage markets

Thank you very much for your attention and best regards,

Becky

REUE Organizing Committee

E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Tel: +86 18627737240

Linkedin: Engii Conference

Facebook: Engii Conf

Dear colleagues, 

The Master of Science in Spatial, Transport and Environmental Economics (“STREEM”) is a one-year master’s programme offered at the Department of Spatial Economics, VU University Amsterdam, which is one of the main players world-wide in these three fields of specialization. This master will be of interest to students with a background not only in economics, but also in geography, transport science and related disciplines. The programme starts in September each year and is completely taught in English. More detailed information is provided at the website.

We would very much appreciate if you could bring this Master under the attention of students who may be interested. We would also like to mention the possibilities for scholarships. Our Faculty of Economics and Business Administration recently established its own Piet Rietveld Scholarship. Also the VU Fellowship Programme (VUFP) offers talented prospective students opportunities for a grant. In addition, there are scholarship opportunities outside VU University.

The application deadline for the next academic year is 1 April, 2015 (and 1 March, 2015, if applying for a scholarship). The admission and application procedure can be found here .

In addition to the master’s programme STREEM, we offer a summer school (3 ects) on Metropolitan Economics from 6-17 July, 2015. This might be of interest to the same group of students. It addresses economic mechanisms behind urbanization, urban policy challenges, as well as policy instruments to address these. More information can be found on the website.

We look forward to welcoming new students at our department!

Thank you very much and kind regards,

Jos van Ommeren

Erik Verhoef

Dear Colleague:

The December 2014 issue of the North American Regional Science Newsletter is now available at http://www.narsc.org/newsite/?page_id=417.

I hope that you enjoy this issue.

I wish you all the best for a peaceful, happy, and productive 2015.

Neil Reid, Ph.D.
Executive Director
North American Regional Science Council