[Opt-net] CfP Special Session: Metaheuristics for Lot Sizing at MIC 2009

[Christian Almeder]

Call for Papers for a Special Session on “Metaheuristic and Hybrid Solution Methods for Lot Sizing and Scheduling Problems”

 

at the

MIC 2009 - VIII METAHEURISTIC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (Hamburg, July 13 - 16, 2009)

 

Among the most important and challenging problems are the sizing and scheduling of production lots. In many industrial applications, especially from the process industries, the close relationship between lot sizing and scheduling makes it imperative that both decisions are made simultaneously in order to efficiently use capacity. Traditional models have been increasingly refined to incorporate more detail and integrate lot sizing with scheduling.

Increasing realism turns the mathematical models larger and more complex. This added complexity, and the need to increase the size of instances solvable to near‐optimality, requires the use of heuristic, metaheuristic and matheuristic methods.

 

This special session on Lot Sizing and Scheduling is dedicated to contribution on the following topics among others:

- Metaheuristics for lot sizing and scheduling problems (deterministic and stochastic).

- Hybrid solution approaches combining ideas from metaheuristic and exact methods

- Successful applications of lot sizing and scheduling models in real world cases using above mentioned solution techniques.

- Comparison of different solution techniques.

 

For guidelines and submission, please see the official conference website:

http://www.smartframe.de/mic09/Home.html

 

Organizers of the special session:

- Christian Almeder, University of Vienna, Austria, Christian.Almeder at univie.ac.at

- Bernardo Almada-Lobo, University of Porto, Portugal, Almada.Lobo at fe.up.pt

 

Important Dates

1. Deadline for manuscripts submissions: 15 March 2009

2. Deadline for acceptance: 30 April 2009

3. Deadline for the submissions of final manuscripts: 15 May 2009

 

 

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Univ.Ass. Dr. Christian Almeder

 

Dept. of Production & Operations Management

Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics

University of Vienna

Bruenner Str. 72

A-1210 Vienna, Austria

 

and

 

Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Departamento de Engenharia Industrial e Gestão

Rua Dr. Roberto Frias - 4200-465 Porto - PORTUGAL

 

tel: +43-1-4277-38097 or +351 22508 1844

fax: +43-1-4277-38094

e-mail:  <mailto:Christian.Almeder at univie.ac.at> Christian.Almeder at univie.ac.at

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