[Opt-net] Special Session on Evolutionary Optimization Tools in Logistics at WCCI 2012

[Hanne Thomas]

Dear Colleagues:

We would like to invite you to submit a paper to a Special Session on "Evolutionary Optimization Tools in Logistics".
The Special Session will be held at the 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Brisbane, Australia, 10-15 June, 2012.
Please find below further information on the Congress and the Special Session.

Best wishes,
Thomas Hanne and Rolf Dornberger


     2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
         Brisbane, Australia, 10-15 June, 2012

               Special Session on
      Evolutionary Optimization Tools in Logistics

During the last decade the usage of techniques from evolutionary computation
and other optimization methods has significantly increased in the area of logistics
(in particular, in fields like vehicle routing, scheduling, material flow control,
production planning, and supply chain management). Many of them led to considerably
improved solutions and are used today in practical environments. This session should
increase the awareness of respective approaches and tools. Concepts of specific
state-of-the-art methods and respective software implementations are to be presented.
The session should contribute to a better understanding of these methods, their
specific strengths and weaknesses in practical settings and facilitate their usage
by other researchers and by interested application partners in the field of logistics.

Authors are invited to submit their original and unpublished work to this Special
Session. Topics of interest include but are not limited to

- Advances in evolutionary algorithms and related methods for problems in logistics
- Software based on such methods
- Applications of evolutionary algorithms and related approaches to problems in logistics

Areas of applications in the field of logistics and supply chain management include
but are not limited to

- Transportation planning, especially vehicle routing problems
- Production planning
- Inventory management
- Material flow control
- Location planning
- Network design

Important Dates and Paper Submission:

You should follow the instructions at the IEEE WCCI/CEC 2012 Web Site at
http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/ieee-wcci2012/
Special session papers are treated the same as regular conference papers. The paper
submission deadline is Dec 19, 2011.

Special Session Organizers:
Thomas Hanne
University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
Riggenbachstr. 16, 4600 Olten, Switzerland
E-Mail: thomas.hanne at fhnw.ch
Phone: +41 62 286 0160

Rolf Dornberger
University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
Institute for Information Systems
Peter Merian-Strasse 86, 4002 Basel, Switzerland
E-Mail: rolf.dornberger at fhnw.ch
Phone: + 41 61 279 1774

Program Committee:
- Enrique Alba (Malaga University, Spain)
- Fulya Altiparmak (Gazi University, Turkey)
- David Wolfe Corne (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom)
- Rolf Dornberger (University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland)
- Andreas Fink (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany)
- Michel Gendreau (CIRRELT, Canada)
- Joern Grahl (University Mainz, Germany)
- Thomas Hanne (University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland)
- Gilbert Laporte (CIRRELT, Canada)
- Heitor Silverio Lopes (Federal University of Technology - Parana, Brazil)
- Dirk Christian Mattfeld (Technical University Braunschweig, Germany)
- Anna Piwonska (Bialystok University of Technology, Poland)
- Franz Rothlauf (University Mainz, Germany)
- Stefan Voß (University Hamburg, Germany)
- Yue Wu (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)



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