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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-CH link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Dear Colleagues:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We would like to invite you to submit a paper to a Special Session on “Evolutionary Optimization Tools in Logistics”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The Special Session will be held at the 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Brisbane, Australia, 10-15 June, 2012. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Please find below further information on the Congress and the Special Session.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thomas Hanne and Rolf Dornberger <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Brisbane, Australia, 10-15 June, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Special Session on<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Evolutionary Optimization Tools in Logistics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>During the last decade the usage of techniques from evolutionary computation <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>and other optimization methods has significantly increased in the area of logistics <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>(in particular, in fields like vehicle routing, scheduling, material flow control, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>production planning, and supply chain management). Many of them led to considerably <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>improved solutions and are used today in practical environments. This session should <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>increase the awareness of respective approaches and tools. Concepts of specific <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>state-of-the-art methods and respective software implementations are to be presented. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The session should contribute to a better understanding of these methods, their <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>specific strengths and weaknesses in practical settings and facilitate their usage <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>by other researchers and by interested application partners in the field of logistics.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Authors are invited to submit their original and unpublished work to this Special <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Session. Topics of interest include but are not limited to <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Advances in evolutionary algorithms and related methods for problems in logistics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Software based on such methods <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Applications of evolutionary algorithms and related approaches to problems in logistics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Areas of applications in the field of logistics and supply chain management include <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>but are not limited to <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Transportation planning, especially vehicle routing problems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Production planning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Inventory management<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Material flow control<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Location planning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Network design<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Important Dates and Paper Submission:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>You should follow the instructions at the IEEE WCCI/CEC 2012 Web Site at<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/ieee-wcci2012/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Special session papers are treated the same as regular conference papers. The paper <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>submission deadline is Dec 19, 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Special Session Organizers:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thomas Hanne<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Riggenbachstr. 16, 4600 Olten, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>E-Mail: thomas.hanne@fhnw.ch<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Phone: +41 62 286 0160<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Rolf Dornberger<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Institute for Information Systems<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Peter Merian-Strasse 86, 4002 Basel, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>E-Mail: rolf.dornberger@fhnw.ch<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Phone: + 41 61 279 1774<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Program Committee:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Enrique Alba (Malaga University, Spain)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Fulya Altiparmak (Gazi University, Turkey)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- David Wolfe Corne (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Rolf Dornberger (University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Andreas Fink (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Michel Gendreau (CIRRELT, Canada)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Joern Grahl (University Mainz, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Thomas Hanne (University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Gilbert Laporte (CIRRELT, Canada)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Heitor Silverio Lopes (Federal University of Technology – Parana, Brazil)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Dirk Christian Mattfeld (Technical University Braunschweig, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Anna Piwonska (Bialystok University of Technology, Poland)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Franz Rothlauf (University Mainz, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Stefan Voß (University Hamburg, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Yue Wu (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>