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Authors are invited to submit their original and unpublished work to this Special Session.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 Website. 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@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@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)

 The IEEE CEC/WCCI 2012 Website can be seen from here.