[Iefac.list] JUNE 15 -Special Session: Supply Chain Design, Optimization, and Management - IEEE Symposium

[Krystel Castillo]

The deadline is June 15th. Best papers will be invited to submit full paper for a special issue.

A Special Session on
Supply Chain Design, Optimization, and Management
2014 IEEE Symposium on
Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems
Orlando, Florida, USA - December 9 -12, 2014.

Technical Focus

Nowadays, customer demand for order variety, short lead time, increased quality, sustainability concerns, and fast delivery have created a great impact on manufacturing and logistics problems. The related problems of manufacturing and logistics support are even more crucial than ever. Traditional approaches are incapable of dealing with the challenges of intractable problems. Thus, there is a need for the development of new solution methods to address these challenging issues. Metaheuristics and heuristic provide a new problem-solving paradigm for researchers and practitioners.

Papers are invited dealing with theoretical and experimental advances in the use of computational intelligence for the design, optimization, and management of manufacturing/service supply chains and logistics systems. The goal of this special session is to present theoretical concepts and practical state-of-the-art approaches to solve challenging problems in logistics systems, enabled by improved mathematical models and novel solution procedures based on metaheuristics, hybrids, and heuristics.

Papers should include novel theoretical contributions or applications. It is preferable to have theoretical results complemented with experimental evaluations.  Papers from the industrial sector are strongly encouraged.  Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


·     Managing Disruptions in Supply Chains

·     Supply Chain Management

·     Reverse Logistics

·     Green Supply Chain Management

·     Supply Network Design

·     Vehicle Routing

·     Transportation Science and Logistics



Special Session Co-Organizers
Prof. Krystel Castillo
University of Texas at San Antonio
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
San Antonio, TX, USA

E-mail: Krystel.Castillo at utsa.edu


Prof. Rosa Gonzalez-Ramirez

Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso

Industrial Engineering School

Valparaiso, Chile

E-mail: rosa.gonzalez at ucv.cl




Instructions for Authors

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than eight pages in IEEE double-column conference style (U.S. Letter format), including results, figures and references, with a maximum file size of 4MB, in PDF format. More information regarding the submission process can be found at the conference website http://www.ieee-ssci.org/index.html.

The papers are to be submitted via the official conference website submission form (http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/ssci2014/upload.php) where "Special Session on Supply Chain Design, Optimization, and Management" should be selected as main research topic.

Paper Submission Deadline: 15 June 2014
Notification of Acceptance: 05 September 2014
Camera-Ready Copy Due: 05 October 2014
Early Registration: 05 October 2014
Conference Presentation: 9-12 December 2014


For more information please contact Dr. Castillo at krystel.castillo at utsa.edu<mailto:krystel.castillo at utsa.edu>

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