7th ESICUP Meeting
Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 6-9, 2010
within ALIO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting
co-hosted by ESICUP - The EURO Special Interest Group on Cutting, EURO, ALIO and
INFORMS.
http://www.fe.up.pt/esicup/extern/esicup-7thMeeting
To submit a comunication to the 7th ESICUP Meeting write a short abstract (500
characters maximum, approximately 50 words) on a cutting and packing topic and submit
it by email to [log in to unmask] (further details:
http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~esicup/extern/esicup-7thMeeting/pmwiki.php?
n=Conference.AbstractSubmission)
The 7th ESICUP Meeting is the 2010 regular meeting of ESICUP (EURO Special Interest
Group on Cutting and Packing) and provides a forum for those working in the Cutting &
Packing field, bringing together researchers from all over the world. This year edition will
take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina as a meeting-within-a-meeting, during the ALIO-
INFORMS Joint International Meeting (http://meetings.informs.org/BuenosAires2010/).
Extended submission deadline: January 7, 2010
Meeting Aims and Objectives
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The 7th ESICUP Meeting is the 2010 regular meeting of ESICUP and follows meetings in
Wittenberg (Germany), Southampton (United Kingdom), Porto (Portugal), Tokyo (Japan),
L'Aquila (Italy) and Valencia (Spain). This year edition is a meeting-within-a-meeting at
ALIO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting. ESICUP gathers practitioners, researchers and
Operations Research educators with interests in the area of Cutting and Packing. The
purpose of ESICUP is to improve communication among individuals working in this field.
Besides the promotion of publications, the activities of the group include the maintenance
of a web page and the organization of meetings. Founded in 1988, during the EURO/TIMS
Conference in Paris, by Prof. Gerhard Waescher and Prof. Harald Dyckhoff, it has now
around 600 members, registered on the web site, from the entire world. ESICUP is since
2003 a Working Group of the Association of European Operational Research Societies
(EURO).
Topics of Interest
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In this meeting contributions dealing with any aspect of the Cutting and Packing problems
formulation, resolution or application are welcomed. This includes theoretical
achievements, algorithms development and real-world implementations. Different
problems, related with Cutting and Packing, are also welcomed. Typical, but not exclusive
topics of interest are:
One-Dimensional Problems
Two-Dimensional Rectangular Problems
Nesting and irregular shapes packing
Three-Dimensional Packing
Bin-Packing
Container Loading
Problem generators and benchmarks
Additional Objectives and Constraints in C&P
Typologies
Industrial applications
Program Committee
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José Fernando Oliveira, (chair) University of Porto
Julia Bennell, University of Southampton
António Miguel Gomes, University of Porto
Gerhard Waescher, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg
Horacio Yanasse, National Institute for Space Research (Brazil)
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