9th ESICUP Meeting
La Laguna, Spain, March 21 - 23, 2012
co-hosted by ESICUP - The EURO Special Interest Group on Cutting, EURO and Universidad de La Laguna.
http://www.fe.up.pt/esicup/extern/esicup-9thMeeting
The 9th ESICUP Meeting is the 2012 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 San Cristobal de La Laguna, Canary Islands, Spain.
Important Dates
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February 3, 2012 - Deadline for Abstract Submission
February 11, 2012 - Notification of acceptance
February 18, 2012 - Deadline for early registration and authors registration
March 21-23, 2012 - 9th ESICUP Meeting
Meeting Aims and Objectives
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The 9th ESICUP Meeting is the 2012 regular meeting of ESICUP and follows meetings in Wittenberg (Germany), Southampton (United Kingdom), Porto (Portugal), Tokyo (Japan), L'Aquila (Italy), Valencia (Spain), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Copenhagen (Denmark).
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
Local Organising Committee
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Coromoto Leon, (chair) Universidad de La Laguna
Jésica de Armas Adrián, Universidad de La Laguna
Yanira González González, Universidad de La Laguna
Gara Miranda Valladares, Universidad de La Laguna
Eduardo Segredo González, Universidad de La Laguna
Carlos Segura González, Universidad de La Laguna
Program Committee
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José Fernando Oliveira, (chair) University of Porto
António Miguel Gomes, University of Porto
Gerhard Wäscher, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Ramón Alvarez-Valdés, University of Valencia
Julia Bennell, University of Southampton
Coromoto Leon, Universidad de La Laguna
Further details available online:
http://www.fe.up.pt/~esicup/extern/esicup-9thMeeting
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