2015 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems (CIPLS 2015)

Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI)

7-10 December 2015, Cape Town, South Africa

 

Bülent Çatay, Turkey; Raymond Chiong, Australia; Patrick Siarry, France

http://ieee-ssci.org.za:8080/CIPLS

Call for Papers

The management of production and logistics systems in today’s fierce competition environment is a difficult task and has become progressively complex. Major changes in products, processes, technologies, and societies bring along remarkable challenges and increasing market demands. Modelling and optimisation of complex problems arising in production and logistics systems is of paramount importance in surviving and achieving competitive gains in productivity and quality.

In recent years, the advancements in computer technology have allowed researchers to tackle large-scale problems and to develop and integrate efficient optimisation techniques for solving them. Within this context, CIPLS aims to address issues related to the design, planning, control, and continuous improvement of production and logistics systems using computational intelligence, including local search methods, evolutionary algorithms and other nature-inspired optimisation techniques. The intention is to cover various aspects of production from aggregate planning to shop-floor execution systems and modelling, planning and control of logistics systems. Studies incorporating real-world applications are highly encouraged.

Topics

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

·         Production planning and control

·         Flexible manufacturing systems

·         Integrated production system and process design

·         Capacity planning

·         Lot sizing

·         Assembly lines

·         Inventory control

·         Facilities planning and design

·         Transport and distribution planning

·         Vehicle routing and scheduling

·         Multi-modal transport

·         Sustainability and green logistics

·         Logistics network design

·         Decision support systems in production and logistics

Important Dates

Special session proposals:  May 14, 2015

Full paper submission due:  June 14, 2015

Notification of acceptance:  September 4, 2015

Final paper submission due: October 4, 2015

Symposium Co-Chairs

Bülent Çatay, Sabanci University, Turkey

Raymond Chiong, The University of Newcastle, Australia

Patrick Siarry, Université Paris XII Val de Marne, France

Program Committee Members (tentative)

Bernardo Almada-Lobo, University of Porto, Portugal

Tolga Bektas, University of Southampton, UK

Christian Bierwirth, University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

Hector Cancela, University of the Republic, Uruguay

Maurice Clerc, http://mauriceclerc.net, France

Oscar Cordon, European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain

Moussa Diaf, University of Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria

Deniz Tursel Eliiyi, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey

Mourad Fakhfakh, University of Sfax, Tunisia

Richard Hartl, University of Vienna, Austria

Krystel Castillo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Pennyslvania State University, USA

Florian Jaehn, University of Augsburg, Germany

Jorg Lassig, University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Goerlitz, Germany

Guohua Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology, USA

Frank Meisel, University of Kiel, Germany

Zbigniew Michalewicz, University of Adelaide, Australia

Nicolas Monmarche, University of Tours, France

Luc Muyldermans, University of Nottingham, UK

Antonio J Nebro, University of Malaga, Spain

Sylvie Norre, Blaise Pascal University, France

Ceyda Oguz, Koc University, Turkey

Erwin Pesch, University of Siegen, Germany

Henri Pierreval, Clermont University, France

Miguel A Salido, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

Guillaume Sandou, Supelec, France

Ruhul A Sarker, University of New South Wales, Australia

Fatih Tasgetiren, Yasar University, Turkey

Claudio Toledo, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Ozgur Toy, Turkish Naval Academy, Turkey

Stefan Voss, University of Hamburg, Germany

Thomas Weise, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Farouk Yalaoui, Technical University of Troyes, France

Rui Zhang, Nanchang University, China