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SCOPE : Logistics and Supply Chain Management fields lead to real-world optimization problems with increasing complexity. In a very high cost reduction environment, optimization of flows, storage and transportation activities becomes more and more relevant.
Metaheuristics are a family of optimization methods that can be useful to solve a wide variety of problems. Their modularity, their capacity to manipulate a huge mass of data and their ability to manage uncertainties give them a lot of assets for tackling the hard optimization problems that can play a role in the supply chain management.

This special session invites the submission of works in which metaheuristics are used in the logistics area. It concerns the following topics, including but not limited to:
- Metaheuristics implementations in logistics-related problems
- Logistics network design
- Supply chain and uncertainties

- optimization in collaborative supply chain

- hybridization metaheuristic / optimization method or metaheuristic / performance evaluation model

IMPORTANT DATES 

-         May 27, 2016: Extended Paper submission deadline

-         June 3, 2016: Notification to the authors

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

This special session will be held as part of the META’16 conference. Please submit your paper using the online submission system, as described in the instructions for authors. During the submission process you should indicate that the paper is for a special session, which is: ‘Metaheuristics for Supply Chain and Logistics Optimization’. Detailed instructions for submitting the papers are provided on the conference home page at:

http://meta2016.sciencesconf.org/

CATEGORIES OF SUBMISSIONS 

Several categories of submissions may be accepted:

-         S1: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages

-         S2: Original research contributions of a maximum of 10 pages

-         S3: High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last year, been submitted or accepted for journal publication

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 

Accepted papers in categories S1 and S2 will be published in the proceedings that will be available at the conference. In addition, a post-conference Springer book and special issue of Journals is planned to be published. Participants will be invited to submit extended versions of their work for consideration.

SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS:

-        Laurent DEROUSSI (Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France, [log in to unmask])