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Abstract submission deadline extended to January 8th.

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                      4th ESICUP Meeting

                   March 26-27, Tokyo, Japan

          http://www.fe.up.pt/esicup/esicup-4thMeeting

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co-sponsored by
ESICUP - The EURO Special Interest Group on Cutting and Packing and 21st 
Century COE Program on Information Science and Technology Strategic Core 
at University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan, March 26-27, 2007

Local Organizing Committee:
Kokichi Sugihara (Chair, Univ. of Tokyo)
Toshihide Ibaraki (Advisor, Kwansei Gakuin Univ.)
Shinji Imahori (Univ. of Tokyo)
Tetsushi Nishida (Univ. of Tokyo)
Masao Sugi (Univ. of Tokyo)
Shunji Umetani (Univ. Electro-Commnications)
Mutsunori Yagiura (Nagoya Univ.)

Program Committee:
José F. Oliveira - ESICUP coordinator
Gerhard Waescher
Julia Bennell
Kokichi Sugihara

General coordination:
Miguel Gomes - ESICUP webmaster

Up-to-date information at http://www.fe.up.pt/esicup/esicup-4thMeeting
(available on October 23)

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT - CALL FOR PAPERS

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 240 active 
members from the entire world. ESICUP is since 2003 a Working Group of 
the Association of European Operational Research Societies.

The 21st Century COE (Center of Excellence) Program is an initiative by 
the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and  
Technology (MEXT) to further strengthen educational research throughout  
Japan. The aims of this program are to form world-class research and  
education centers at universities in Japan, to cultivate creative human  
resources capable of improving research standards of leading the world, 
and to promote the building of universities of global appeal. This 
program covers almost all academic fields, such as mathematics, physics, 
life science, material science, engineering, sociology, and 
interdisciplinary science.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

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


IMPORTANT DATES

. Title and abstract submission - January 8, 2007
. Notification of acceptance - January 15, 2007
. Registration - February 15, 2007
. Meeting - March 26-27, 2007

ESICUP Coordinator
Jose F. Oliveira