8th ESICUP Meeting
Copenhagen, Denmark, May 19 - 21, 2011
co-hosted by ESICUP - The EURO Special Interest Group on Cutting, EURO, University of Copenhagen and Technical University of Denmark.
http://www.fe.up.pt/esicup/extern/esicup-8thMeeting
The 8th ESICUP Meeting is the 2011 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 Copenhagen, Denmark.
To submit a comunication to the 8th ESICUP Meeting write an abstract (3000 characters maximum, approximately 1 page) on a cutting and packing topic and submit it by email to [log in to unmask] no later than April 1, 2011.
Further details:http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~esicup/extern/esicup-7thMeeting/pmwiki.php?n=Conference.AbstractSubmission.
Important Dates
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April 1, 2011 - Deadline for Abstract Submission.
April 8, 2011 - Notification of acceptance.
April 15, 2011 - Deadline for early registration and authors registration.
May 19-21, 2011 - 8th ESICUP Meeting.
Meeting Aims and Objectives
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The 8th ESICUP Meeting is the 2009 regular meeting of ESICUP and follows meetings in Wittenberg (Germany), Southampton (United Kingdom), Porto (Portugal), Tokyo (Japan), L'Aquila (Italy), Valencia (Spain) and Buenos Aires (Argentina).
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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David Pisinger, (chair) Technical University of Denmark
Martin Zachariasen, University of Copenhagen
Jesper Larsen, Technical University of Denmark
Line Blander Reinhardt, Technical University of Denmark
Dina Riis Johannessen, University of Denmark
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
David Pisinger, Technical University of Denmark
Further details available online:
http://www.fe.up.pt/~esicup/extern/esicup-8thMeeting
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