5th ESICUP Meeting
L'Aquila, Italy, April 20 - 22, 2008
website: http://www.fe.up.pt/~esicup/extern/esicup-5thMeeting
Important Dates
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February 15, 2008 - Deadline for Abstract Submission.
February 29, 2008 - Notification of acceptance.
March 21, 2008 - Deadline for early registration and authors
registration.
April 20-22, 2008 - 5th ESICUP Meeting.
Meeting Aims and Objectives
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The 5th ESICUP Meeting is the 2008 regular meeting of ESICUP and
follows meetings in Wittenberg (Germany), Southampton (United
Kingdom), Porto (Portugal) and Tokyo (Japan).
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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Claudio Arbib, (chair) Università degli Studi di L'Aquila
Fabrizio Marinelli, Università Politecnica delle Marche
Ferdinando Pezzella, Università Politecnica delle Marche
Program Committee
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José Fernando Oliveira, (ESICUP Coordinator) University of Porto
Gerhard Wäscher, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Julia Bennell, University of Southampton
Claudio Arbib, Università degli Studi di L'Aquila
António Miguel Gomes, University of Porto
Further details available online:
http://www.fe.up.pt/~esicup/extern/esicup-5thMeeting
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