[Apdio] CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 6th ESICUP MEETING, Valencia, Spain, March 26-27, 2008

["Jose F. Oliveira" <jfo@fe.up.pt>]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 6th ESICUP MEETING   [Apologies for cross-postings]

6th ESICUP Meeting 

Valencia, Spain, March 26-27, 2008

Website: http://www.fe.up.pt/~esicup/extern/esicup-6thMeeting

Important Dates

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January 30, 2009 - Deadline for Abstract Submission.

February 13, 2009 - Notification of acceptance.

February 27, 2009 - Deadline for early registration and authors registration.

March 26-27, 2009 - 6th ESICUP Meeting.

Meeting Aims and Objectives

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The 6th ESICUP Meeting is the 2009 regular meeting of ESICUP and follows meetings in Wittenberg (Germany), Southampton (United Kingdom), Porto (Portugal), Tokyo (Japan) and L'Aquila (Italy).

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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Ramón Álvarez-Valdés, (chair) University of Valencia

José Manuel Tamarit, University of Valencia

Francisco Parreño, University of Castilla-La Mancha

José Manuel Belenguer, University of Valencia

Program Committee

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José Fernando Oliveira, (chair) University of Porto

Ramón Álvarez-Valdés, University of Valencia

Julia Bennell, University of Southampton

António Miguel Gomes, University of Porto

Gerhard Wäscher, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

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EURO Special Interest Group on Cutting and Packing