[Apdio] CfP - 7th ESICUP Meeting | Deadline extended

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

Dear colleagues,

Due to several requests from authors and the Christmas and holiday season we decided to extend the submission of abstracts deadline to January 7, 2010. This will be the final submission date.

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7th ESICUP Meeting
Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 6-9, 2010
within ALIO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting

co-hosted by ESICUP - The EURO Special Interest Group on Cutting, EURO, ALIO and INFORMS.

http://www.fe.up.pt/esicup/extern/esicup-7thMeeting

To submit a comunication to the 7th ESICUP Meeting write a short abstract (500 characters maximum, approximately 50 words) on a cutting and packing topic and submit it by email to esicup@gmail.com (further details: http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~esicup/extern/esicup-7thMeeting/pmwiki.php?n=Conference.AbstractSubmission)

The 7th ESICUP Meeting is the 2010 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 Buenos Aires, Argentina as a meeting-within-a-meeting, during the ALIO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting (http://meetings.informs.org/BuenosAires2010/).

Extended submission deadline: January 7, 2010

Meeting Aims and Objectives
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The 7th ESICUP Meeting is the 2010 regular meeting of ESICUP and follows meetings in Wittenberg (Germany), Southampton (United Kingdom), Porto (Portugal), Tokyo (Japan), L'Aquila (Italy) and Valencia (Spain). This year edition is a meeting-within-a-meeting at ALIO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting. 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


Program Committee
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José Fernando Oliveira, (chair) University of Porto
Julia Bennell, University of Southampton
António Miguel Gomes, University of Porto
Gerhard Waescher, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg
Horacio Yanasse, National Institute for Space Research (Brazil)


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