[APDIO] Call for abstract -- "Manufacturing Modelling, Management, and Control"

["A. Ismael F. Vaz" <aivaz@dps.uminho.pt>]

Dear colleagues,

We are very pleased to announce and to invite you to submit relevant work to the special invited session “Risk, resilience, and recovery in project management and scheduling ”, included in the program of the 8th IFAC Conference on "Manufacturing Modelling, Management, and Control" - MIM 2016 - to be held in Troyes*, France, on June 28 to 30, 2016. Authors who will make a submission in this session must do it as invited paper and indicate the following invited session code: (56n6q).

More details are available on the following websites:

http://mim2016.utt.fr/index.htm

http://mim2016.utt.fr/sessions.htm

https://ifac.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl#MIM16

“Robust optimization: advances and industrial applications”

Project Management and Scheduling (PM&S) is increasingly becoming a major activity for companies around the world. This key activity not only applies to construction and software development but also to manufacturing, service and governmental organizations. The right estimation of resources, activity durations and capital can save millions of dollars in large projects. However, most projects are rarely executed as expected due to events that lead to delays, instability and ultimately increasing costs. To date, most of the research literature has focused on deterministic PM&S whose applicability has been disputed over the years due to unrealistic assumptions and to lack of provisions to handle disruptions. These can be uncertainty in the activity durations, unexpected shortage of resources, and/or changes in the scope of the project. This session focuses on novel approaches of PM&S aimed to either reduce the impact of the aforementioned disruptions or to restore th

 e proje

ct back to a desired state (“back on track”) with minimal cost/effort. The goal of this session is to bring together researchers and practitioners that have both theoretical and practical experience in the scheduling and management of projects. The primary objective is to have a forum to discuss ideas, novel approaches, and case studies and to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Special attention will be paid to real-life applications and to theories put into practice. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

·         Risk management in projects 

·         Agile methodologies and scheduling 

·         Project Resilience 

·         Disruption estimation and prevention 

·         Recovery in Project Management 

·         Robust Project Scheduling 

·         Multi-objective Project Scheduling 

·         Multi-skill Project Scheduling 

·         Novel modeling tools and applications 

·         Case studies

Session organizers: Gonzalo Mejía (gonzalo.mejia@pucv.cl), Lionel Amodeo (lionel.amodeo@utt.fr) and Carlos Montoya (c_montoya@javeriana.edu.co).

*Troyes, historical capital of Champagne, is a lively and charming commercial city, with a remarkable architectural and cultural heritage. Troyes is also known as the European capital for brand outlets and factory shops.