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ESICUP, EURO Special Interest Group on Cutting and Packing
Last update: 2010-07-14
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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 website 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 members from the entire world. ESICUP is since 2003 an EURO Working Group of the Association of European Operational Research Societies.
We encourage both researchers and practicioners interested in Cutting and Packing to join us.
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| Coordinator: |
José F. Oliveira |
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Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Rua Dr. Roberto Frias
4200-465 PORTO
PORTUGAL |
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| Coordinator: |
A. Miguel Gomes |
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Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Rua Dr. Roberto Frias
4200-465 PORTO
PORTUGAL |
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| Board: |
- Gerhard Waescher, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany
- Ramón Alvarez-Valdes, University of Valencia, Spain
- Julia Bennell, University of Southampton, United Kingdam |
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| Members: |
By the end of December 2009 ESICUP had around 630 users registered in the web site. Around 50 people attend each year the annual ESICUP Meeting and the stream on Cutting and Packing, organized each year in the EURO K or IFORS K Conferences, gathers a similar number of members. |
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Purpose and history
ESICUP gathers practitioners, researchers and OR educators with interests in the area of Cutting and Packing. This EWG has its roots in SICUP, a group founded in 1988, during the EURO/TIMS Conference in Paris, by Prof. Gerhard Waescher and Prof. Harold Dyckhoff.
During its life SICUP promoted three special numbers of EJOR on Cutting and Packing:
- H. Dyckhoff and G. Waescher, EJOR 44 (2) (1990)
- E. Bischoff and G. Waescher, EJOR 84 (3) (1995)
- P. Wang and G. Waescher, EJOR 141 (2) (2002)
The group has also organized workshops within major OR conferences, mainly in the form of invited sessions or organized clusters:
- IFORS 2002, Edinburgh
- INFORMS 2000, San Antonio, USA
- EURO 1998, Brussels
- IFORS 1996, Vancouver
- TIMS 1995, Singapore
- IFORS 1993, Lisbon
- ORSA/TIMS 1992, San Francisco, USA
- IFORS 1990, Athens
- EURO/TIMS 1988, Paris
The average number of members attending these workshops has been 30 and a web page was kept running.
At Edinburgh meeting, it was decided that the moment of becoming a formal group had arrived. Considering the distribution of the member's nationalities and without excluding anyone from belonging to the group, EURO looked the right environment. During EURO 2003 Conference, at Istanbul, ESICUP - EURO Special Interest Group on Cutting and Packing was formally announced.
Since then invited sessions or organized clusters have been organized within the following major OR conferences:
- EURO/INFORMS 2003, Istanbul
- EURO 2004, Rhodes
- IFORS 2005, Hawaii
- EURO 2006, Reykjavik
- EURO 2007, Prague
- IFORS 2008, Sandton
- EURO 2009, Bonn
- EURO 2010, Lisbon
ESICUP also organises autonomous meetings:
- 1st ESICUP Meeting, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany, March 18-20, 2004
- 2nd ESICUP Meeting, Southampton, United Kingdom, April 14-16, 2005
- 3rd ESICUP Meeting, Porto, Portugal, March 16-18, 2006
- 4th ESICUP Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, March 25-27, 2007
- 5th ESICUP Meeting, L'Aquila, Italy, April 20-22, 2008
- 6th ESICUP Meeting, Valencia, Spain, March 25-27, 2009
- 7th ESICUP Meeting, ALIO/INFORMS "Meeting within a meeting", Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 6-9, 2010
A feature issue of EJOR on Cutting and Packing was edited and published:
- J. Oliveira and G. Waescher, EJOR 183 (3) (2007)
Past activities
Meetings
- Cutting and Packing stream, EURO 2003 Conference (Istanbul), organsised by Andrea Lodi and José F. Oliveira
- 1st ESICUP Meeting - 2004 (Lutherstadt Wittenberg), organised by Gerhard Waescher and José F. Oliveira
- 35 presentations, 50 participants
- Cutting and Packing organised sessions, EURO 2004 Conference (Rhodes), organised by José F. Oliveira
- 2nd ESICUP Meeting - 2005 (Southampton), organised by Julia Bennell and José F. Oliveira
- 32 presentations, 48 participants
- Cutting and Packing stream, IFORS 2005 Conference (Hawaii), organised by José F. Oliveira
- 3rd ESICUP Meeting - 2006 (Porto, POrtugal), organized by Eduarda Pinto Ferreira and José Valério de Carvalho
- 33 presentations, 53 participants
- Cluster on Cutting and Packing at EURO 2006 Conference, Iceland, July 2-5, 2006
- 4th ESICUP Meeting - 2007 (Tokyo, Japan), organized by Kokichi Sugihara, Miguel Gomes and José F. Oliveira
- 28 presentations, 30 participants
- Cluster on Cutting and Packing at EURO 2007 Conference, Prague, July 8-11, 2007
- 5th ESICUP Meeting - 2008 (L'Aquila, Italy), organized by Claudio Arbib, Fabrizio Marinelli and Ferdinando Pezzella
- 37 presentations, 57 participants
- Stream on Cutting and Packing at IFORS 2008 Conference, Sandton (South Africa), July 13-18, 2008
- 6th ESICUP Meeting - 2009 (Valencia, Spain), organized by Ramón Alvarez-Valdes, José Manuel Tamarit, Francisco Parreño, José Manuel Belenguer
- 28 presentations, 46 participants
- Stream on Cutting and Packing at EURO 2009 Conference, Bonn (Germany), July 5-8, 2009
Database of publications on C&P organized accordingly to Gerhard Waescher's new typology.
Website
ESICUP website is under constant development and improvement. It offers the following facilities:
- Message board
- Members directory
- Research support
- Data sets
- Problem generators
- Glossary
- ESICUP Meetings Presentations
- C&P Library
Future activities
Meetings
- 7th ESICUP Meeting, Meeting within a Meeting, ALIO/INFORMS 2010, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 6-9, 2010
- Stream at EURO 2010 Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, July 11-14, 2010
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