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ICCL2022: International Conference on Computational Logistics
2022-09-21 - 2022-09-23
Call for Papers
ICCL2022: International Conference on Computational Logistics
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, September 21-23, 2022
http://eventum.upf.edu/go/ICCL2022
The 12th International Conference on Computational Logistics will be held September 21-23, 2022 at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain (hybrid attendance). In the tradition of the previous conferences, the conference will focus on the theory and applications of operations research, artificial intelligence, and management science to problems in logistics.
The theme of this edition is Logistics for Social Good.
Topics of the conference include among others:
– Operations Research and Management in logistics
– Routing problems
– Emergency logistics
– Reverse logistics
– Crowd logistics
– Freight transportation
– Green supply chain
– Metropolitan/city logistics
– Smart Agro-Logistics
– Uncertainty modeling in planning and control
– Large-scale evolutionary optimization in logistics
– Multi-agent systems in logistics
– Self-organizing logistics
– Internet of things in smart logistics
– Artificial Intelligence in logistics
– Machine learning applications in supply chain
– Last generation ICT networks
– Land and maritime smart logistics
– ICT in logistics
– Computational issues in foreign trade supply chains
– Facility (re-)layout decision problems
– Health and social care logistics
– Humanitarian logistics
– Artificial intelligence and Operations Research in sustainable logistics
Important Dates:
– May 20, 2022: Submission deadline full papers (conference proceedings)
– June 6, 2022: Submission deadline abstracts for presentation only
– July 4, 2022: Notifications of acceptance (for both full papers and abstracts)
– July 14, 2022: Deadline for submission camera-ready paper
– August 1, 2022: End of registration for presenters
– September 2, 2022: End of registration for participants
Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and be provided in the following forms:
– Full papers for publication in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
– Extended abstracts for presentation only.
Furthermore, a selection of papers will be invited for a special issue in a scientific journal (to be announced).
Mail conference: iccl2022@upf.edu
Conference Chairs:
– Jésica de Armas (jesica.dearmas@upf.edu)
– Helena Ramalhinho (helena.ramalhinho@upf.edu)
– Stefan Voß (stefan.voss@uni-hamburg.de)

ODS2022
2022-08-30 - 2022-09-02
We are glad to announce that the organization of ODS2022 (Optimization and Decision Science conference, Florence, August 30th-September 2nd, 2022) is proceeding.
All the relevant information is regularly updated on the web site. Here we summarize some of the most relevant news:

The call for the proposal of invited session is open. An invited session is composed of 4 or 5 talks on a specific theme. A form has been prepared for session proposals. We invite you to contact 4/5 interested speakers on a specific theme and to propose a session within a specific topic
Abstract and paper submission is now open, through the Springer OCS system
We are happy to announce that
– Prof. Anna Nagurney (Univ. Massachusetts, Amherst)
– Prof. Maria Paola Scaparra (University of Kent)
– Prof. Dimitri Bertsimas (MIT, Boston)
– Prof. Dick den Hertog (Unv. Amsterdam) – EURO plenary speaker
accepted to participate in person as keynote speakers.
As of now, we are planning (and hoping) for a fully in person conference, with no streaming

We hope to see you, in person, in Florence,
the ODS2022 organizing committee
Fabio Schoen & Paola Cappanera (co-chairs)

VeRoLog 2022
2022-06-12 - 2022-06-15
The eight meeting of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization will be jointly hosted by the Kühne Logistics University and the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany, June 12-15, 2022.
Further information can be found here.

ISCO 2022
2022-05-18 - 2022-05-20
ISCO 2022, SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS:
ISCO (International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization) is a biennial symposium whose aim is to bring together researchers from all the communities related to combinatorial optimization, including algorithms and complexity, mathematical programming, operations research, optimization under uncertainty, graphs and combinatorics. It is intended to be a forum for presenting original research in these areas and especially in their intersections. Quality papers on all aspects of combinatorial optimization, from mathematical foundations and theory of algorithms to computational studies and practical applications, are solicited.
ISCO 2022 will be held online (May 18-20, 2022) and will be preceded by a Spring School (May 16-17, 2022) given by Giacomo Nannicini on “Mathematical Optimization and Quantum Algorithms” which is dedicated to PhD students but the lectures are also open to other colleagues.
Conference website: https://isco2022.sciencesconf.org/
SUBMISSIONS and PUBLICATIONS:
There are two types of submissions:
– Regular papers up to 12 pages. The post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer (LNCS series). For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, it should be presented at the conference by one of the authors. The authors of accepted papers will have to prepare their camera-ready version two weeks after the end of the conference. More information about the submission procedure will be available in the web site of the conference in due time.
– Extended abstracts up to 3 pages. Accepted abstracts will be published online on the conference website (and will not be included in the post-conference proceedings).
SUBMISSION PROCESS IS OPEN NOW: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isco20220
IMPORTANT DATES:
– Submission deadline: February 15, 2022 (regular papers) and March 31, 2022 (extended abstracts)
– Notifications: April 20, 2022
– Registration deadline: May 10, 2022
– Spring school: May 16-17, 2022
– Online conference: May 18-20, 2022
TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to:
Approximation algorithms
Branch-and-bound algorithms
Branch-and-cut-and price algorithms
Computational biology
Computational complexity
Computational geometry
Constraint Programming
Cutting plane algorithms
Exact and parameterized algorithms
Graph and network algorithms
Interior point methods
Linear and nonlinear integer programming
Local search algorithm
Metaheuristic
Multiobjective optimization
On-line algorithms
Polyhedral combinatorics
Randomized algorithms
Scheduling algorithms
PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Jon Lee, University of Michigan, USA
Petra Mutzel, Bonn University, Germany
Rekha R. Thomas, University of Washington, USA
Rico Zenklusen, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
CONFERENCE CHAIRS:
Ivana Ljubic, conference chair (ESSEC Business School of Paris, France)
Francisco Barahona, co-chair (IBM, J. Watson, New York, USA)
Santanu Dey, co-chair (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
A. Ridha Mahjoub, co-chair (Paris Dauphine University, France)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE: https://isco2022.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/2
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
P. Fouilhoux (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France)
I. Ljubic (ESSEC Business School of Paris, France)
A. Ridha Majhoub (Paris Dauphine University, France)
STEERING COMMITTEE:
M. Baïou (CNRS, Clermont-Auvergne University, France)
P. Fouilhoux (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France)
L. Gouveia (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
N. Maculan (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
A. R. Mahjoub (Paris Dauphine University, France)
V. Paschos (Paris Dauphine University, France)
G. Rinaldi (IASI, Roma, Italy)

ALIO/EURO International Conference 2021 on Applied Combinatorial Optimization
2021-11-29 - 2021-12-01
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS – ALIO/EURO 2021
Xth Joint ALIO/EURO International Conference 2021 on Applied Combinatorial Optimization
November 29 to December 1, 2021
Viña del Mar, Chile
https://www.alioeuro2021.cl
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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
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The Joint ALIO/EURO International Conference on Applied Combinatorial Optimization is a triennial event jointly promoted by the Association of Latin-Iberoamerican Operational Research Societies (ALIO) and the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO), both of which are within the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS). The main purpose of the event is to bring together Latin American and European researchers and to stimulate activities and discussions about methods and applications in combinatorial optimization. Researchers from other parts of the world are also welcome.
The last editions of the Joint ALIO/EURO International Conference on Applied Combinatorial Optimization were held in Bologna, Italy (2018), Montevideo, Uruguay (2014), Porto, Portugal (2011), and Buenos Aires, Argentina (2008).
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SCOPE AND TOPICS
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Contributions dealing with any aspect of Applied Combinatorial Optimization are welcome. This includes theoretical achievements, algorithm development, and real-world implementations. Main topics of this workshop are, among others: Applications of Combinatorial Optimization, Approximation algorithms, Bioinformatics, Branch-and-cut-and-price algorithms, Computational complexity, Emerging applications of OR, Energy planning, Graph theory, Heuristics and metaheuristics, Hybrid methods, Integer programming, Natural resource management, Network design and analysis, OR for sustainability, Production planning, Telecommunications, Transportation and Logistics.
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PLENARY LECTURES
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ALIO Plenary Speaker: Nicolas Stier-Moses, Facebook Core Data Science
EURO Plenary Speaker: Markus Leitner, VU Amsterdam
Invited Plenary Speaker: Javiera Barrera, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for Submission: May 1, 2021
Notification of acceptance: July 2021
Camera Ready: September 2021
Conference: November 29 to December 1, 2021
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PROCEEDINGS & SPECIAL ISSUES
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The authors are invited to submit their papers describing original, previously unpublished research results and not currently under review. There are two types of submissions: full papers (4-6 pages using the two-column ACM sigconf template) and extended abstracts (1-2 pages, free template). Accepted short papers will be published in open access at openproceedings.org, with an assigned DOI and indexed in DBLP.
The submission process must be completed electronically through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alioeuro2021).
For more information, please check the ALIO/EURO 2021 website at https://alioeuro2021.cl/submissions/
There will be a Feature Cluster in European Journal of Operational Research dedicated to “Recent Advances in Applied Combinatorial Optimization”. We invite participants to submit papers corresponding to works presented at the conference. Submissions will be open immediately after the conference (January 2022).
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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Alejandro Mac Cawley (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile)
Alexandre Salles Da Cunha (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Annegret Wagler (Université Clermont Auvergne, France)
Antonio Mauttone (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)
Armin Lüer-Villagra (Universidad Andres Bello, Chile)
Bernard Gendron (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Claudia Archetti (ESSEC Business School, Italy)
Daniel Severín (Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina)
Diego Delle Donne (ESSEC Business School of Paris, France)
Eduardo Alvarez-Miranda (Universidad de Talca, Chile)
Federica Ricca (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)
Felipe Feijoo (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile)
Fernando Ordoñez (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama (Universidad de Lisboa , Portugal)
Gilbert Laporte (HEC Montréal, Canada)
Isabel Méndez-Díaz (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Ivan Contreras (Concordia University, Canada)
Ivana Ljubic (ESSEC Business School, France)
Ivo Koch (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina)
Jordi Pereira (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile)
Jorge Vera (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile)
José Fernando Oliveira (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Juan Antonio Díaz (Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico)
Juan José Miranda Bront (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina)
Luciana Salete Buriol (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Luis Gouveia (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Luis Miguel Torres (Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador)
Manoel Campêlo (Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil)
Maria Albareda (Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
María Laura Schuverdt (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
Marielle Christiansen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Martine Labbé (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Mathias Klapp (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile)
Óscar C. Vásquez (Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile)
Paolo Toth (Università di Bologna, Italy)
Ricardo Cordeiro Corrêa (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Rodrigo Carrasco (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile)
Roger Ríos-Mercado (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León , Mexico)
Rosa Gonzalez (Universidad de los Andes, Chile)
Rosiane de Freitas Rodrigues (Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil)
Sebastian Maldonado (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
Victor Albornoz (Universidad Santa Maria, Chile)
Victor Blanco (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
Vladimir Marianov (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile)
Wilfredo Yushimito (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile)
Yolanda Hinojosa (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Eduardo Moreno (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile), Chair
Elena Fernández (Universidad de Cádiz, Spain), EURO Co-Chair
Javier Marenco (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina), ALIO Co-Chair

Workshop on Urban Mobility Simulation and Optimization
2021-11-16 08:30 - 12:45 UTC
Please join us for the YouTube Livestream
on November 16, 8:30am – 12:45pm PT

Organized by: Carolina Osorio, Neha Arora, and Google University Relations
Further information can be found here.

ICCL2021: International Conference on Computational Logistics
2021-09-26 - 2021-09-29
Call for Papers
ICCL2021: International Conference on Computational Logistics
University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, September 26-29, 2021, conference website
The 12th International Conference on Computational Logistics will be held September 26-29, 2021 at the University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands (possibly virtually). In the tradition of the previous conferences, the conference will focus on the theory and applications of operations research, artificial intelligence, and management science to problems in logistics. The theme of this edition is Artificial Intelligence for Logistics Management.
Topics of the conference include among others:
– Operations Research and Management in logistics
– Routing problems
– Emergency logistics
– Reverse logistics
– Crowd logistics
– Freight transportation
– Green supply chain
– Metropolitan/city logistics
– Smart Agro-Logistics
– Uncertainty modeling in planning and control
– Large-scale evolutionary optimization in logistics
– Multi-agent systems in logistics
– Self-organizing logistics
– Internet of things in smart logistics
– Artificial Intelligence in logistics
– Machine learning applications in supply chain
– Last generation ICT networks
– Land and maritime smart logistics
– ICT in logistics
– Computational issues in foreign trade supply chains
– Facility (re-)layout decision problems
Important Dates:
– May 28, 2021: Submission deadline full papers (conference proceedings)
– June 18, 2021: Submission deadline abstracts for presentation only
– July 2, 2021: Notifications of acceptance (for both full papers and abstracts)
– July 16, 2021: Deadline for submission camera-ready paper
– August 6, 2021: End of registration for presenters
– September 10, 2021: End of registration for participants
Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and be provided in the following forms:
– Full papers for publication in Springers Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
– Extended abstracts for presentation only.
Furthermore, a selection of papers will be invited for a special issue in a scientific journal (to be announced).
Conference Chairs:
– Martijn Mes (m.r.k.mes@utwente.nl)
– Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz (e.a.lalla@utwente.nl)
– Stefan Voss (stefan.voss@uni-hamburg.de)

31st European Conference on Operational Research
2021-07-11 - 2021-07-14
Further information can be found here.

MESS 2020+1 - Metaheuristics Summer School
2021-06-15 - 2021-06-18
Call for Participation
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– MESS 2020+1 – Metaheuristics Summer School
– Learning & Optimization from Big Data –
15-18 June 2021, Catania, Italy
(virtual and onsite mode)
https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2020/
mess.school@ANTs-lab.it
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/
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** APPLICATION DEADLINE: 5th March 2021 **
https://www.ants-lab.it/mess2020/application/
MESS 2020+1 is aimed at qualified and strongly motivated MSc and PhD students; post-docs; young researchers, and both academic and industrial professionals to provide an overview on the several metaheuristics techniques, and an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art. The main theme of this edition is “Learning and Optimization from Big Data”, therefore MESS 2020+1 wants to focus on (i) Learning for Metaheuristics; (ii) Optimization in Machine Learning; and (iii) how Optimization and Learning affect the Metaheuristics making them relevant in handling Big Data.
Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance indicating the number of hours of lectures (36-40 hours of lectures). In according to the academic system all PhD and master students attending to the summer school will may get 8 ECTS points.
** LIST OF LECTURERS & LECTURES TITLES
+ Paolo Arena, Unviersity of Catania, Italy
Lecture#1: TBA
Lecture#2: TBA
+ Angelo Cangelosi, University of Manchester & Alan Turing Institute, UK
Lecture#1: Cognitive and Developmental Robotics, part 1
Lecture#2: Cognitive and Developmental Robotics, part 2
+ Swagatam Das, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Lecture#1: Deep Generative Adversarial Networks and Their Application to Class-imbalanced Learning
Lecture#2: Non-convex Constrained Optimization – Some Advanced Approaches
+ Luca Maria Gambardella, IDSIA Istituto Dalle Molle for Artificial Intelligence, Switzerland
Lecture#1: TBA
Lecture#2: TBA
+ Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy & University of Portsmouth, UK
Lecture#1: Preference Learning in Multicriteria Decision Support
Lecture#2: Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Guided by Preference Learning
+ Giuseppe F. Italiano, Luiss University, Italy
Lecture#1: TBA
Lecture#2: TBA
+ Andrea Lodi, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
Lecture#1: TBA
Lecture#2: TBA
+ Rafael Martì, University of Valencia, Spain
Lecture#1: Optimization in Graph Drawing
Lecture#2: Models and Heuristics in Discrete Diversity Maximization
+ Gabriela Ochoa, University of Stirling, UK
Lecture#1: Fitness Landscape Analysis
Lecture#2: Complex Networks in Search and Optimisation
+ Mauricio Resende, AMAZON, USA
Lecture#1: GRASP with Path-Relinking for Real-World Optimization Problems
Lecture#2: Biased Random-Key Genetic Algorithms with Applications
+ El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille 1, France
Lecture#1: Machine learning for metaheuristics
Lecture#2: Automated design of deep neural networks
+ Daniele Vigo, University of Bologna, Italy
Lecture#1: Fast and scalable heuristics for vehicle routing problems
Lecture#2: Integrating machine learning into vehicle routing heuristics
** METAHEURISTICS COMPETITION
All participants to the school will be involved in the “Metaheuristics Competition”, where each of them will must develop a metaheuristic solution on the given problem. The top three of the competition ranking will receive the MESS 2020+1 prize. Students whose algorithm will rank in the top ten of the competition ranking will be invited to submit a manuscript of their work to be published in the special volume MESS 2020+1 of the AIRO Springer Series.
** SHORT TALK & POSTER PRESENTATION
All participants may submit an abstract of their recent results, or works in progress, for presentation and having the opportunities for debate and interact with leaders in the field. Mini-Workshop Organizers and Scientific Committee will review the abstracts and will recommend for the format of the presentation (oral or poster). All abstracts will be published on the electronic hands-out book of the summer school.
The Abstracts must be submitted by *March 5, 2020*.
*See Previous Edition – MESS 2018*
https://www.ants-lab.it/mess2018/
** MORE INFORMATION:
https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mess2020/ — mess.school@ANTs-lab.it
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MetaheuristicsSchool/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MESS_school

VeRoLog webinar (with Juan José Salazar González and Grazia Speranza)
2021-05-27 16:00 - 17:30
Plenary talk: “Split-demand vehicle routing problem: state of the art“
Juan José Salazar González (Universidad de La Laguna)
Followed by an interview with
Grazia Speranza (Università degli Studi di Brescia)
Further information can be found here.

First VeRoLog webinar (with VeRoLog coordinator Daniele Vigo and the organizing committee)
2021-04-29 16:00 - 17:30
Join us for the plenary of VeRoLog coordinator Daniele Vigo on “Integrating Machine Learning into state-of-the-art Vehicle Routing Heuristics” and meet the webinar organizing committee to learn about this new webinar series.
Further information can be found here.

1-week intensive online PhD course in Stochastic Programming
2021-04-19 - 2021-04-23
Cluster for Operations Research, Analytics, and Logistics (CORAL) at Aarhus BSS has the pleasure of announcing a PhD course in Stochastic Programming, which will take place online, 19-23 April 2021.
Lecturer will be Professor Walter Rei, Department of Management and Technology, University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).
The general objectives of the course are:

To introduce students to the overall approach that is used to formulate an optimization problem that involves uncertainty as a stochastic program. This approach entails, identifying the specific problems for which stochastic programming is an appropriate method to apply, modelling feasibility and the dynamics of the problem and formulating the objective function.
To present the main specialized solution methods that have been developed to solve stochastic programs. Specifically, a review of the principal exact solution methods and heuristic algorithms will be provided. The focus here will be to present how more efficient solution processes can be obtained by applying a series of tailored strategies, i.e., scenario generation, mathematical decomposition, heuristic search principles, etc.

Professor Sanne Wøhlk from CORAL is the academic organiser, so please feel free to contact her if you have any questions regarding the contents of the course.
Please see the website for more information and registration: DGPE PhD course: Introduction to Stochastic Programming (au.dk)
