[DMANET] Call for participation: LOT - In memory of Professor Arne Løkketangen

Second call for participation

LOT - Logistics, Optimization, and Transportation
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Molde University College, Molde, Norway
September 1.-2., 2014

LOT is a special EU/MEeting in memory of Professor Arne Løkketangen.

The meeting is open to contributions on both methodological advances and real-world applications within logistics and transportation. Participation is based on submitting a short abstract, limited to 1500 characters. A list of relevant topics for LOT includes, but is not limited to:

- TSP and all variants
- VRP and all variants
- Combining inventory and transportation
- Multi-modal transportation
- Combining manufacturing and transportation
- Transportation Choice Modeling
- Stochastic Programming
- Meta-heuristics
- Matheuristics
- Exact Methods

Invited speakers:
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Professor Michel Gendreau, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Canada,
Professor Odd I. Larsen, Molde University College, Molde, Norway,
Professor Stefan Voss, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

Important dates:
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Submission of abstract: April 1, 2014
Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2014
Early registration deadline: June 15, 2014
Late registration deadline: August 1, 2014
Get-together event: August 31, 2014
Conference dates: September 1-2, 2014

For submitting an abstract, please use the following address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lot2014

A post conference special issue is planned, with full papers to be submitted before December 31. 2014

Conference fees:
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The conference fee will be NOK 1500 for early registration, and NOK 2500 for late registration.
PhD students can register for free, with a confirmation letter from the supervisor or the institution.

Webpage:
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http://kursinfo.himolde.no/forskningsgrupper/optimering/LOT2014/index.htm

Organizing committee:
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Svein Bråthen
Arild Hoff
Halvard Arntzen
Johan Oppen
Urooj Pasha
Jianyong Jin
Jorge Oyola
Brice Assimizele

Scientific committee:
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Lars M. Hvattum
Marielle Christiansen
Odd I. Larsen
Arild Hoff
Geir Hasle
David L. Woodruff

Best regards
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Arild Hoff
Associate Professor
Program Coordinator, Master programs in Logistics
Molde University College
P.O.Box 2110, 6402 Molde, Norway
Phone: +47 71 21 42 02
Mob. +47 91 13 14 10
E-mail: arild.hoff@himolde.no
http://home.himolde.no/~arildh/



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