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

Final 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 200 words. 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 will appear in Annals of Operations Research, with full papers to be submitted before December 31. 2014. All papers submitted to the special issue will be rigorously refereed by experts selected by the editors.

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


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