Wednesday, May 22, 2024

[DMANET] ATMOS 2024 Call For Papers (2nd announcement)

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ATMOS 2024: 24th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation
Modelling, Optimization, and Systems
Royal Holloway, University of London in Egham
London, UK, September 5-6, 2024
Conference website: https://algo-conference.org/2024/atmos/
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atmos2024
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SCOPE

The 24th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation
Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2024) will be part of ALGO
2024 (https://algo-conference.org/2024/), which will take place at the
Royal Holloway, University of London in Egham, United Kingdom. ATMOS is
scheduled on 5-6 September 2024.

Since 2000, ATMOS brings together researchers and practitioners who are
interested in all aspects of algorithmic methods and models for
transport optimization. The symposium provides a forum for the exchange
and dissemination of new ideas and techniques. The aim of making
transportation better gives rise to very complex and large-scale
optimization problems requiring innovative solution techniques and ideas
from algorithms, mathematical optimization, theoretical computer
science, and operations research.

ATMOS PLENARY TALK

SPEAKER:  Eduardo Uchoa, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil
TITLE:    Exact Algorithms for Vehicle Routing: advances, challenges,
and perspectives
ABSTRACT: The vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is among the most widely
studied problems in operations research and combinatorial optimization.
The current state-of-the-art exact VRP algorithms employ a combination
of column generation and cut separation, known as Branch-Cut-and-Price
(BCP) algorithms. This presentation examines notable recent
contributions made by various researchers in the field. Additionally,
the talk showcases VRPSolver, a very flexible package that implements a
BCP algorithm that achieves outstanding performance for many routing,
packing, and scheduling problems. Furthermore, VRPSolverEasy, a recent
Python application built on top of VRPSolver, is introduced. While
heuristic algorithms are likely to remain the dominant approach for
practical routing, the availability of exact solutions for reasonably
sized instances opens up new possibilities.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline:     Sunday June 30, 2024 (AoE)
Notification to authors: July 31, 2024
Camera ready submission: August 7, 2024
Symposium:               September 5-6, 2024

TOPICS

The symposium welcomes but is not limited to papers addressing the
following topics:

 * Congestion Modelling and Reduction
 * Crew and Duty Scheduling
 * Demand Forecasting
 * Delay Management
 * Design of Pricing Systems
 * Electromobility
 * Infrastructure Planning
 * Intelligent Transportation Systems
 * Models for User Behaviour
 * Line Planning
 * Mobile Applications for Transport
 * Mobility-as-a-Service
 * Multi-modal Transport Optimization
 * Routing and Platform Assignment
 * Route Planning in Road and Public Transit Networks
 * Rostering
 * Timetable Generation
 * Tourist Tour Planning
 * Traffic Guidance
 * Vehicle Routing
 * Vehicle Scheduling

The symposium welcomes but is not limited to papers applying and
advancing the following techniques: Algorithmic Game Theory,
Approximation Algorithms, Combinatorial Optimization, Graph and Network
Algorithms, Heuristics and Meta-heuristics, Mathematical Programming,
Methods for the Integration of Planning Stages, Online and Real-time
Algorithms, Simulation Tools, Stochastic and Robust Optimization.

SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts reporting
original unpublished research in the topics related to the symposium.
Simultaneous submission to other journals or conferences with published
proceedings is not allowed. By submitting a paper the authors
acknowledge that, in case of acceptance, at least one of the authors
will register at ALGO/ATMOS 2024, attend the conference on-site, and
present the paper.

Submissions must be in the form of a single PDF file prepared using the
LaTeX OASIcs style file
(https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publishing/series/details/oasics) and must
be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atmos2024).

ATMOS 2024 accepts two types of submissions, both of which will be
reviewed with the same quality standards by the Program Committee.

(a) REGULAR PAPER SUBMISSIONS: A regular paper submission should clearly
motivate the importance of the problem being addressed, discuss prior
work and its relationship to the paper, explicitly and precisely state
its key contributions, and outline the key technical ideas and methods
used to achieve the main results. A regular paper submission should not
exceed 12 pages including title page and abstract, but excluding
references and an optional appendix. Authors should include all
necessary details in their submission so that the Program Committee can
judge the correctness, importance and originality of their work. Any
material (e.g., proofs or experimental results) omitted (from the main
part of 12 pages) due to space limitations can be put into the optional
appendix, which will be read at the Program Committee's discretion.
Regular papers will be allotted up to 20 pages in the proceedings.

(b) SHORT PAPER SUBMISSIONS: A short paper submission may present
preliminary results or work-in-progress on a specific topic. Authors
should clearly motivate the importance of the problem being addressed,
discuss prior work and its relationship to the paper, explicitly and
precisely state the paper's key contributions, and outline the key
technical ideas and methods used to achieve the main claims. A short
paper submission should have at least 4 and at most 6 pages. Authors
should provide sufficient details in their submission so that the
Program Committee can judge the correctness, importance and originality
of their work. Short papers will be allotted upto 6 pages in the
proceedings.

PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings will be published on the Dagstuhl Open Access Seriesin
Informatics (OASIcs) publication service.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Paul Bouman (co-chair), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
David Coudert, INRIA and Université Côte d'Azur, France
Mattia D'Emidio, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Twan Dollevoet, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Daniele Frigioni, University of Aquila, Italy
Loukas Georgiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Marc Goerigk, University of Passau, Germany
Andrew Goldberg, Amazon, USA
Vera Grafe, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Irene Heinrich, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Spyros Kontogiannis (co-chair), University of Patras, Greece
Jesper Larsen, Technical Universtity of Denmark, Denmark
Niels Lindner, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany
Philine Schiewe, Aalto University, Finland
Sabine Storandt, University of Konstanz, Germany
Rolf van Lieshout, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

STEERING COMMITTEE

Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Marie Schmidt, Universität Würzburg, Germany
Anita Schöbel, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany
Christos Zaroliagis, University of Patras, Greece (Chair)


CONTACT

All questions about submissions should be emailed to the PC co-chairs:

* Paul Bouman: bouman _A T_ ese.eur.nl
* Spyros Kontogiannis: spyridon.kontogiannis _A T_ upatras.gr

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Spyros KONTOGIANNIS
Associate Professor
Computer Engineering & Informatics Department (CEID)
University of Patras, 26504 Rion, GREECE
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URL:https://www.ceid.upatras.gr/webpages/faculty/kontog/
VOICE: +302610996957
EMAIL:spyridon.kontogiannis@upatras.gr
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