SELP 2013 - SELP: Special Session on Scalable Evolutionary Logistic Planning

SELP, the Special Session on Scalable Evolutionary Logistic Planning of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems (CIPLS 2013), part of the 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2013), invites the submission of original and unpublished research papers.

Logistics comprises all management, scheduling, and routing governing the transportation of objects or resources from one point to another. In a modern economy, it is one of the most important services for business, the industry, and the public alike. Vehicles such as trucks, trains, ships, airplanes, and even bikes together transport billions of tons of parcel. Improving the efficiency of logistics is therefore a major concern, both from economical as well as environmental aspects. Many of the optimization problems arising in this area are NP-hard and therefore often intractable for exact solution approaches. Here, Computational Intelligence techniques have proven to be powerful alternatives. Today, especially large-scale logistic planning problems, involving many vehicles or logistic tasks, move into the focus of research. The high runtime requirement for solving them demands for new approaches to improve the scalability of evolutionary optimization methods.

This special session will provide a common forum to exchange ideas and findings for researchers and practitioners who are interested in solving large-scale logistic planning problems with Evolutionary Algorithms, Swarm Intelligence methods, and CI approaches in general. All accepted papers in this session will be included in the Proceedings of the IEEE CIPLS 2013 published by IEEE Press and indexed by EI. Extended versions of selected papers will be further considered for publication in reputable journals.

Topics of Interest:

The main theme of SELP is solving large-scale logistics and transportation problems with Evolutionary Algorithms. The topics of interest therefore include, but are not limited to combinations of:

Scaling Approaches:
Special algorithm designs
Memetic and Hybridization methods
Developmental Genotype-Phenotype Mappings
Self-Organization Approaches
Parallelization
Distribution
Cooperative Coevolution
Evolutionary Algorithms in the Cloud
Generative Genotype-Phenotype Mappings
Multi-Agent Systems

Logistic Planning Problems:
Travelling Salesman Problems (TSPs)
Arc Routing Problems (ARPs)
Vehicle Routing Problems (VRP)
Real-World Problems and Applications
Packing Problems in relationship with Logistics and Transportation
Scheduling for Transportation
Robotics or Team-based Logistics
Environmental Aspects of Logistics and Transportation
Multi-Location Inventory Systems
Intra-Warehouse Logistics
Rules or Neural Networks for Self-Organized Transportation

Algorithms (in conjunction with the above):
Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) such as Genetic Algorithms (GAs), Genetic Programming (GP), Evolution Strategies (ES), and Evolutionary Programming (EP)
Memetic Algorithms (MAs) and hybrid EAs
Differential Evolution (DE)
Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs)
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)
Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)
Related Metaheuristics
Other Computational Intelligence (CI) approaches
Instructions for Authors:

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than eight pages in IEEE double-column conference style, including results, figures and references, with a maximum file size of 4MB, in PDF format. More information regarding the submission process can be found at the conference website http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/epnsugan/index_files/SS....

The papers are to be submitted via the official conference website submission form where \"Special Session on Scalable Evolutionary Logistic Planning\" should be selected as first research topic. (CIPLS will be #21 in the list of topics and our Special Session will appear just below it.)

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Deadline: 10 OCTOBER 2012
Notification of Acceptance: 05 JANUARY 2013
Camera-Ready Copy Due: 05 FEBRUARY 2013
Early Registration: 05 FEBRUARY 2013
Conference Presentation: 15-19 APRIL 2013
Website: http://www.it-weise.de/documents/files/selp13/
For more information please contact Thomas Weise at tweise-AT-ustc.edu.cn.