CLPS 2013 - International Workshop on Collaboration in Logistics, Planning & Services (CLPS 2013)

Traditionally companies have focused on improving their own internal business processes when faced with pressures to operate more efficiently. However, a system-wide focus, e.g., a collaborative focus, opens up cost saving opportunities that are impossible to achieve with an internal company focus. With the availability of timely and accurate information, new collaborative opportunities which create mutual benefits by taking advantage of operational synergies between buyers, sellers, or buyers and sellers are now arising. Collaborative logistics is viewed by many logistics professionals as a promising opportunity for reducing logistics costs and therefore increasing profitability and economic prosperity. Hence there is a need to develop a fundamental knowledge base for designing, analyzing, implementing, and managing such collaborative logistics initiatives.
We are soliciting original papers describing empirical, analytical, and conceptual approaches to these classes of problems on collaborative logistics networks. The emphasis will include support for logistics teamwork and decision making, coordinated and collaborative planning and re-planning, human-centered logistics operations issues, and policy-related questions. All logistics applications are solicited.
Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):
Design and Implementation of Network-based Logistics Solutions
Algorithmic and Analytical Tools for Logistics and Planning
Optimization and Game Theory Applications to Logistics Problems
Logistics in Emergency Management and Response Systems
Supply Chain Management
Modeling and Simulation of Logistics
Multi-function, Multi-national Collaborative Logistics Teams
Shared Awareness (common operating picture) for Dispersed Logistics Processes and Teams
Sense and Respond Logistics (Distributed Adaptive Logistics)
Focused Logistics
RFID in Logistics and Services
Knowledge-Enabled Logistics
Total Asset Visibility
Control of Logistics Pipelines
Automated logistics planning tools for supply sourcing and transportation
Logistics information technology
Logistics in information rich situations
Automated Logistics Systems
Collaborative Planning