ImViReLL 2014 - 2nd Conference on The Impact of Virtual, Remote and Real Logistics Labs

Logistics research has seen a technology push over the last years. Established material handling technologies have been complemented by ubiquitous technologies such as Auto-ID, Sensors and decentralized processing capabilities. The technical complexity is still growing, thus leading to a situation where businesses are sometimes overstrained by the possible potentials on the one hand and unclear benefits on the other.
Logistics labs promise to overcome this gap ? in applied research as well as in education ? and serve as a place for hands-on experience. On the one hand, the concrete forms of experiments, testing and development possibilities are numerous, but on the other hand, the efforts for establishing a lab and keeping it vital are huge. The goal of the conference is to focus on lab-based research and education, evaluate their impact in research and education and investigate specific demands, opportunities and challenges.
ImViReLL 2014 provides a venue for researchers from academia and industry interested in future-oriented logistics labs as a nucleus for innovation. The conference addresses research in logistics from a wide range of fields, e.g. retail, engineering, computer science, distributed education and collaborative research.
This academic conference will be held in combination (parallel sessions) with the 4th International conference on Dynamics in Logistics (LDIC’2014, http://www.ldic-conference.org/) ? registration will allow access to both conferences! The conference will take place between February 10th and 14th, 2014 in Bremen, Germany.
Objective of the ConferenceThe goal of the conference is to evaluate the impact of lab-based research in logistics. The following topics should be considered:
lab-based:
technology and feasibility studies
pilots and demonstrators
inter-/multi-disciplinary research
innovation
lab-centric:
logistics research in different industries (e.g. retail, automotive, aviation, …)
specifics of logistic labs
synergies with labs in other research disciplines (e.g. electrical engineering)
virtual research environments and communities
remote research environments and virtualisation
real research environments
co-developments, co-publications and intellectual property rights
living-labs in logistics and end-user involvement
complexities of creating, using, maintaining and growing lab-infrastructures
business models and sustainability concepts for research labs
technology-centric:
the role of RFID, sensors, actuators, robots, intelligent material handling
the role of do-it-yourself kits such as Arduino or RasPi
(de-) centralised data-processing in logistic labs
data sharing
the role of the Internet of Things, the Future Internet, Industry 4.0, Cloud Computing and Big Data for logistic labs
architecture developments and standards for multiple (networked) demonstrators and experiments
social networking technology in research
human interfaces
impact on:
applied research in logistics
research quality and collaboration
business innovation and innovation marketing
society (incl. e.g., opportunities of access to remote and virtual labs for developing countries)
educational implications:
e-, m- and virtual learning environments
interdisciplinary and cross-cultural education in engineering
teaching experience and quality
structures of supervision processes in distributed lab-oriented PhD research
Submission
Papers submitted to the conference must contain original research and should not exceed twelve pages. Papers must be provided in MS Word format. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has already been published elsewhere is not allowed.
All accepted full papers will be published in the Springer Conference Proceedings. See the corresponding Springer layout guidelines (CCIS/LNCS) for further layout / style informations. We would especially like to encourage live (remote) demonstrations as well as video contributions during the conference to illustrate lab-based research.
Key Dates
Submission of papers: October 15, 2013
Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2013
Camera ready versions due: January 9, 2014
Main conference: February 11 ? 13, 2014
Conference with satellite events: February 10 ? 14, 2014
Committees
Conference Chairs
Dieter Uckelmann, Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart, Germany
Ingrid Rügge, International Graduate School for Dynamics in Logistics, University of Bremen, Germany
Marco Lewandowski, LogDynamics Lab, University of Bremen, Germany
Klaus-Dieter Thoben, BIBA ? Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH, Germany
Hans-Dietrich Haasis, ISL ? Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics, Germany
Scientific Committee
Gisele Bennett, Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory, Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA
Shing-Chi Cheung, RFID Center, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Volker Coors, HFT Stuttgart, Germany
Javier García-Zubia, Deusto Institute of Technology, Spain
Willibald Günthner, TU Munich, Germany
Bill C. Hardgrave, Auburn University, USA
Vaggelis Giannikas, ifm, University of Cambridge
Bonghee Hong, Institute of Logistics Information Technology (LIT), Pusan National University, Korea
Gerrit Kahl, Ubiquitous Media Technology Lab (UMTL), Germany
Reza Karimi, University of Agder, Norway
Michael Lawo, University of Bremen, Germany
Yu Liu, RFID Lab, Chinese Academy of Science (CASIA), Beijing, China
Florian Michahelles, Siemens, Berkley, USA
Justin Patton, University of Arkansas RFID Research Center, USA
Alexander Pflaum, University of Bamberg, Germany
Antonio Rizzi, RFid Lab, University of Parma, Italy
Michael Schenk, Fraunhofer-Institut für Fabrikbetrieb und -automatisierung IFF, Magdeburg, Germany
Alp Üstündağ, ITU Institute of Science and Technology, Turkey
Local Organisation
Marco Lewandowski, LogDynamics Lab, University of Bremen, Germany
Aleksandra Himstedt, University of Bremen, Germany