Operational Research and Industrial Engineering Symposium

[Alexandre Dolgui <dolgui@emse.fr>]

2nd
Announcement and Call for Papers

Deadline for paper submission is 15th of November 2005:
this is final submission date, no further extensions will be granted.

Operational Research and Industrial Engineering Symposium 
The 12th IFAC Triennial Symposium INCOM’06, May 17-19, 2006
Saint Etienne, France, http://www.emse.fr/incom06/call_for_papers.html

Main sponsors: French Operational Research Society (ROADEF), EURO, IFORS, 
IFAC, IFIP, IEEE, IMS and several European scientific networks 

Special Tracks on advance methods of Operational Research:

- Metaheuristics and Soft Computing in Industrial Applications
(chairs: A. Jaszkiewicz, P. Siarry, E. Taillard, E-G. Talbi, J. Teghem)

- Scheduling for Modern Manufacturing, Logistics and Supply Chains 
(chairs: G. Finke, V. Strusevich, F. Werner)

- Supply Networks Design and Management
(chairs: O. Brien, P. Burlat, A. Villa)

- Combinatorial optimisation for production systems design
(chairs: R. Askin, A. Dolgui, A. Scholl, JM Proth)

- Novel Models and Approaches for Semiconductor Manufacturing
(chairs: S. Dauzère-Pérès, MuDer Jeng, S. Sarin)

- Transportation and Logistics
(chairs: A. Schöbel, A. El Moudni)

Special sessions:
- Cyclic Scheduling
(Chairs: R. Dupas, Y. Crama, G. Goncalves)

- Scheduling under uncertainty
(chairs: Carl Esswein, Eric Sanlaville, Francis Sourd)

- Dynamic Lot Sizing
(Chairs: S. Dauzère-Pérès, N. Brahimi, N. Najid)

- Simulation in Logistics
(Chairs: Y. Merkuryev, F. Grimaud)

- Value-Chain Optimisation using Constraint Programming
(chairs: K. N. Brown, E.C. Freuder, B. O'Sullivan, S. A. Tarim) 

- Supply Chains in Aeronautic Industry
(chairs: A. Ramudhin, H. Artiba)

- Inventory Control
(chairs: Y. Frein, J-C Hennet)

- Revenue Management & Dynamic Pricing
(chairs: Y. Levin, J. McGill, M. Nediak)

- Locational analysis
(chairs: F. Plastria, A. Kolokolov)

for more details, see http://www.emse.fr/incom06/program.html
 
- Already there are scientists from 35 countries are participating. 

- IFAC journals and 8 OR international journals are associated with the symposium for post-conference publications (selected regular in regular issues and Special Issues). 
More that 200 industrial representatives are already confirmed their participation in INCOM06.
http://www.emse.fr/incom06/publication.html

We are looking forward to some interesting professional exchanges in Saint Etienne in May 2006.

Yours sincerely,
Alexandre Dolgui
General Scientific Chair of INCOM’06

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Alexandre Dolgui, Ph.D., Dr. Hab.
Professor
Director, Division for Industrial Engineering and Computer Sciences
Head, Scientific Methods for Industrial Management Department
Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne
158, Cours Fauriel, 42023 Saint Etienne cedex 2, France
Fax: +33 (0)4.77.42.66.66
E-mail: dolgui@emse.fr
URL: www.emse.fr/~dolgui

17, 18, 19 May 2006
12th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing
dedicated to the 190-th anniversary of Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne

for more information, see: www.emse.fr/incom06
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