Modeling & Simulation in Logistics, Traffic and Transportation

Call For Papers

Modelling & Simulation in Logistics,

Traffic and Transportation

Track at the International Workshop on Harbour, Maritime & Multimodal Logistics Modelling and Simulation

(HMS 2008)

Track Chairs: Massimo Tronci, Francesco Costantino, Giulio Di Gravio

Affiliation: University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy

Contacts:

massimo.tronci@uniroma1.it

francesco.costantino@uniroma1.it

giulio.digravio@uniroma1.it

Track Description

The track is devoted to offer researchers and practitioners the opportunity to present, discuss and learn about the latest achievements on Modelling & Simulation in Logistics, Traffic and Transportation, encouraging international collaborative research and demonstrations of current innovative projects. Topics covered include but are not limited to:

· Strategies and concepts for logistics

· Technical and organizations planning of logistics systems

· Supply chains and logistics network design

· Physical distribution and facility location

· Distribution centres and warehousing decisions

· Outbound and inbound logistics

· Transportation management and logistics

· Information management in logistics systems

· Traffic flows demand, control and performance

· Multi-modal systems

· Reverse and green logistics

Nevertheless different topics concerning Modelling & Simulation in Logistics, Traffic and Transportation are welcome. Authors are kindly invited to include in their papers and presentations all the research works, case studies and application both theoretical and applied.

Key Dates

Submissions of Extended Abstracts (extension) May 5, 2008

Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2008

Early Registration: June 10, 2008

Final Camera-Ready Submission (extension) June 24, 2008

Authors' Guidelines (further information author’s instruction section)

FIRST SUBMISSION

Extended abstracts (minimum 2 pages), full draft papers or other proposals should be submitted for the review process through the submission section by May 5, 2008.

The extended abstract or the full draft paper must contain title, authors, affiliations, addresses, main body and references.

Each extended abstract or full draft paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the International Program Committee taking into consideration scientific quality, originality and relevance. Only original papers, written in English will be accepted.

The extended abstract or the full draft paper should be prepared by following the final paper formatting. However any type of paper formatting can be accepted for the first submission.

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE

Notification of acceptance will be sent by May 20, 2008.

CAMERA READY PAPER SUBMISSION

The International Program Committee will accept two types of camera ready papers: extended paper (10 pages, 2 columns); regular paper (6 pages, 2 columns) both for regular and special sessions.

The camera ready paper must adhere to the conference template. The .dot file contains the complete instructions for preparing a camera ready copy for the Proceedings. The final version of the paper must be a PDF file.

Your camera ready paper (extended paper or regular paper) in PDF format must be submitted by using the submission section before the 24^th of June 2008.

The page limit for manuscripts is ten (10) pages (included in the author registration fee). Additional pages will require an additional fee.

If your work must be cleared or approved before publication by your institution, company, or governmental agency, please be sure that process will be completed by the due date above or we will not be able to include it in the CD Conference Proceedings.