Logistics and Manufacturing

Call For Papers

Logistics & Manufacturing

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

(HMS 2008)

Track Chair: Istvan Molnar

Affiliation: Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania , USA

Contacts: Molnar01@aol.com

Track Description

The goal of the track is to bring together modeling and simulation researchers and practitioners to exchange experiences, research results and ideas. This goal will be achieved with paper and poster presentations, discussions and a LabView workshop, among others. The aim is to cover any part of the supply chain at any level of aggregation or abstraction with state-of-the-art theoretical results, applications and software solutions.

Contributions from the broader field of logistics and manufacturing are welcome, included but not restricted to:

· Real-time simulation and control of logistics and manufacturing processes, Embedded intelligent control systems

· Modeling and simulation of robotics and automation processes,

· CAD, CAM, and CIM

· Use of ERP/MRP Systems for modeling and simulation

· Modeling and simulation of virtual manufacturing, virtual factories, virtual enterprises

· Workflow modeling and simulation

· Modeling and simulation of transportation, material handling, and warehouse operations

· Supply chain modeling and simulation

· Modeling methods, architectures and standards

· Simulation software tools, IDE-s, Simulation frameworks, software integration

· Distributed simulation approaches; use of web-based simulation, grid technology, and SOA

· Applied queuing systems, queuing networks and scheduling models; theoretical and practical approaches

· Simulation optimization

· Best practice applications

Nevertheless different topics concerning Logistics and Manufacturing are welcome.

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.