Subject: 3rd International Workshop on ADVANCED TECHNIQUES IN PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL

From: Marco Taisch <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 18:47:50 +0100

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPER

After the successfull event of Ascona (Switzwerland, 1997) 
and Hannover (Germany, 1999), we are pleased to announce the 

3° International Workshop of the
IFIP WG5.7 SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG) on
ADVANCED TECHNIQUES IN PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL

24-25 February 2000 
Florence, Italy

OBJECTIVE OF THE SIG

The purposes of the SIG is to exchange know-how and stimulate advances in
high-level techniques applied to the production management domain, with the
following specific goals: 
- to exchange experiences on the use of these techniques; 
- to improve the understanding of the effectiveness of each technique in
solving specific problems within the domain of production management; 
- to find new approaches to the solution of traditional PP&C problems thanks
to the new potentialities offered by these advanced modelling techniques; 
- to develop knowledge on hybrid approaches using different techniques to
solve PP&C problems. 
In order to give diffusion of the results of the SIG, they are also
published as for example has been done for the Special Issue on of the Int.
J. of Production Planning & Control (Vol. 10, No.4).

AREAS OF INTEREST

The workshop invites submissions related to

THE APPLICATION OF ADVANCED TECHNIQUES as
(the lists are not exhaustive, but just give examples)

     Autonomous Agent Theory
     Artificial Neural Networks
     Genetic Algorithms
     Chaos Theory
     Fuzzy Logic
     Automatic Production Control
     Simulated Annealing
     Tabu Search
     hybrid tools integrating different techniques

TO THE PRODUCTION PLANNING & AND CONTROL DOMAIN as

     Inventory control
     lot-sizing
     loading
     dispatching and scheduling
     group technology and cell formation
     order releasing
     multi-site production
     production control

Special attention will be devoted to those works proposing a new approach to
solve the traditional PP&C problems thanks to the potentialities offered by
these advanced techniques with respect to the traditional ones.
Papers or contributions describing industrial applications and prototypes
are particularly welcome.
IN ADDITION TO THE GENERAL SESSION, A SPECIAL SESSION ON AUTONOMUS AGENT IS
PLANNED

PROGRAM 

The main activity at the workshop will be a very informal presentation and
discussion of 
- working papers about research projects in progress 
- results of already finished or concluding research, or 
- simply the presentation of ideas about future research projects to discuss
with the other participants. 
Therefore no full paper is requested (but not forbidden) in order to take
part to the workshop, but simply a few-page working paper or a draft.
A pre-print copy of the proceedings, collecting the working papers of the
participants, will be available prior to the workshop.
An invited speech about the topic is also planned.
Contact 

SUBMISSION

Submission deadline is December 15th, 1999.
Authors are invited to submit their abstract or working paper to this
address:

   [email-masked]

We encourage electronic mail submission in Postscript, Pdf or Word for
Windows format.
Submissions should include the title, author(s), author's affiliation,
e-mail address, fax number and postal address.
Acceptance will be notified by the workshop scientific co-ordinator, on the
basis of coherence of the working paper content to the workshop subjects.
Informal proceedings will be available at the workshop. Negotiations  
are under way to publish papers, selected from those presented at the 
workshop, in a refereed proceedings volume.

WORKSHOP SITE

    Florence (Firenze) is located in Tuscany, Italy and it needs no more
explanation!

THE SIG WORKSHOP IS ORGANIZED BY

    International Federation for Information Processing - Working Group 5.7
    Politecnico di Milano  - Department of Economics and Production
    University of Florence - Department of Energy Engineering "Sergio
Stecco"

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

    Prof. Marco Garetti      Politecnico di Milano
    Prof. Mario Tucci         Universita' di Firenze
    Ing. Marco Taisch        Politecnico di Milano

IMPORTANT DATES

  15 Dec 1999      Submission deadline for abstracts or working paper
  15 Jan 2000       Notification to the authors                           
  30 Jan 2000       Workshop registration and hotel reservation           
 24-25 Feb. 2000  Workshop                                              

FURTHER INFORMATION

Please consult the web site of SIG-ATPPC:

    http://www.ecopro.polimi.it/sig/

CONTACT ADDRESSES

Marco Taisch
Dipartimento di Economia e Produzione
Politecnico di Milano
Piazza L. Da Vinci, 32
I-20133 MILANO
phone +39-02-2399.4815
fax   +39-02-2399.2700
e-mail [email-masked]

Gianni Bettini
Sezione Impianti e Tecnologie Industriali
Universita' degli Studi di Firenze
Via Cesare Lombroso, 6/17
I - 50134 Firenze
phone +39-055-4796.709
fax   +39-055-4224137
e-mail [email-masked] 

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Ing. Marco Taisch
Dipartimento di Economia e Produzione
Politecnico di Milano
Piazza L. Da Vinci, 32
I-20133 MILANO
phone +39-2-2399.4815
fax   +39-2-2399.2700
e-mail [email-masked]
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