2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems (CIPLS)
The management of production and logistics systems in today’s fiercely competitive environment is a difficult task and has become progressively complex. Major changes in products, processes, technologies, and societies bring along remarkable challenges and increasing market demands. Modelling and optimisation of complex problems arising in production and logistics systems is of paramount importance in surviving and achieving competitive gains in productivity and quality.
Within this context, the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems (CIPLS) aims to address all issues related to the design, planning, control, and continuous improvement of production and logistics systems using computational intelligence techniques. In the inaugural CIPLS 2011, which was held in Paris, we received 22 submissions and accepted 8 full papers. CIPLS 2013 is the second one, and we were delighted to have received 28 submissions. Among them, we have accepted 19 papers and rejected 9. These papers cover a wide variety of methodologies, ranging from conventional search methods to unconventional nature-inspired algorithms, and tackled various types of problems including transportation scheduling, assembly line balancing, logistics planning and vehicle routing, among others.
We would like to thank all the authors for their contributions, and the program committee members for their efforts throughout the reviewing process. Without them, this event would not have been possible.
Finally, we would also like to thank Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, the general chair of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2013, for his coordination and assistance.