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Special Issue of Computers & Operations Research

“Scheduling in Manufacturing Systems”

Special Issue Editors:

Alexander A. Lazarev, Institute of Control Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Vincent T’Kindt, University of Tours, Tours, France

Frank Werner, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany

This special issue intends to give the state-of-the-art of scheduling research that satisfies practical

needs of modern manufacturing and resource planning. Interdisciplinary methodologies may be given,

based on advanced scheduling and combinatorial optimization techniques, in order to provide efficient

solution procedures for practical scheduling problems. The aim of this issue is to attract high-quality

papers representing the most recent developments of models and solution techniques used for scheduling

in manufacturing systems which include parallel as well as multi-stage facilities, coordinating scheduling

with transportation decisions, and scheduling in segments of a supply chain. Submitted papers

have to comply with the philosophy of the journal: they have to contain a substantial computational

evaluation and interesting algorithmic aspects. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• grouping and sequencing operations in multi-stage systems

• scheduling in flexible shops

• scheduling with precedence constraints, batching, setups and further technological constraints either

with a single (regular or non-regular) and multi-criteria objectives

• scheduling heuristics

• robust scheduling

• robotic cells

• scheduling in parallel computing and grids

• scheduling in segments of a supply chain

Refereeing process:

Authors should submit their paper via EES http://www.ees.elsevier.com/cor and select ”Special

Issue: Scheduling in Manufacturing Systems” when asked to indicate the ”Article Type” in the submission

process. It is recommended that a paper does not exceed 20 pages.

Submitted papers should not have have been previously published nor be currently under consideration

for publication elsewhere. Refereeing and the selection of papers will be carried out according to the

standards of Computers & Operations Research.

Important Dates:

Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2009.

Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2010.

Contact:

Prof. Frank Werner

Faculty of Mathematics

Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

PSF 4120

39016 Magdeburg

GERMANY

Phone: +49 391 6712025

Fax: +49 391 6711171

Email: frank.werner@mathematik.uni-magdeburg.de

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T'KINDT Vincent,

Professeur

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Laboratoire d'Informatique

Département Informatique - Polytech'Tours

Université François-Rabelais de Tours

64 avenue Jean Portalis

37200 Tours - FRANCE

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tel: (33) 2 47 36 14 27 / fax: (33) 2 47 36 14 22

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www.li.univ-tours.fr / www.polytech.univ-tours.fr

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Visit the e-OCEA website dedicated to scheduling problems: www.ocea.li.univ-tours.fr