Le 12/07/2017 par David Savourey :
*Special Section: ROADEF/EURO Challenge 2016* *Guest Editors* * * *Roberto Wolfler Calvo* LIPN, Laboratoire d’Infomatique de Paris Nord, Universite Paris 13, Villetaneuse, France, roberto.wolfler@lipn.univ-paris13.fr *Jean Andre* Air Liquide R&D-Applied Mathematics Global Lab, Operations Research Team, Paris, France, jean.andre@airliquide.com *Eric Bourreau* LIRMM, 161 rue Ada, Montpellier Cedex 5, 34090 Montpellier, France, eric.bourreau@lirmm.fr *SUBMISSION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 1, 2017* Inventory routing is key issue in logistics. The ROADEF/EURO Challenge 2016 (http://challenge.roadef.org/2016/en/index.php) was devoted to this topic and focused on an inventory routing problem proposed by Air Liquide. The inventory routing problem proposed by Air Liquide arises in their healthcare business (https://www.airliquide.com/healthcare), which delivers large (bulk) volumes of liquid oxygen to 7500 hospitals worldwide. Their inventory routing problem incorporates both vendor managed inventory (VMI) customers (the majority) and call-in customers (still a significant number) who are served on demand. We invite papers for a special section of/Transportation Science/devoted to this variant of the Inventory Routing Problem. All papers submitted have to discuss approaches that can solve the ROADEF instances. All papers will go through the standard review process of/Transportation Science/. Up to five accepted papers will be published in the special section; others may appear as regular journal articles. *Submission:*Please submit your manuscript online via ScholarOne Manuscripts at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/transci. When choosing Manuscript Type in Step 1 of the submission process, enter “Special Section – ROADEF/EURO”, otherwise your submission will be handled as a regular manuscript. The Instructions to Authors can be found on the /Transportation Science /homepage: http://pubsonline.informs.org/page/trsc/submission-guidelines. ********************************************************** * * Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to * * DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de * * Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be * addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The * original sender, however, is invited to prepare an * update of the replies received and to communicate it * via DMANET. * * DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET) * http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/ * **********************************************************
