2016 TSL Workshop
Call for Submissions
Following the format of the past two years, the fifth TSL Workshop will take place June 19-22, 2016 and will be hosted by the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. The workshop's theme is "Analytics and Automation in Logistics".
Supply chains increasingly produce and encounter large amounts of data that contains valuable information. Concurrently, the modern demands on a logistics enterprise require performance at high speed and low latency. The convergence of these two trends imply that supply chains must translate incoming data into decisions and actions at ever faster rates -- in real-time and automatically in a variety of applications. These emerging concerns mean that the intelligent, efficient deployment of data analytics for automated decisions is not just an enabling technology, but rather a new decision paradigm whose ramifications will shape the design and management of modern logistics.
This theme encompasses a variety of applications, including (but not limited to) urban logistics, dynamic and real-time routing, e-commerce, next- and same-day delivery, modular production, make-to-order production, and automated storage and retrieval. We welcome extended abstract submissions in these and other areas under the TSL umbrella.
Keynote Speaker:
Henrik Christensen, KUKA Chair of Robotics, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Industry Panel:
The workshop will include an industry panel on the workshop theme moderated by Profs. Sebastian Pokutta and Chip White.
Submissions:
Each submission consists of an abstract no longer than two pages. Submissions will be processed through EasyChair:
http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tslw2016
As was the case with the last two TSL workshops, we expect a special issue of Transportation Science to be dedicated to the workshop's theme. In addition, submitting authors may also want to consider a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering focused on "Emerging Advances in Logistics Systems: Integrating Remote Sensing, IT, and Autonomy"; see http://www.ieee-ras.org/images/publications/t-ase/CALL_for%20_PAPER_EALS.pdf.
Workshop Dates (note new submission deadline):
2016/01/15 (NEW) Extended abstract submission deadline
2016/03/01 (NEW) Notification of acceptance
2016/04/15 Early registration deadline
2016/06/19 Workshop welcome reception (evening)
2016/06/20-22 Workshop dates
Note that the workshop has been timed to begin the Sunday after TRISTAN, to facilitate combined travel to both events.
Registration:
Full - TSL Member Full - Non-TSL Student
Early $375 $400 $225
Regular $425 $450 $275
On-Site $475 $500 $325
Student tickets do not include entrance to the welcome reception, social activities or conference dinner, but do include on-site catering (coffee breaks and lunches).
Organizing Committee:
Alan Erera, Sebastian Pokutta, Alejandro Toriello (chair)
Advisory Members: Martin Savelsbergh, Chip White
Program committee members:
J. Bartholdi (Georgia Tech)
A. Campbell (U. of Iowa)
E.P. Chew (NUS)
C. Cleophas (RWTH Aachen)
I. Contreras (Concordia)
J.F. Cordeau (HEC Montréal)
M. Dessouky (USC)
I. Dolinskaya (Northwestern)
K. Gue (U. of Louisville)
M. Hewitt (Loyola-Chicago)
A. Kleywegt (Georgia Tech)
R. de Koster (RSM)
L.H. Lee (NUS)
J. Leung (CUHK)
B. Montreuil (Georgia Tech)
F. Ordóñez (U. de Chile)
Y. Ouyang (UIUC)
S. Reveliotis (Georgia Tech)
L.M. Rousseau (Polytechnique de Montréal)
K. Smilowitz (Northwestern)
H. Topaloglu (Cornell)
Social Agenda:
The workshop will include a welcome reception on the evening of Sunday, June 19 in the Ramblin' Wreck Club Room of the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center (http://www.gatechhotel.com/). The afternoon of Tuesday, June 21 will include a visit to Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park, with paid admission for workshop participants to the Center for Civil and Human Rights (http://www.civilandhumanrights.org/). Centennial Park and its surroundings also include the World of Coca-Cola, the Georgia Aquarium, the CNN Center and the College Football Hall of Fame. The conference dinner is tentatively scheduled to take place that evening in the top floor of the Center for Civil and Human Rights, overlooking the park.
Lodging:
Georgia Tech's campus is adjacent to Midtown Atlanta. In addition to the Georgia Tech Hotel, Midtown includes a wide variety of lodging options. We will post more detailed lodging information closer to the conference dates.
Please see the workshop website for future updates:
http://www.informs.org/Community/TSL/TSL-Workshop-2016-Call-for-Submissions
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Alejandro Toriello
Assistant Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta GA
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