CALL FOR PAPERS
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5th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics (IT4L'17)

Prague, Czech Republic, 3 - 6 September, 2017

www.fedcsis.org
E-mail: it4l2017@fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to IT4L’17 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2017).

FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter and Czech Technical University in Prague, in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Chechoslovakia Section, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section (Gdansk) Computer Society Chapter, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz (Poland) ACM Chapter, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Polish Cluster of Research and Development of Internet of Things, Mazovia Cluster ICT.

TOPICS
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The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Innovations in information systems supporting logistics and its management (WMS, SCM, TMS, LIS, VMI, CRP, PLM, and others)
- Innovative technologies in warehouse management: RFID, Voice Picking, Image Recognition, Pick Radar, etc.
- Logistics process modeling, including influence of warehouse automatic
- Optimization of logistics processes:
optimal vehicle routing and management, boundary conditions
optimal picking routing (global optimization, fast search, collision prediction and prevention)
shared mobility systems
day-to-day dynamic traffic assignment models
effective methods of picking (multi picking, batch picking ect.)
relationships between picking efficiency and products decomposition in warehouse area
- Environmental protection (for example carbon-aware transportation)
- Artificial intelligence systems and decision support systems in logistics
- BI, data mining and process mining in logistics
- Quality management algorithms and methods
- Material Flow Theory and applications


PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should be submitted by May 10, 2017 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events).

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission: May 10, 2017 (strict deadline, there will be no extensions)
- Position paper submission: May 31, 2017
- Acceptance decision: June 14, 2017
- Final version of paper submission: June 28, 2017
- Final deadline for discounted fee: August 1, 2017
- Conference dates: September 3-6, 2017

EVENT CHAIRS
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- Gontar, Beata, Uniwersity of Lodz, Poland
- Gontar, Zbigniew, SGH, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
- Pamuła, Anna, University of Łódź, Poland

CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES

Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki


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