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Joint International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL2025) and EURO Mini Conference on Maritime Optimization and Logistics (EuroMar2025), Delft / Rotterdam 

Save the date: September 8-10, 2025

Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam, in Delft & Rotterdam, the Netherlands. https://www.iccl2025.org/

The International Conference on Computational Logistics and EURO Mini Conference on Maritime Optimization and Logistics (EuroMar) will be held on September 8-10, 2025 at Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam, in Delft & Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In the tradition of the ICCL conference series, ICCL focuses on the theory and applications of operations research, artificial intelligence, and management science to problems in logistics.The EuroMar aims to explore, discuss, and advance all those relevant research areas in the interplay between maritime and port logistics and optimization. 

Topics of the joint conference include among others:

1. Operations Research and Management in logistics
2. Routing problems
3. Maritime logistics
4. Port operations
5. Shipping operations
6. Port call optimization
7. Emergency logistics
8. Reverse logistics
9. Crowd logistics
10. Freight transportation
11. Green supply chain
12. Metropolitan/city logistics
13. Uncertainty modeling in planning and control
14. Learning-based optimization in logistics
15. Large-scale evolutionary optimization in logistics
16. Multi-agent systems in logistics
17. Self-organizing logistics
18. Internet of things in smart logistics
19. Artificial Intelligence in logistics
20. Machine learning applications in supply chain
21. Last-generation ICT networks
22. Land and maritime smart logistics
23. ICT in logistics
24. Computational issues in foreign trade supply chains
25. Facility (re-)layout decision problems

Important Dates

January 6, 2025: Opening of submission system 
February 21, 2025: Submission deadline for proposal special sessions
March 6, 2025: Notification of acceptance session proposals
May 1, 2025: Submission deadline full papers (conference proceedings) 
June 12, 2025: Submission deadline abstracts for presentation only
June 26, 2025: Notifications of acceptance (for both full papers and abstracts)
July 15, 2025: Deadline for submission of camera-ready paper
August 14, 2025: End of early registration (reduced conference fee)

Guidelines for special session proposals

Session proposals (length up to 400 words) should be submitted to f.schulte@tudelft.nl by  February 21, 2025, and should cover the following points:

1. Session title.
2. The organizer(s). Include names, addresses, and affiliations, and indicate the main responsible person. 
3. A brief summary of the scope/topic.

Guidelines for paper submission 

Two kinds of submissions are invited, that is, a proposal can be submitted for:

1. Conference papers for publication in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). 
2. Abstracts for presentation only.

Publication 

Conference papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences (LNCS), Springer.

Selected papers will be invited to a post-conference special issue for ICCL and EuroMar’25.

ICCL Conference Chairs

1. Frederik Schulte (Delft University of Technology)
2. Lóri Tavasszy (Delft University of Technology)
3. Rob Zuidwijk (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
4. Rommert Dekker (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
5. Stefan Voß (University of Hamburg)

EuroMar Conference Chairs

1. Dario Pacino (Technical University of Denmark)
2. Rosa G. Gonzalez-Ramirez (University of the Andes)
3. Çağatay Iris (University of Liverpool)
4. Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz (University of Twente)
5. Frederik Schulte (Delft University of Technology)

OeGOR Summer-School for PhD-candidates and Post-Docs, Krems (Austria)

The Austrian Society for Operations Research (OeGOR) organizes for the fourth time a summer-school for PhD-candidates and Post-Docs in cooperation with the Department for Economy and Health of the University for Continuing Education.

Invited Speakers:

Christina Büsing (RWTH Aachen): Dealing with uncertainty: robustness in combinatorial optimization

Tobias Harks (Uni Passau): Pricing in Resource Allocation Games

Date: 28.7.2025 – 1.8.2025
Place: University for Continuing Education (Donau Uni) Krems
Participation in the school is free of charge, if your institution or supervisor are members of OeGOR or of an OR-Society in a neighboring country. However, lunch will be organized centrally, thus requiring a meal contribution of € 60.- (nonrefundable) to be paid until 20.6.2025. All other food, travel and hotel arrangements must be organized and covered by the participants.

Registration: send an e-mail until May 16, 2025 (mentioning any dietary restrictions) to raimund.kovacevic@donau-uni.ac.at .

Each invited speaker will give a two-day program. The participants are also invited to give a presentation of their work. Take the chance to create a bond with fellow students and with OeGOR!

28.7.-29.7. Tobias Harks: Pricing in Resource Allocation Games

In this summer school I will present a quite general framework for pricing resources in order to induce desirable resource consumption profiles by selfish players. The theory is based on Lagrangian duality and I will show that the framework can help to unify several largely independent streams in the literature – tolls in transportation systems, Walrasian market equilibria, trading networks, energy networks and congestion control in communication networks
Besides reproving existing results, we establish novel existence results by using methods from polyhedral combinatorics, global optimization and discrete convexity.

30.7.: Short presentations by the participants

31.7.-1.8. Christina Büsing: Dealing with uncertainty: robustness in combinatorial optimization

Uncertainties are everywhere in optimization problems: in the cost, in the weights or in the demand. Robust optimization is a classical way to include these uncertainties into the optimization process. A solution is called robust, if it remains feasible in every single realization of the uncertain parameters. Furthermore, we aim at minimizing the worst-case cost. This setting is suitable if we need a solution with a high guaranteed performance as it is the case for infrastructure development. In this summer school, we will consider different forms of robust optimization as strict robustness and two-stage robustness. We will analyze the complexity of the corresponding problems according to the most classical uncertainty sets. Especially for the so-called budget uncertainties, we will show that the robust version is as difficult as the problem without uncertainties. Finally, we will consider two-stage robust problems motivated by applications in health care.

The participants are invited to bring their own laptops with wifi-internet access (Eduroam or 4G/5G).