14th International Workshop on Lot Sizing

28th to 30th of August 2024 in Kaiserslautern

About IWLS 2024

The 14th edition of the International Workshop on Lot Sizing will be held in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The Workshop is organised by the Chair of Production Management at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU).

The venue of the workshop is Fraunhofer Centre. The workshop starts on Wednesday, August 28 and ends on Friday, August 30, 2024.

As in the previous years, the goal of the workshop is to cover recent advances in lot sizing: new approaches for classical problems, new relevant problems, integration of lot sizing with other problems such as scheduling, distribution or vehicle routing, presentation of case studies, etc. We especially welcome submissions that focus on sustainability or renewable energy. The workshop will also aim at favoring exchanges between researchers and enhancing fruitful collaboration.

The workshop is a joint meeting of the GOR and the EURO Working Group on Lot Sizing.

Important dates

Short abstract (up to 1,000 characters) submission deadline: closed

Confirmation of accepted abstracts: done

Extended version of accepted abstract (up to 4 pages) submission deadline: June 30, 2024

Registration deadline was: July 15, 2024

Submission

As in the previous years, we foresee to have 20 presentations in a single track. In case you want to give a presentation at IWLS 2024, you should submit a short abstract (with a maximum of 1,000 characters) before June 10th. Please, submit your abstract with the subject "Abstract submission IWLS 2024", to the following email address: iwls2024(at)wiwi.rptu.de. Based on the number of submissions and the available time slots for presentations, the local organizers and the steering committee will select the accepted presentations until June 15th. The deadline for the extended version of accepted abstracts is June 30th.

Only those accepted presentations for which the extended abstracts (up to four pages) have been received will be included in the program. Authors are requested to provide their contribution according to the following latex template: IWLS2024 template.

Feel free to contact iwls2024(at)wiwi.rptu.de for any questions or comments you might have.

Workshop venue

In Kaiserslautern, the conference will take place at

Fraunhofer Centre
Fraunhofer-Platz 1
67663 Kaiserslautern

Bus stop: Fraunhofer Zentrum

Accomodation

 

    Travel information

    Travelling with your own vehicle

    Kaiserslautern is connected to the motorway network via the A 6 (Mannheim - Saarbrücken), the A 63 (Mainz - Kaiserslautern) and three federal highways.

    Travelling by plane

    Frankfurt am Main Airport (car journey time approx. 90 minutes, train journey time approx. 2 hours)

    Travelling by public transport

    Every hour to Kaiserslautern: The journey time with TGV / ICE / IC or RE from the ICE hub Mannheim main station is approx. 45 minutes. Long-distance and regional buses stop at the Kaiserslautern bus station in front of the main railway station.

    From the main railway station to the “Fraunhofer Zentrum” it takes about 10 minutes by regular buses, about 5 minutes by taxi, about 15 minutes by rental bike and about 20 minutes on foot.

    The current timetables for bus connections to and from “Fraunhofer Zentrum” are always available on the SWK website.

    Click here to go to the SWK website!

    Conference Program

    Book of Abstracts

    Information

    Date

    28th to 30th of August 2024

    Place

    Kaiserslautern, Germany

      Registration

      Workshop fees  
      Regular€ 350
      (PhD) Student€ 100
      Accompanying person€ 125

      The workshop fee covers a wine tasting with wine from the Pfalz (Palatine), the conference dinner with a beautiful panoramic view of the city of Kaiserslautern, lunch and coffee breaks, and a social event before the conference dinner. In addition, each participant is responsible for his/her own lodging and travel expenses.

      The registration fee for one accompanying person covers only the wine tasting, the social event, and the conference dinner.

      Local  committee
      • Florian Sahling (chair)
      • Carmen Kranz
      • Jens Christian
      • Lukas Bath
      • Stephan Köppel

       

      Steering committee
      • Nabil Absi (France)
      • Kerem Akartunali (UK)
      • Bernardo Almada-Lobo (Portugal)
      • Christian Almeder (Germany)
      • Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès (France)
      • Silvio de Araujo (Brasil)
      • Meltem Denizel (Turkey)
      • Raf Jans (Canada)
      • Hark-Chin Hwang (South Korea)
      • Safia Kedad-Sidhoum (France)
      • Edwin Romeijn (USA)
      • Florian Sahling (Germany)
      • Wilco van den Heuvel (Netherlands)
      • Andrea Visentin (Ireland)
      • Laurence A. Wolsey (Belgium)

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