Call for Papers ICIL 2018

International Conference

on Industrial Logistics ICIL 2018

May 15-17, 2018

Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Afeka - Industrial

Engineering

Dept.

ICIL 2018

We are inviting you to submit your papers and take part in the International Conference of

Industrial Logistics (ICIL) 2018.

ICIL 2018 will take place in Israel, from May 15th till May 17th 2018, hosted by the

Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

in Beer-Sheva (Israel), the International Centre for Innovation and Industrial Logistics

(ICIIL), and the Operations Research Society of Israel (ORSIS).

ICIIL is a nonprofit professional association which has been developing an integrated view of

Industrial Logistics, sharing and exchanging ideas and research results among students,

researchers, academics and industrialists. The biannual International Conference on Industrial

Logistics (ICIL) is the main mean to attain these objectives worldwide, moving from France

1993 to Brazil 1995, USA 1997, Russia 1999, Okinawa 2001, Finland 2003, Uruguay 2005,

Lithuania 2006, Israel 2008, Brazil 2010, Croatia 2012 and 2014, and Poland 2016.

The conference will feature a multidisciplinary program that will include original research

results and contributions to the fields of logistics and supply chain management. The

Organizing and Scientific Council gladly invite professionals, academics, students and

industrialists to send contributing papers to the Conference.

We are looking forward to meeting you at Beer-Sheva, in May 2018!

GENERAL INFORMATION

The conference website is: http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/engn/iem/ICIL2018/Pages/default.aspx

Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icil2018

(see submission guidelines section below).

Submission deadline for full papers and abstracts is by January 21st, 2018.

Notifications of acceptance/rejection by February 25, 2018

The acceptance is conditioned on the speaker’s full registration.

Deadline for conference fee payment for inclusion of accepted papers in the

Proceeding is April 2, 2018

CONFERENCE FEE AND REGISTRATION

Conference Early registration fee: EUR300

Early registration fee till March 30, 2018

Conference fee later: EUR350

Notifications of acceptance/rejection by February 25, 2018

Deadline for conference fee payment for inclusion of accepted papers in the

Proceeding is April 2, 2018

The registration fee includes: the Proceeding, 2 lunches, dinner,

Coffee breaks, reception in Beer Abraham by the Mayor, and excursion to Jerusalem

Registration will open after March 1, 2018, please use Conference application on http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/engn/iem/ICIL2018/Pages/default.aspx

CONFERENCE VENUE

The conference will be held in Marcus Family Campus,

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva -

Hotel: Leonardo_Negev_Beer-Sheva_hotel

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submission preparation guide lines and a template are found in

http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/engn/iem/ICIL2018/Pages/default.aspx

All submissions are done through the EasyChair system (www.easychair.org).

First-time users: please create your profile and log-in.

All other users: either go directly to the ICIL 2018 submission page, or please

log-in and look for ICIL 2018 for submission.

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or

conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers (up to six pages) - based on the template

• Abstract (up to 250 words) –based on the abstract template (or initial part of the

full paper template up-to the keywords.)

PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION OF PAPERS

Submitted papers will be subject to reviews by at least two independent reviewers.

All accepted papers will be published in the Conference. Proceedings to be distributed

during the Conference.

Conference language is English.

Oral presentations should take 15 minutes. The authors will have the possibility of

using computers for the presentations (Power Point). There will be opportunity to

present a paper with a poster in a poster section.

According to the Scientific Committee recommendations, the authors of the selected

papers will be invited to extend their papers for publication in scientific journals.

CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS

For papers or abstract submission: icil2018israell@post.bgu.ac.il

For registration accommodation etc.: nilly.icil.israel@gmail.com

For conference chair: Zilla Sinuany-Stern: zilla@bgu.ac.il

Dept. Of Industrial Engineering and Management

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva, 8410501, Israel

MAIN TOPICS Areas of interest include but are not limited to: ♦Supply Chain Management

♦Purchasing and Procurement

♦Inventory Management

♦In-plant Logistics

♦Material Handling

♦Plant Layout

♦Operations Management

♦Plant Location ♦Warehousing

♦Warehouse/DC Design and Layout

♦Storage Equipment and Systems

♦Warehouse Process Optimization

♦Warehouse Location

♦ Distribution Design and Planning, ♦Distribution Management

♦Transportation

♦Transportation Modes ♦ Intermodal Transport

♦Transportation Management

♦Route Optimization

♦ Scheduling

♦Logistics Modelling and Simulation

♦Simulation Languages for Waiting line systems ♦Automation in Logistics

♦Logistics Information Systems

♦ Identification and Communication ♦ e- Logistics

♦Packaging and Labelling

♦Reverse Logistics ♦Recycling and Waste Management

♦Sustainable (Green) Logistics/SCM

♦ Corporate Social Responsibility

♦Reliability and Maintenance in Logistics

♦ Safety and risk

♦Internet of things ♦Financial and Economic Modelling/Aspects of Logistics

♦Forecasting

♦Customer Service

♦After-sales Support

♦Logistic Outsourcing

♦Global Logistics

♦Disaster logistics

♦Humanitarian logistics

♦Ergonomics in logistics

♦Internet of things

♦Smart logistics

♦Information systems in logistics

Conference Chairperson Zilla Sinuany-Stern (Israel)

Honorary Co-Chairperson Alberto Canen (Brazil)

Organizing committee members Hillel Bar-Gera

Yuval Cohen

Ehud Menipaz

Michal Tzur

SCIENTIFIC/REVIEWING COMMITTEE

• Adler N. (Israel)

• Alaluf A. (Israel)

• Baran B.

(Paraguay))

• Bar-Gera H.

(Israel)

• Bitan Y. (Israel)

• Cajner H. (Croatia)

• Canen AG. (Brasil)

• Cohen Y. (Israel)

• Dukic G. (Croatia)

• Epstein L. (Chile)

• Fae M.I. (Brasil)

• Fernandez I.

(Spain)

• Fogliatti de Sinay

M.C. (Brasil)

• Friedman L.

(Israel)

• Freis C. (Brazil)

• Frenkel I. (Israel)

• Gdowska K.

(Poland)

• Glass Celia

• Grinshpoun T.

(Israel)

• Hadad Y. (Israel)

• Helo P. (Finland)

• Herer Y. (Israel)

• Ilani H. (Israel)

• Keren B (Israel)

• Kerner Y. (Israel)

• Książek R.

(Poland)

• Lerher T.

(Slovenia)

• Marie R. (France)

• Marszewska J.

(Poland)

• Menipaz E. (Israel)

• Mittal A. (India)

• Mosheiov G.

(Israel)

• Naseraldin H.

(Israel)

• Nof S. (USA)

• Ozturk A. (Japan)

• Penn M. (Israel)

• Perlman Y. (Israel)

• Pinto G. (Israel)

• Renko S. (Croatia)

• Sawik T. (Poland)

• Sawik B. (Poland)

• Schmidt S.

(Germany)

• Segev E. (Israel)

• Shabtay D. (Israel)

• Shauly M. (Israel)

• Sinuany-Stern Z.

(Israel)

• Shoval S. (Israel)

• Tammela I.

(Brasil)

• Tzur M. (Israel)

• Veza I. (Croatia)

• Weintraub A.

(Chile)

• Wu Y. (China)

• Yedidsion L.

(Israel)

SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS

♦ Dept. of Ind. Eng. & Mgmt., Faculty of Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the

Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

♦ Operations Research Society of Israel (ORSIS)

♦ City of Beer Sheva

♦ Ira Foundation for Business Technology & Society

♦ Association of Engineers, Architects and Graduates in Technological Sciences in

Israel

♦ Afeka, Tel-Aviv Academic College of Engineering

♦ Bar-Ilan University

♦ Sami-Shamoon College of Engineering

PARTNER CONFERENCE

Operations Research Society of Israel (ORSIS)

The next ORSIS annual conference will take place on May 13– 14, 2018 at Ben-

Gurion University in Be’er-Sheva.