The impact of transportation and logistics on the modern economy and society has been growing steadily over the last few decades. The worldwide division of labour, the connection of distributed production centres, and the increased mobility of individuals lead to an increased demand for efficient solutions to problems in transport, logistics, and supply chain management. Along with the development of more powerful computer systems, design and optimisation techniques like evolutionary computing approaches have been developed that allow us to use computers for the systematic design, optimisation, and improvement of systems. EvoTransLog, Evolutionary Computation in Transportation and Logistics, addresses all aspects of the use of evolutionary computation, local search, and other nature-inspired optimisation and design techniques for transport, logistics, and supply chain management. It takes place within Evo* , which joins Europe's premier co-located events in the field of evolutionary computing, namely the EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoBIO conferences and the conferences on the Application of Evolutionary Computation. EvoTransLog gives researchers in the above-named fields, as well as people from industry, an opportunity to present their latest research and to discuss current developments and applications, besides fostering closer future interaction between members of the different scientific communities. The proceedings are published in Springer's LNCS series .

Upcoming event:

• EvoTransLog 2011
  • chairs: Jörn Grahl and Christian Prins
  • incorporated in Evo* 2011, 27-29 April 2011, Torino, Italy

Past events:

• EvoTransLog 2010
  • chairs: Andreas Fink and Jörn Grahl
  • incorporated in Evo* 2010, 7-9 April 2010, Istanbul, Turkey
  • refereed papers published in C. Di Chio, A. Fink, A., J. Grahl, et al. (eds.) Applications of Evolutionary Computing - EvoApplications 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 6025), Springer, Berlin (2010) [Springer Online , Springer Link ]
  • acceptance ratio: 45%
  • programme committee: Christian Blum, Univ. Politecnica Catalunya, Spain; Peter A.N. Bosman, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Marco Caserta, University of Hamburg, Germany; Loukas Dimitriou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece; Karl Doerner, University of Vienna, Austria; Martin Josef Geiger, Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, Germany; Stefan Irnich, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; Hoong Chuin Lau, Singapore Management University, Singapore; Christian Prins, University of Technology of Troyes, France; Franz Rothlauf, University of Mainz, Germany; Kay Chen Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Theodore Tsekeris, Center of Planning and Economic Research, Athens, Greece; Stefan Voß, University of Hamburg, Germany; Oliver Wendt, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
• EvoTransLog 2009
  • chairs: Andreas Fink and Franz Rothlauf
  • incorporated in Evo* 2009 , 15-17 April 2009, Tübingen
  • refereed papers published in M. Giacobini, A. Fink, F. Rothlauf, et al. (eds.) Applications of Evolutionary Computing - EvoWorkshops 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 5484), Springer, Berlin (2009) [Springer Online , Springer Link ]
  • acceptance ratio: 55%
  • programme committee: Marco Caserta, University of Hamburg, Germany; Karl Doerner, University of Vienna, Austria; Hoong Chuin Lau, Singapore Management University, Singapore; Christian Prins, University of Technology of Troyes, France; Kay Chen Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Theodore Tsekeris, Center of Planning and Economic Research, Athens, Greece; Stefan Voß, University of Hamburg, Germany
• EvoTransLog 2008
  • chairs: Andreas Fink and Franz Rothlauf
  • incorporated in Evo* 2008, 26-28 March 2008, Naples, Italy
  • refereed papers published in M. Giacobini, A. Fink, F. Rothlauf, et al. (eds.) Applications of Evolutionary Computing - EvoWorkshops 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 4974), Springer, Berlin (2008) [Springer Online , Springer Link ]
  • acceptance ratio: 45%
  • programme committee: Christian Bierwirth, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany; Peter A.N. Bosman, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Karl Doerner, University of Vienna, Austria; Martin Josef Geiger, University of Hohenheim, Germany; Jens Gottlieb, SAP, Germany; Hoong Chuin Lau, Singapore Management University, Singapore; Giselher Pankratz, FernUni Hagen, Germany; Christian Prins, University of Technology of Troyes, France; Agachai Sumalee, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong; Theodore Tsekeris, Center of Planning and Economic Research, Athens, Greece; Stefan Voß, University of Hamburg, Germany
• EvoTransLog 2007
  • chairs: Andreas Fink and Franz Rothlauf
  • incorporated in Evo* 2007, 11-13 April 2007, Valencia, Spain
  • refereed papers published in M. Giacobini, A. Fink, F. Rothlauf, et al. (eds.) Applications of Evolutionary Computing - EvoWorkshops 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 4448), Springer, Berlin (2007) [Springer Online , Springer Link ]
  • acceptance ratio: 40%
  • programme committee: Christian Bierwirth, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany; Karl Doerner, University of Vienna, Austria; Martin Josef Geiger, University of Hohenheim, Germany; Jens Gottlieb, SAP, Germany; Jörg Homberger, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences. Germany; Hoong Chuin Lau, Singapore Management University, Singapore; Dirk C. Mattfeld, University of Technology Braunschweig, Germany; Giselher Pankratz, FernUni Hagen, Germany; Christian Prins, University of Technology of Troyes, France; Agachai Sumalee, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong; Theodore Tsekeris, Center of Planning and Economic Research, Athens, Greece; Stefan Voß, University of Hamburg, Germany