The sixth meeting of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics optimization is taking place at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands from 10 to 12 July 2017.

The VeRoLog conference is an annual meeting bringing together the large community of researchers and practitioners interested in vehicle routing optimization and its relationship with logistics.

The conference is open to high quality methodological contributions, relevant real-world applications, and case studies from industry and the service sector.

• February 28, 2017: submission deadline
• March 10, 2017: extended submission deadline 
• March 31, 2017: notification of acceptance
• April 3, 2017: opening registration
• May 15, 2017: closing early bird registration
• May 19, 2017: closing extended early bird registration
• May 31, 2017: closing of registration
• July 10-12, 2017: conference

• PhD Student: 300 EUR (early) – 400 EUR (late)
• Regular: 450 EUR (early) – 550 EUR (late)

The problem of the VeRoLog solver challenge is based on a routing challenge faced by a large international herd improvement company. The task at hand is to regularly measure the quality of milk samples at a number of farm locations, the customers. For this, special measuring tools are needed, and those have to be delivered to the customers at their request. After the measurement, the tools have to be picked up again. The planning of these deliveries and pickups will be the challenge for the competition.

The challenge started during the VeRoLog meeting in Nantes (June 2016) and ends at the VeRoLog 2017. 

Further information: http://verolog.ortec.com

• VeRoLog 2016 in Nantes, France, 6-8 June 2016
• VeRoLog 2015 in Vienna, Austria, 8-10 June 2015
• VeRoLog 2014 in Oslo, Norway, 22-25 June 2014
• VeRoLog 2013 in Southampton, United Kingdom, 7-10 July 2013
• VeRoLog 2012 in Bologna, Italy, 18-20 June 2012

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