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Please note that the deadline for full paper submissions to ICIL 2025 has been extended to August 15, 2025.</div>
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The conference will feature a keynote address by Prof. Jayant Rajgopal (University of Pittsburgh) on Logistics Models in Public Health, as well as a special ˇ§Meet the Editorˇ¨ session with Assoc. Prof. Steven Carnovale, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Purchasing
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Selected papers will be considered for publication in the Lecture Notes in Operations Research series by Springer.</div>
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The updated Call for Papers is attached, and a brief summary appears below.</div>
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Sincerely,</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>U. Aytun Ozturk, Ph.D.</b></span></div>
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Professor of Management Science</div>
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Chair, ICIL 2025 | Vice President, ICIIL</div>
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College of Global Liberal Arts | Ritsumeikan University</div>
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Building A, AC5314 | 2-150 Iwakura-cho |Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-8570, JAPAN</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tel:+81-72-665-2731 | ozturk@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>16th Biennial International Conference on Industrial Logistics (ICIL 2025)</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Dates:</b> October 30 to November 2, 2025<br>
<b>Location:</b> Ritsumeikan University Tokyo Campus, Tokyo, Japan</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The 16th Biennial International Conference on Industrial Logistics (ICIL 2025) will take place in Tokyo, Japan, from October 30 to November 2, 2025, hosted by the Research Organization of Open Innovation and
Collaboration at Ritsumeikan University and the International Centre for Innovation and Industrial Logistics (ICIIL). The conference will be held at Ritsumeikan Universityˇ¦s Tokyo Campus. Prof. Jayant Rajgopal (University of Pittsburgh) will deliver the keynote
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ICIIL is a non-profit professional association that develops an integrated view of Industrial Logistics and facilitates the exchange of ideas and research among professionals, academics, students, and industry
leaders. The ICIL is the main platform through which these objectives are pursued worldwide, with events held in France (1993), Brazil (1995), the USA (1997), Russia (1999), Japan (2001), Finland (2003), Uruguay (2005), Lithuania (2006), Israel (2008), Brazil
(2010), Croatia (2012), Croatia (2014), Poland (2016), Israel (2018), and Croatia (2023). In 2025, Japan will host researchers once more.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Marking its 32nd anniversary, 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 Committees welcome submissions from professionals, academics, students, and industry practitioners. We invite research that examines the effect of Industry 5.0 on logistics and supply chain management. We also welcome papers on advanced
analytics, supply chain optimization, smart and connected logistics, circular economy models, and carbon-neutral operations. Topics such as data-driven decision-making, ethical sourcing, waste reduction, and digital transformation are also highly relevant.
We particularly value contributions that demonstrate how novel approaches drive innovation in industrial logistics and supply chain management by connecting theory and practice.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Paper Submissions</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Participants are invited to submit full papers that contribute to theoretical, empirical, or practical aspects of industrial logistics. Selected high-quality papers will be recommended for publication in Springerˇ¦s
<i>Lecture Notes in Operations Research </i>series. The series is indexed in Scopus and other academic databases. Final selections will be made prior to the conference, and authors must submit revised versions by the deadline to be eligible.</span></div>
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<span role="presentation" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Submission platform:
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Registration</b><br>
Details on registration, paper submission, and the conference program are available on the official ICIL 2025 website.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For questions regarding participation or contributions, please email:
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