Special Session on Reverse Logistics and Supply Chain in Collaborative Environments

Description and Objectives

The Reverse Logistics from electroeletronic waste is a relevant operational strategy to promote an environmental cooperation in the Supply Chain between the manufacturing and recycling companies. In reason of governmental laws, the electroeletronic manufacturing companies has been motivated to implement the waste management. As consequence the reverse logistics has been adopted to improve their operations focusing on environmental responsibility: pollutants emissions reducing. On this context, the organizational practices and academic environment need to work in team to develop the collective intelligence from networking to meet the governmental rules (regulatory instruments) and promote the environmental education. Furthermore could be possible the development of appropriate software exclusive to reverse logistics. Therefore we invite all peers to present researches about Reverse Logistics, and Collaborative Environmental from Supply Chain, specially, giving priority to solid waste management from electroeletronic products, mainly promoting a scientific discussion with practical results.

Authors are invited to submit full research papers or posters on topics that might be interesting for (but no restricted to):

• Regulatory Instruments about Electroeletronic Reverse Logistics.
• Supply chain in collaborative environments
• Economic and Environmental Advantages in reason of Reverse Logistics strategies of electroeletronic industries.
• Recycling and reuse practices of electroeletronic industries.
• Software Development focusing on Reverse Logistics Operations;

Special Session Chair

Geraldo Cardoso de Oliveira Neto, UNINOVE, Brazil

Important Dates

Paper Submission

This special track of the MEDES conference will follow the general guidelines of the conference with respect to submission and paper selection. All submitted papers will be published in the MEDES conference proceedings, with the same opportunities for selection to journal special issues.

Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Please use the following templates to generate your PDF: MS Word and Latex.

Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper.

The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP.

Paper submission is available online the conference online submission system