Presented by Alex Fleischer, Optimization Expert (IBM) When trying to solve puzzles, practitioners train themselves on OR techniques (and other techniques). Puzzles are good ways for large and small companies to have OR practitioners from academia and consulting take a look at their specific issues (ROADEF / Euro challenges). Puzzles can support challenging students to […]

Traditional last-mile delivery planning purely based on optimization methods often lacks important real-life aspects and thus does not satisfy relevant operational requirements. Only experienced couriers have tacit knowledge about the delivery area and its customers, forcing them to deviate from planned routes. They know where to find good parking spots, when to best approach certain […]

Presented by Moulay Driss El Alaoui Faris, Energy Decision Scientist (Air Liquide) Embedding OR functionalities in operational tools to address a large class of problems requires designing the software architecture to provide the required modularity. In this talk we will present comparative design of component primitives (Nodes Arcs Boxes) in Python and Julia. A particular […]

Presented by Çağrı Doğuş Iyican (Trendyol Express) and Yahya Ertuğrul Geçkil (Trendyol Express) Trendyol Express (TEX) is the sub-branch in Trendyol that leads daily cargo operations. As in other cargo cases, it needs depots for storing, sorting and transporting to meet customer demand and manage seller supplies. In this context, TEX has two kinds of […]

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Professor Gilberto Montibeller (Loughborough University, UK; University Southern California, USA), Professor L. Alberto Franco (Loughborough University, UK; University del Pacifico, Peru) Emerging health threats, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, create extensive health, economic and social problems. A key challenge for health experts and policy makers is deciding how to balance and reduce the risk of […]