Latest Past Events
First Friday Webinars – Improving Global Risk Management of Emerging Health Threats with Facilitated Decision Analysis
OnlineProfessor 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 […]
First Friday Webinars – OR in Practice
Thanks to all great developments in mathematics and computing power, we are able to solve more complex problems within a reasonable amount of time. Machine learning and other AI-techniques can boost the power of OR. But are we also able to explain the outcome to the industry? Optimal is not always logical, which leads to […]
First Friday Webinars – Recent developments of real-time train scheduling optimization in the practice
Trains running through railway networks are monitored and guided in real time by train dispatchers. They control train movements by taking various relevant decisions, such as where trains should pass and meet each other, when trains should arrive or depart from stations, which routes they must take, etc. These decisions become crucial when one or […]