Activities

PhD Program

PhD program in Analytics for Economics and Management (AEM) - University of Brescia

The PhD program in Analytics for Economics and Management (AEM) aims at training high profile scientists and experts, able to apply analytical and computational tools to data to the goal of making complex decisions in Economics and Management.

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Up to 2017 the group has been involved in the PhD program in Analytics for Economics and Business (AEB) - at the University of Bergamo and University of Brescia.

Seminars

2019

28 Jun - Prof. Jean-François Côté dell'Université Laval (Québec City, Canada), “A Branch-and-Cut Algorithm for the Multi-Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows”

29 Apr - Prof. Immanuel Bomze, Department of Statistics and Operations Research University of Vienna, “Robust clustering in social networks”

3 Apr - Prof. Roberto Roberti, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, “The Team Orienteering Problem with Overlaps: an Application in Cash Logistics”

29 Jan - Prof. Demetrio Laganà, Università della Calabria, “An Exact Solution Framework for Multi-Trip Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows”

17 Jan - Prof. Stephan Meisel, University of Muenster,Germany, “Online Learning of a Universal Policy for Energy Storage Management”

2018

18 Dec - Prof. Ángel Corberán, University of Valencia, Spain, "Drone arc routing problems"

22 Oct - Prof. Alberto Ceselli, Università di Milano, "Data driven detectors of good MIP decompositions"

18 Oct - Prof. Roberto Montemanni, IDSIA Lugano, Svizzera, "Machine Learning and Monte Carlo sampling for the Probabilistic Orienteering Problem"

19 Sep - Peter Matl, University of Vienna, Austria, "Design of Flexible Service Territories for Simple, Balanced and Consistent Routing"

20 July - Prof. Leandro C. Coelho, Faculty of Administration Sciences, Laval University, Québec, Canada, "City logistics: measuring traffic, optimizing routes, minimizing emissions"

17 July - Prof. Jeffrey Ohlmann, University of Iowa (USA), "Identifying Causal Patterns of Binary Events in Process Event Logs"

19 June - Prof. Jean-François Côté, UniversitéLaval, Québec City (Québec), Canada, “A computational Study on Methods to Increasethe Offer of Time Windows in Time Window Assignment Problems”

14 June - Prof. Justin Goodson, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis (USA), “Dynamic time Window Allocation and Sizing for service Routing”

11 May - Prof. Nicolò cesa-Bianchi, Università degli Studi di Milano, “A brief introduction to the theory of machine learning”

27 March - Prof. Frédéric Semet, Ecole Centrale de Lille, Lille, France, “Adaptive large neighborhood search for multicommodity VRP”

27 March - Prof. Diego Cattaruzza, Ecole Centrale de Lille, Lille, France, “Computation of individual trajectories of a fleet of robots under connectivity constraints”

23 March - Prof. Laurence Wolsey, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE). Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, “On the Interplay between .Simple Mixed Integer Programs.and Lot-Sizing”

2017

3 November - Prof. Justin Goodson, Saint Louis University, USA, “Electric Vehicle Routing with Uncertain Charging Station Availability & Dynamic Decision-Making”

28 September - Prof. Stephan Meisel, University of Münster, Germany, “Risk-Averse Stochastic Path Detection”

13 September - Prof. Fabien Tricoire, University of Vienna, “Investing in logistics facilities today to reduce routing emissions tomorrow”

9 June - Prof. Michael Hewitt, Loyola University, Chicago, USA, “The Continuous Time Service Network Design Problem and Extensions”

10 May - Prof. Alain Hertz, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada, “Tabu serach for the RNA partial degradation problem”

4 May - Prof. Justin Goodson, Saint Louis University, USA, “Route-Based Markov Decision Processes for Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problems”

2 May - Prof. Thomas Stidsen, Technical University of Denmark, “EURO and IFORS conference scheduling and multi-objective optimization”

6 April - Dr. George Ninikas, ORTEC- Operations Research Technology, "Optimization challenges and real-life applications"

26 January - Prof. Leandro C. Coelho, Faculty of Administration Sciences, Laval University, Québec, Canada, "Traffic and the city: how to plan for better distribution?"

2016

20 November - Prof. Demetrio Laganà, Università della Calabria, Italy, "A cyclic inbound inventory routing problem in a lean production system"

3 November - Prof. Kenneth Sörensen, Univerity of Antwerp, Belgium, "Metaphor-based metaheuristics: who's to blame?"

16-19 October - Prof. Stefan Irnich, University of Mainz, Germany, "Social Network Analysis and Community Detection by Decomposing a Graph into Relaxed Cliques"

September 22 - Prof. Stefan Meisel, University of Munich, Germany, “Introduction to stochastic dynamic programming with applications in logistics and energy”

September 21 - Prof. Thibaut Vidal, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, “Linear-time Split algorithm and applications”

April 11 - Prof. Justin Goodson, Saint Louis University, USA, "Offline-Online Approximate Dynamic Programming for Dynamic Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Requests"

February 17 - Elena Ferndàndez, Universitat Politècnica De Catalunya, “On the Collaboration Uncapacitated Arc Routing Problem” - Abstract

February 4 - Maurizio Bruglieri, Politecnico di Milano, "The Vehicle Relocation Problem for a One-way Electric Car-sharing Service" - Abstract

2015

November 18 - Dominique Feillet, Ecole des Minnes de Saint Etienne, “Vehicle routing in road networks” - Abstract

September 24 - Wlodzimierz Ogryczak, Warsaw University of Technology, "Operating bike sharing systems: problems and solution methods"

June 23 - Prof. Michael Hewitt, Loyola University of Chicago, USA, “Planning and scheduling models that recognize human learning”

April 16 - Marielle Christiansen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, "Supply Chain Optimization in Maritime Transportation"

April 10 - Michel Bierlaire, Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (CH), “Demand-based scheduling”

February 24 - Guy Desaulniers, École Polytechnique de Montrèal, Canada, “The Vehicle Routing Problem with Hard Time Windows and Stochastic Service Time”

2014

February-December - Dennis Weyland, PhD Univesity of Lugano, Switzerland, “On-demand public transportation system”

January-July - Xiaolan Chen, PhD University of Hull, UK, “The inventory routing problem”

2013

October 1 - Wlodzimierz Ogryczak, Warsaw University of Technology, “Stochastic Dominance and Polyhedral Risk Measures”

September 24 - Michal Tzur, Tel Aviv University, "Operating bike sharing systems: problems and solution methods"

May 14 - Jeffrey Ohlmann, University of Iowa (USA), "Pharmaceutial Sales Routing"

April 16 - Jeffrey Ohlmann, University of Iowa (USA), “A Rollout Policy Framework with Application to Vehicle Routing”

March 12 - Luca Maria Gambardella, University of Applied Science of Southern Switzerland, “Ant Colony Optimisation for Real World Vehicle Routing Problems: from Theory to Applications.”

January 29 - Silvano Martello, University of Bologna, “Assignment Problems: At the Roots of Combinatorial Optimization”

January 15 - Zsolt Tuza, Rényi Institute, Budapest and University of Pannoia, Veszprém, “The Graph-Bin Packing Problem”

2012

November 22 - Dominique Feillet, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France, "How the ageing of population and the evolution of healthcare organizations raise some new and nice vehicle routing problems"

July 4 - Nicola Secomandi, Carnegie Mellon University, "Relaxations of approximate linear programs for the real option management of commodity Motzkin decompositions of closed convex sets"

May 30 - Martin Savelsbergh, University of Newcastle, Australia, "Incremental network design problems"

May 30 - Natashia Boland, University of Newcastle, Australia, "Challenges in supply chian planning: problems in maintenance schedule optimization"

May 9 - Ola Jabali, Université de Montréal, Canada, "A continuous approximation model for the fleet composition problem"

2011

December 13 - Gerhard Wäscher, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany, "Planning Issues and Solution Approaches in Manual Order Picking Systems"

October 13 - Stefan Irnich, University of Mainz, Germany, "Column generation for inventory routing problems"

August 29 - Snezana Mitrovic-Minic, Simon Fraser University, Surrey, Canada, "Routing and scheduling of a heterogeneous fleet of re-configurable ferries: a model and a matheuristics"

February 23 - José Viegas, MIT, Portugal, "Shared taxis: concept and key optimization and policy questions"

February 2 - Zsolt Tuza, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, "Pickup and delivery problems with split loads"

2010

Noveber 30 - Daniele Vigo, Università di Bologna, "City logistics"

October 24 - Zsolt Tuza, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, "Pickup and delivery problems with split loads"

May 10 - Angel Corberan, University of Valencia, "Arc routing problems with profits"

April 18 - Alain Hertz, Université de Montréal, "The capacitated team orienteering problem with split deliveries"

February 28 - Lap Mui Ann Chan, USA, "Worst-Case Analysis of the Double Frequency Policy in the Single Link Problem"

February 27 - Michel Gendreau, Université de Montréal, "The split delivery vehicle routing problem with exclusion constraints"

February 27 - Dominique Feillet, Université de Montréal, "The split delivery vehicle routing problem with exclusion constraints"

2009

June 3 - Stefan Irnich, University of Mainz, "Column generation for inventory routing"

May 3 - Gabor Nagy, University of Kent, "The pickup and delivery vehicle routing problem with split deliveries"

April 30 - François Vanderbeck, Université de Bordeaux 1

April 7 - Martin Savelsbergh, Georgia Institute of Technology, "The vehicle routing problem with route balancing"

April 3 - Bjarni Kristiansson, Maximal Software, inc, "Optimization modeling with MPL"

March 1 - Alain Hertz, Université de Montréal, "Routing problems with profits and split deliveries"

February 28 - Sofie Coene, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, "The bi-objective traveling salesman with profits"