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SUMMARY:Dynamic Vehicle Routing
DTSTART:20160720T143000
DTEND:20160720T153000
DTSTAMP:20260501T055910Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Michel Gendreau - Professeur titulaire\nDépt. de mathématiqu
 es et de génie industriel\nB.Com. (McGill)\, M.Sc. (U. de Montréal)\, Ph
 .D. (U. de Montréal)\nThe term "Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problems" (DVRP) 
 refers to the large class of vehicle routing problems in which problem dat
 a is not completely available when the solution process is initiated and w
 here solution determination (i.e.\, computation) and solution execution by
  the vehicles are (at least\, partially) concurrent. This class of problem
 s covers\, in particular\, routing problems in which customer demands arri
 ve over a long period of time during which the vehicles are already under 
 way to serve some requests.\nA typical example of this situation occurs in
  the area of express courier services. While classical\, static Vehicle Ro
 uting Problems have now been studied for more than 55 years\, the interest
  for DVRP's started in the late 1970's and has been steadily growing since
  then\, largely due to the emergence of technological innovations\, such a
 s cellular phones\, on-board computers\, global positioning systems\, etc.
  This has led to the development of various models and solution approaches
  that are able to solve effectively dynamic problems in a large variety of
  settings. In this talk\, we will first review the main concepts relevant 
 to the definition\, analysis\, and solution of DVRP's. Among other things\
 , we will explain the differences and similarities between DVRP's and Stoc
 hastic Vehicle Routing Problems. We will then survey the most important ap
 plication areas and the main solution methods that have been proposed for 
 DVRP's. The last part of the talk will be devoted to a discussion of the r
 esearch avenues that the recent developments in Big Data technologies are 
 opening.
LOCATION:GC C2 413 http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=fr&room=gc+c2+413
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