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SUMMARY:Dynamic Vehicle Routing: State-of-the-art and some Research Perspe
 ctives.
DTSTART:20160720T143000
DTEND:20160720T153000
DTSTAMP:20260916T011719Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Michel Gendreau\, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal\, Can
 ada. \nThe term "Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problems" (DVRP) refers to the l
 arge class of vehicle routing problems in which problem data is not comple
 tely available when the solution process is initiated and where solution d
 etermination (i.e.\, computation) and solution execution by the vehicles a
 re (at least\, partially) concurrent. This class of problems covers\, in p
 articular\, routing problems in which customer demands arrive over a long 
 period of time during which the vehicles are already under way to serve so
 me requests. A typical example of this situation occurs in the area of exp
 ress courier services. While classical\, static Vehicle Routing Problems h
 ave now been studied for more than 55 years\, the interest for DVRP's star
 ted in the late 1970's and has been steadily growing since then\, largely 
 due to the emergence of technological innovations\, such as cellular phone
 s\, on-board computers\, global positioning systems\, etc. This has led to
  the development of various models and solution approaches that are able t
 o solve effectively dynamic problems in a large variety of settings. In th
 is talk\, we will first review the main concepts relevant to the definitio
 n\, analysis\, and solution of DVRP's. Among other things\, we will explai
 n the differences and similarities between DVRP's and Stochastic Vehicle R
 outing Problems. We will then survey the most important application 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 research avenues 
 that the recent developments in Big Data technologies are opening.
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