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SUMMARY:Effectiveness and Equity in Pickup and Distribution Problems
DTSTART:20161209T121500
DTEND:20161209T131500
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dr Michal Tzur\, Industrial Engineering department\, Tel
  Aviv University\, Tel Aviv\, Israel\nWe study the logistic challenges of 
 a food bank that\, on a daily basis\, uses vehicles of limited capacity to
  collect donated food from suppliers in the food industry and distribute i
 t to welfare agencies. We model this problem as a routing – resource all
 ocation problem\, with the aim of maintaining equitable allocations to the
  different agencies\, while delivering overall as much food as possible. W
 e introduce an innovative objective function that satisfies desired proper
 ties of the allocation\, that is easy to compute and implement within a ma
 thematical formulation\, and that balances effectiveness and equity accept
 ably. We present an exact solution method\, upper bounds\, and a heuristic
  approach. Numerical experiments on several real-life and randomly generat
 ed datasets confirm that high-quality solutions may be obtained. Some impl
 ementation issues will be discussed\, concerning the integration of our so
 lution method into the information systems of the Israeli food bank with w
 hom we cooperate.\nJoint work with Ohad Eisenhandler\n\nBio : Michal Tzur 
 is a professor in the Industrial Engineering Department of the Faculty of 
 Engineering\, Tel Aviv University\, Israel. She received her Ph.D. in Mana
 gement Science from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University
  in the city of New York. She was a faculty member in the business school 
 of the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School) and a visiting faculty 
 member in the department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
  (IEMS) at Northwestern University. Her main research interests are in the
  areas of humanitarian logistics\, vehicle sharing systems\, vehicle routi
 ng and supply chain management. Since 2015 she serves as the president of 
 the Operations Research Society of Israel (ORSIS).\n 
LOCATION:GCA331 http://plan.epfl.ch/?lang=fr&room=GCA331
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