Dear all,

There will be a joint SORG/CORMSIS seminar on 6^th June (next Wednesday) at 14.00 in Room 3041, Building 2, Highfield campus, University of Southampton. The seminar will be presented by Richard Eglese from the Lancaster University. The title and abstract of the presentation are:

Title: Can OR transform the problem? Examples from vehicle routing

Abstract:

Three aspects of transforming the problem in the context of vehicle routing will be considered. The first concerns how a real situation is modelled. Logistics operations often exhibit features that present challenges in producing an appropriate model. The second aspect concerns the detailed formulation once the problem has been specified. Many vehicle routing problems can be formulated in different ways that can affect their ease of solution. Thirdly, new variants of vehicle routing problems will be considered where the objectives are not only economic, as is usual in conventional vehicle routing models, but consider other objectives such as those concerned with service and the environment, drawing on recent research in Green Logistics.

 

All are welcome!

 

Best Regards
Meko

Dr. Meko So

Research Facilitator

CORMSIS (Centre for Operational Research, Management Sciences and Information Systems)

Management School/Mathematics Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ

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