1.COMEX Annual Workshop 2014
Date : December 4th 2014
Location : ULB, campus Plaine, building NO, 5th floor.
Program:
10.00 Kenneth Sörensen (UA): “Metaphors considered harmful”
10.40 Ward Passchyn (KULeuven): “Evaluating the emission reduction potential by scheduling locks on inland waterways”
11.20 Pierre Mistiaen (UCL): “A Resolution of an Express Shipment Service Network Design with Branch and Price”
12.00 Yves Molenbruch (Uhasselt): “A multi-directional local search metaheuristic for a bi-objective dial-a-ride problem”
14.00 Elisabeth Rodríguez Heck (ULg): “Quadratizations of pseudo-Boolean functions”
14.40 San Pham (KULeuven): “FO(.) and Mathematical Programming”
15.10 Nguyen Dang (KULeuven): “The Second International Nurse Rostering Competition”
16.00 Enrico Gorgone (ULB-GOM): “Lagrangian relaxation for the time-dependent combined network design and routing problem”
16.40 Leslie Pérez Cáceres (ULB – IRIDIA): “irace: Analysis and recent developments”
2. QuantOM-COMEX conference 2014
(registration by email to [email protected] is not compulsory but would be appreciated)
Speaker: Gilbert Laporte (Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management, HEC Montréal)
When: Monday, the 24th of June 2014, 2pm
Where: HEC-Management School of the University of Liège, 14 rue Louvrex, 4000 Liège
Title: Minimizing Greenhouse Emissions in Vehicle Routing
Abstract:
The Vehicle Routing Problem holds a central place in distribution management. In the classical version of the problem the aim is to distribute goods to a set of geographically dispersed customers under a cost minimization objective and various side constraints. In recent years a number of researchers have started investigating the joint minimization of cost and greenhouse emissions in vehicle routing, giving rise to the so-called “Pollution-Routing Problem”. Whereas cost depends primarily on distance travelled, emissions are a function of distance, vehicle load, speed and a variety of other factors. The aim of this talk is to describe recent research results in this context.
About the speaker:
Gilbert Laporte, Ph.D., MSRC
CIRRELT and Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management
HEC Montréal
3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine
Montréal, Canada H3T 2A7
Canada Research Chair : http://www.hec.ca/chairedistributique
Bio sketch: http://neumann.hec.ca/chairedistributique/gl.shtml
Google Scholar profile :
http://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=o4n0KvgAAAAJ&hl=fr&oi=ao
E-mail: [email protected]
3. The 20th edition of the Belgian Mathematical Programming 2014
Location: La Roche-En-Ardenne
Date: Thursday 24, April 2014
Program:
09.30 – 10.30: Welcome Coffee
10.30 – 11.00: Behrouz Babaki, “Constrained Clustering: approximate and exact approaches”
11.00 – 11.30: Wim Vancroonenburg, “The patient admission problem”
11.30 – 12.00: Jo Devriendt, “The IDP system: modelling optimization problems in first order logic”
12.00 – 12.30: San Pham, “Knowledge representation, constraints and heuristics”
12.30 – 13.30: Lunch
13.30 – 14.00: Free Time
14.00: Room keys are available at the reception desk
14.00 – 16.00: Ruediger Schultz, “Stochastic Programming – Some Classical Basics and Recent Developments”
16.00 – 16.30: Coffee Break
16.30 – 17.00: Sébastien MATHIEU, “A quantitative analysis of the effect of flexible loads on reserve markets”
17.00 – 17.30: Julien Dewez, “Geometric lower bound on the extension complexity of polytopes”
17.30 – 18.00: COMEX admin. Meeting
18.30 – 19.30: Cocktail
19.30: Dinner
Friday 25, April 2014
8.00 – 09.00: Breakfast
9.00 – 09.30: Claudio Telha, “Competitive analysis of on-line algorithms: Applications to Operations Research”
9.30 – 10.00: Abdelrahaman Aly, “Securely solving Standard Network Flow Problems with Multi-party Computation”
10.00: Handing over of the room keys at the reception desk
10.00 – 10.30: Luciano Porretta, “A Column Generation Approach for Loss of Heterozygosity Problem”
10.30 – 11.00: Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.30: Adrien Taylor, “Assessing the Performance of First-order Algorithms: a Convex Optimization Approach”
11.30 – 12.00: Elisabeth Rodríguez Heck, “Compact quadratizations of nonlinear binary optimization problems”
12.00 – 12.30: Damien Gerard, “On the convergence of nonconvex QCQP”
12.30 – 13.30: Lunch
13.30 – 14.00: Free Time
14.00 – 16.00: Bernard Gendron, “Decomposition Methods for Network Design”
16.00 – 16.30: Coffee Break
16.30 – 17.00: Alessandro Hill
17.00: End of the meeting