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3053. How to “locate” Mathematics in everyday life
Invited abstract in session WD-12: YW4OR_4, stream WISDOM - Women in OR.
Wednesday, 14:30-16:00Room: 13 (building: 116)
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Serena Fugaro
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| Institute for Applications of Calculus, National Research Council of Italy |
Abstract
At the beginning of my academic career, I was often unable to answer the question "What is the use of mathematics?" convincingly , and as a mathematician, I felt rather frustrated. Then, out of pure curiosity, I took a course in Operational Research during my Master's degree and found the first concrete applications of mathematics to real-world problems. Today, thanks to my engagement in technology transfer alongside research, I could go on and on about the location of mathematics in everyday life. In particular, the word "location" is not accidental: in fact, over the last three years, my research activity has focused on Discrete Facility Location, with the aim of improving decision making in complex scenarios resulting from administrative, managerial and operational needs. Actually, the decisions involved in Facility Location are inherently strategic, and this has led us to define problems characterised by many, potentially conflicting objectives, as this talk will detail. Indeed, we have introduced a novel class of Multi-Objective Covering Location problems and an original Multi-Objective Facility Location problem in Waste Management, arising from a case study for the city of Sheffield. In both cases, we derived ad hoc mathematical formulations and obtained accurate representations or approximations of the arising Pareto Sets. We also conducted a systematic literature review which allowed us to highlight the research gaps in the literature on Multi-Objective Facility Location, and to derive a research agenda to suggest concrete guidelines for both researchers and practitioners interested in this area.
Keywords
- Location
Status: accepted
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