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  • First Friday Webinars – Julia and Python – differences and features comparison on an example use case

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    Presented by Moulay Driss El Alaoui Faris, Energy Decision Scientist (Air Liquide) Embedding OR functionalities in operational tools to address a large class of problems requires designing the software architecture to provide the required modularity. In this talk we will present comparative design of component primitives (Nodes Arcs Boxes) in Python and Julia. A particular […]

  • First Friday Webinars – Optimization Approaches in e-commerce: Network Design & Marketplace Dispatching

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    Presented by Çağrı Doğuş Iyican (Trendyol Express) and Yahya Ertuğrul Geçkil (Trendyol Express) Trendyol Express (TEX) is the sub-branch in Trendyol that leads daily cargo operations. As in other cargo cases, it needs depots for storing, sorting and transporting to meet customer demand and manage seller supplies. In this context, TEX has two kinds of […]

  • Working Group meeting 2021

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    See the working group meeting page. For registration go to our EventBrite page

  • First Friday Webinars – Improving Global Risk Management of Emerging Health Threats with Facilitated Decision Analysis

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    Professor Gilberto Montibeller (Loughborough University, UK; University Southern California, USA), Professor L. Alberto Franco (Loughborough University, UK; University del Pacifico, Peru) Emerging health threats, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, create extensive health, economic and social problems. A key challenge for health experts and policy makers is deciding how to balance and reduce the risk of […]

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    First Friday Webinars – OR in Practice

    Thanks to all great developments in mathematics and computing power, we are able to solve more complex problems within a reasonable amount of time. Machine learning and other AI-techniques can boost the power of OR. But are we also able to explain the outcome to the industry? Optimal is not always logical, which leads to […]

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    First Friday Webinars – Recent developments of real-time train scheduling optimization in the practice

    Trains running through railway networks are monitored and guided in real time by train dispatchers. They control train movements by taking various relevant decisions, such as where trains should pass and meet each other, when trains should arrive or depart from stations, which routes they must take, etc. These decisions become crucial when one or […]

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    EURO 2021

    In addition to the general invite we would also like to especially recommend the "Practice of OR" track that the working group organizes and that is especially aimed at practitioners of OR. More details on this track will be published later.   EURO 2021 is the largest and most important conference for Operational Research and […]

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    First Friday Webinars – The Intersection of Operational Research and Public Communication

    The Intersection of Operational Research and Public Communication during the Covid-19 Pandemic About this event In May 2020, I joined the group Independent SAGE. At the time, I thought I was signing up to one or two public meetings on YouTube, but instead our profile grew and we discovered there was a large public appetite […]

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    First Friday Webinar – Operational Research and Quantum Computing: can they join forces?

    We experience the benefits of classical computing every day. However, there are challenges that today’s systems would never be able to solve. To stand a chance at solving some of these problems, we need a new kind of computing: Quantum Computing. During this session we will explore together what quantum computers are about, and how […]

  • First Friday Webinar – Tackling supply chain disruptions in pandemics – learning from humanitarian logistics

    Humanitarian logistics plays an important part in responding to disasters, crisis, but also epidemics and pandemics. This talk is about what we can learn from humanitarian logistics in tackling supply chain disruptions in pandemics. The talk also gives examples and shares results from current research projects on the COVID-19 pandemic, and also discusses the challenges […]