{"id":521,"date":"2019-06-11T09:09:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T09:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/?page_id=521"},"modified":"2019-07-09T07:56:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T07:56:52","slug":"working-group-meeting-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/working-group-meeting-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Group Meeting 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2nd conference of the EURO\nWorking Group on the Practice of Operations Research <\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bologna, March 11-12, 2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/06\/MG_7966.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/06\/MG_7966.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/06\/MG_7966-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/06\/MG_7966-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/06\/MG_7966-357x238.jpg 357w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Ruth Kaufman (EWG-POR Chairman) and Matteo Pozzi (OPTIT)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The second conference\nof the EURO working group on Practice of OR ended successfully: the two-day\nmeeting brought together more than 130 practitioners and academics of Operation\nResearch and Machine Learning to discuss on \u201c<em>OPERATION RESEARCH MEETS MACHINE LEARNING. How to get\nthe most of both worlds to achieve excellent Decision Support System\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event\nrepresented a strategic meeting place for comparing best practices and new\nideas of technologies on how to transform data into a business value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outstanding\nspeakers were numerous, among them Mauricio Resende, principal scientist of\nAmazon, and Raffaele Maccioni, founder and CEO of ACTOR Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/04\/OR_meets_ML_abstract_booklet_final.pdf\">book of abstracts<\/a> and the following presentations authorised for publication provide an overview of the event:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/06\/ACT-OR_Euro-OR-Meets-Machine-Learning-12-March-2019-rev.0.02-u23b0y2019p17542.pdf\">From data to decisions. The challenges of the digitalization and the franz edelman award experience<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/06\/ACT-OR_Euro-OR-Meets-Machine-Learning-12-March-2019-rev.0.02-u23b0y2019p17542.pdf\"> <\/a>by Raffaele Maccioni, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.act-operationsresearch.com\/\">ACTOR<\/a><\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/06\/IBM_bike-sharing-system-optimization.pdf\">Optimizing a bike sharing system<\/a><\/em> by Damien Blanchon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/fr-fr\">IBM France<\/a><\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/06\/MindIT-EML.pdf\">Empirical Model Learning. An Industrial Point of View<\/a><\/em> by Alessio Bonfietti, <a href=\"https:\/\/minditsolutions.it\/\">MIND IT<\/a><\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/06\/OPTIT_EWGPOR-Bologna-Pozzi.pdf\">Machine Learning and Optimisation. An ongoing journey<\/a><\/em> by Matteo Pozzi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.optit.net\/\">Optit<\/a><\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/06\/ORTEC-2019-03-11-Bologna-Attention-Learn-to-Solve-Routing-Problems-public.pdf\">Attention, Learn to Solve Routing Problems!<\/a><\/em> by Wouter Kool, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ortec.com\">ORTEC<\/a><\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/06\/nitin_ahuja_ewg_por_bologna_march_2019_final.pdf\">Using machine learning to help solve online vehicle routing problems<\/a><\/em> by Nitin Ahuja, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ptvgroup.com\/\">PTV Group<\/a><\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/06\/UNIV-LISBON-presentation_TaniaRamos.pdf\">No Routes Wasted for Waste Collection: Exploring real-time information through ML techniques to improve waste collection<\/a><\/em> by T\u00e2nia Ramos, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ulisboa.pt\/\">Universidade de Lisboa<\/a><\/li><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/06\/POR_2019_website.pdf\">Optimization via Machine Learning-based Simulation: Application to Modern Call Centers Managemen<\/a>t<\/em> by Stefano Gualandi, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unipv.eu\/site\/home.html\">Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Pavia<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The parallel sessions held on Tuesday 13<sup>th<\/sup> were\nfocused on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Does the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) make European.\u00a0 Analytics different from the rest of the world?<\/em> Moderator: Joaquim Gromicho, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ortec.com\">ORTEC<\/a><\/li><li><em>How does OR-based DSS benefit from ML technology?<\/em> Moderator: Sofiane Oussedik, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/fr-fr\">IBM France<\/a><\/li><li><em>Optimizing from data: will ML marry OR?<\/em> Moderator: Daniele Vigo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unibo.it\/\">University of Bologna<\/a><\/li><li><em>What does the analytics maturity curve look like? What is it likely to become?<\/em> Moderator: Matteo Pozzi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.optit.net\/\">Optit<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, the conference was an opportunity to take stock of the relevant initiatives in OR and ML in the Emilia-Romagna Region (Italy) thanks to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Marina\nSilverii, Director of ASTER (Bologna, Italy) who presented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.aster.it\/en\/video\/big-data-technopole-bologna-hub&amp;sa=D&amp;source=hangouts&amp;ust=1559288309803000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEqam33ynh204CVmKmG4tNOuHVbuQ\">an\noverview of the regional experiences, laboratories and industrial and research\nprojects<\/a><\/li><li>Rita Cucchiara, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consorzio-cini.it\/index.php\/it\/artificial-intelligence-and-intelligent-systems\">Cini\nNational Lab AIIS<\/a> and Unimore<\/li><li>Daniele Vigo, AIRO Associazione\nItaliana di Ricerca Operativa, University of Bologna and Optit<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Together with the EWG on Practice of OR, the\nconference has been supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/it-it\/?lnk=m\">IBM<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.act-operationsresearch.com\/\">ACTOR<\/a>,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.airo.org\/index.php\/it\/\">AIRO<\/a>,\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fico.com\/en\/solutions\/analytics-and-optimization-for-manufacturing\">FICO<\/a>,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.optit.net\/en\/\">OPTIT<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ortec-it.it\/\">ORTEC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ptvgroup.com\/en\/\">PTV Group<\/a>,\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazionegolinelli.it\/it\">Fondazione\nGolinelli<\/a>, under the auspices of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aster.it\/en\">ASTER<\/a> and of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dei.unibo.it\/en\/department\">Department\nof Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering of the University of\nBologna<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some pictures of presenters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Ahuja_MG_8115.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"545\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/working-group-meeting-2019\/ahuja_mg_8115\/\" class=\"wp-image-545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Ahuja_MG_8115.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Ahuja_MG_8115-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Ahuja_MG_8115-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Ahuja_MG_8115-357x238.jpg 357w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Nitin Ahuja &#8211; <br>PTV group<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Bonfietti_MG_8092.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"546\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/working-group-meeting-2019\/bonfietti_mg_8092\/\" class=\"wp-image-546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Bonfietti_MG_8092.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Bonfietti_MG_8092-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Bonfietti_MG_8092-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Bonfietti_MG_8092-357x238.jpg 357w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Alessio Bonfietti &#8211; <br>MIND IT<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Gualandi_MG_8150.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"547\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/working-group-meeting-2019\/gualandi_mg_8150\/\" class=\"wp-image-547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Gualandi_MG_8150.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Gualandi_MG_8150-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Gualandi_MG_8150-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Gualandi_MG_8150-357x238.jpg 357w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Stefon Gulandi &#8211; University of Pavia<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Kool_MG_8343.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"548\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/working-group-meeting-2019\/kool_mg_8343\/\" class=\"wp-image-548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Kool_MG_8343.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Kool_MG_8343-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Kool_MG_8343-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Kool_MG_8343-357x238.jpg 357w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Wouter Kool &#8211; <br>ORTEC<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Ramos_MG_8241.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"549\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/working-group-meeting-2019\/ramos_mg_8241\/\" class=\"wp-image-549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Ramos_MG_8241.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Ramos_MG_8241-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Ramos_MG_8241-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Ramos_MG_8241-357x238.jpg 357w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Tania Ramos &#8211;<br>University of Lissabon<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Thalen_MG_8279.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"550\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/working-group-meeting-2019\/thalen_mg_8279\/\" class=\"wp-image-550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Thalen_MG_8279.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Thalen_MG_8279-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Thalen_MG_8279-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Thalen_MG_8279-357x238.jpg 357w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Bj\u00f6rn Thal\u00e9n &#8211; <br>Boeing<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2nd conference of the EURO Working Group on the Practice of Operations Research Bologna, March 11-12, 2019 The second conference of the EURO working group on Practice of OR ended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-521","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/521\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/or-in-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}