OperA seminar: Claudia Archetti

OperA seminar series

On Wednesday, April 19, at 16.00, there will be a seminar by Claudia Archetti. Since September 2021, she is Full Professor in Operations Research at ESSEC Business School in Paris. Previously, she was Associate Professor at the University of Brescia. She teaches courses for undergraduate, master and PhD students in OR and logistics. Her main areas of the scientific activity are: models and algorithms for vehicle routing problems; mixed integer programming models for the minimization of the sum of inventory and transportation costs in logistic networks; exact and heuristic algorithms for supply-chain management; re-optimization of combinatorial optimization problems. Claudia Archetti is an internationally leading expert on modeling and solving inventory and home delivery optimization problems. Claudia currently serves as co-Editor in Chief of Networks, Associate Editor of the EURO Journal of Computational Optimization and member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Operational Research.

The talk will be about:

Title: Reinforcement Learning Approaches for the Orienteering Problem with Stochastic and Dynamic Release Dates

Abstract: We study Orienteering Problem with Stochastic and Dynamic Release Dates (DOP-rd) where a single and uncapacitated vehicle is serving customer requests with stochastic and dynamic release dates, representing the time at which parcels are available for distribution. The objective is to maximize the number of requests served within the deadline. We model the problem as a Markov decision process and present two approximation approaches for its solutions, where the distribution strategy is learned from Monte-Carlo simulation.

To sign up for this seminar, please send an email to t.oosterwijk@vu.nl.