VIP’08 Final program

VIP’08 - Final Program, Abstracts, Participants (pdf)

Thursday June 12

1200-1230 Opening Session
1200-1230 Geir Hasle:  Introduction - Vehicle Routing in Practice

1230-1330 Lunch

1330-1500 New VRP Variants I  (Chair: Mikael Rönnquist)
1330-1400 Bruce Golden: The Consistent Vehicle Routing Problem
1400-1430 Richard Eglese: Vehicle Routing and the Green Agenda
1430-1500 Mikael Rönnquist: Synchronized vehicle routing

1500-1530 Coffee

1530-1730 New VRP Variants II (Chair: Frederic Semet)
1530-1600 Michel Gendreau: Solving the Single-Vehicle Routing Problem  with Stochastic Demands
1600-1630 Oli Madsen: The Double TSP with Multiple Stacks - Heuristic Solution Approaches
1630-1700 Dominique Feillet: Vehicle routing problems with alternative paths
1700-1730 Frederic Semet: New hybrid approaches for a location-routing problem

1800-1930 Dinner

Friday June 13

              0830-1000        Applications  (Chair: Kenneth Sörensen)
              0830-0900        Johan Oppen:  Livestock Collection
              0900-0930        Wout Dullaert:  Vehicle routing methodologies to support costing and pricing decisions
              0930-1000        Kenneth Sörensen: A multiobjective distribution problem for parcel delivery at TNT

1000-1030 Coffee

1030-1230 Vessel Routing (Chair: Lars Magnus Hvattum)
1030-1100 Truls Flatberg:  Routing problems in maritime logistics
1100-1130 Henrik Andersson: The LNG Inventory Routing Problem with Pick-up Contracts
1130-1200 Frank Hennig: Optimizing a Maritime Split Pickup and Split Delivery Problem
1200-1230 Lars M. Hvattum: When feasibility of routes is difficult to determine: an example from maritime bulk shipping

1230-1330 Lunch

1330-1500 Rich VRP  (Chair: Andreas Reinholz)
1330-1400 Pierre Dejax: Multiperiodic VRP models and hybrid solution techniques for closed loops-reverse logistics
1400-1430 Jens Gottlieb:  Solving Real-World Vehicle Scheduling and Routing Problems
1430-1500 Andreas Reinholz:  A Process Oriented Modelling Concept for Rich Vehicle Routing Problems

1500-1530 Coffee

1530-1730 Fleet Composition (Chair: Wout Dullaert)
1530-1600 Arild Hoff  Industrial Aspects and Literature Survey: Fleet  Composition and Routing
1600-1630 Yuichi Nagata:  A Powerful Route Minimization Heuristic for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
1630-1700 Morten Smedsrud: A Route Minimization Heuristic for Rich Vehicle Routing Problems
1700-1730 Wout Dullaert:  Adaptive Diversification Metaheuristic for the Fleet Size and Mix Vehicle Routing Problem  with Time Windows

1800-1930 Dinner

Saturday June 14

              0900-1000        Aggregation and Decomposition (Chair: Christian Prins)
              0900-0930        Eivind Nilssen:  Aggregation based on road topologies for large scale VRPs
              0930-1000        Christian Prins: The route-first cluster-second principle in vehicle routing

1000-1030 Coffee

1030-1130 Supporting Methods  (Chair: Arne Løkketangen)
1030-1100 Oddvar Kloster: Calculating time-dependent travel times for VRPs
1100-1130 Arne Løkketangen: The use of distance measures in routing problems

1130-1230 Panel and Closure

1230-1330 Lunch