Doctoral students at 31st European Conference on operational research in Athens (11.-14.07.2021)

Doctoral students Eduardo Alarcon (Project B1 - Integrated production and distribution planning in SD-MSCs) and Hani Shahmoradi-Moghadam (Project B2 - Decentralized Decision Making in SD-MSCs) recently presented at EURO 2021 (11-14 July, Athens, Greece). This conference is the largest and most important conference for Operational Research and Management Science (OR/MS) in Europe and is organized by the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO) and the Hellenic Operational Research Society (HELORS), with more than 40 years of history since the first meeting in 1975 in Brussels.

Eduardo Alarcon’s presentation was titled “A multiperiod location-inventory-routing problem considering mobile recycling units”. This contribution focuses on a dynamic location-inventory-routing problem involving small-scale, mobile, and modular recycling plants. Due to the miniaturization of these production units and their being embedded in standard containers, it is possible to relocate them from site to site at short notice, allowing for a more agile response to spatial and temporal waste generation.

Hani Shahmoradi-Moghadam’s presentation was titled “An adjustable decentralized robust optimization approach for mobile supply chains with shared factories”. In this contribution, to optimize production scheduling and the mobile factory routing problem under uncertainty, an adjustable decentralized robust optimization approach (ADROA) is proposed.