Philips Employing the Bid Optimization Strategic System (BOSS)

Philips Employing the Bid Optimization Strategic System (BOSS) Developed by the MS Department About Philips The Royal Dutch Philips Electronics Ltd. (Philips) is one of the world’s largest electronic companies. As a multinational company operating on a global scale, its work units and business partners form a very complicated transportation network stretching over the world. This network involves shipping, air and land routes.

Research Paper Accepted by the AAAI Conference 2010

A variable neighbourhood search (VNS) heuristic for the traveling salesman problem with pickup and delivery (TSPPD) executed in a last-in-first-out (LIFO) fashion has been ably developed by Hu QIN, a PhD student studying in the MS Department. The VNS heuristic involves several search operators based on the tree data structure. Experiments show that this heuristic is superior to the current best heuristics for this problem in terms of both solution quality and computing time.

Research Trends in Inventory Management and Modeling 11th ISIR Summer School / Neuchatel, CH /August 19-23, 2013

Dear Colleagues, It is our pleasure to inform you that the preparations for the 11th ISIR Summer School in August, 2013 are going fine. However there are a few open places, so the organizers can still accept a few applications. See further details at the homepage of the Summer School: http://www2.unine.ch/isir-summer2013 The objective of the summer school is to provide a place for Ph.D. students to present their research work and to discuss various aspects with fellow students and senior researchers.

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