Séminaire SCSS - Maria Servaes (Université de Gand, Belgique)

Lieu : Campus de Lille 
Heure : 13h00-14h30
Intervenante : Maria Servaes (Université de Gand, Belgique) 

Résumé : Abstract Last-mile delivery is regarded as an essential, yet challenging problem in city logistics. One of the most common initiatives, implemented to streamline and support last-mile activities, is satellite depots. These intermediate logistics facilities are used by companies in urban areas to decouple last-mile activities from the rest of the distribution chain.  Establishing a business model that considers different stakeholders' interests and balances the economic and operational dimensions, is still a challenge. 
In this seminar, we will introduce a novel problem that broadly covers such setting, where the delivery to customers is managed through satellite depots and the interplay and the hierarchical relation between the problem agents are modeled in a bi-level framework.
Two mathematical models and an exact solution approach, properly customized for our problem, will be presented, and extensive computational experiments on benchmark instances and a real case study discussed.  Finally, we will shed light on future research directions on how the proposed approach can be extended for other relevant problem classes.

Biographie : Maria Elena Bruni is an Associate Professor in Operations Research at the University of Calabria and a collaborating member of the CIRRELT, Montreal. She received a Ph.D. in Operations Research at the University of Calabria and a M.S. in Public Economy from the University of Sapienza (Rome). Her research activity focuses on designing solution methods for combinatorial problems under uncertainty and risk, with applications mainly in scheduling, routing, and healthcare. She is co-author of more than 90 papers accepted in refereed journals and author of three Springer book chapters. She received the best paper prize from the IMA Journal of Management Mathematics journal in 2016 and the best poster awards for the ICORES conferences in 2018, 2019, and 2022. She is associate editor of Networks, Sustainability, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Data Envelopment Analysis and Decision Science, International Journal of Research in Industrial Engineering.