Keynote speakers

Abstract: In this presentation, I will present a typology of decision making problems and the different transformations used to solve these problems. I will show that optimization problems are degenerate decision making models that can be considered under some special conditions. Relaxing any of these special conditions can lead to situations that might not be solvable through meaningful transformations. I will provide some applications of these models.

 

Fouad Ben Abdelaziz is currently Professor at NEOMA Business School, France and the head of the MSc Program in Supply Chain Management. He was a Senior Fulbright scholar at the Rutgers Center for Operations Research, Rutgers University, NJ. He received his PhD in Operations and Decision Systems from Laval University, Canada. He has been working at the University of Tunis, American University of Beirut and the American University of Sharjah. He is a leading researcher in multi-objective stochastic optimization. He was among the first to propose solutions to the combinatorial multi-objective problems. Aside his publications in outstanding journals, like EJOR, FSS, JORS etc., he served as Co-Editor as well as Guest Editor of special issues for the European Journal of Operation Research and Fuzzy Sets and Systems. He was the chair of many international conferences.

Abstract: In this talk we will present the Inventory‐Routing Problem, namely the combination of two well‐known logistics problems: inventory management and vehicle routing. We first introduce the business environment where this problem arises, and review a few practical and theoretical aspects. We then present the state‐of‐the‐art algorithms used for the resolution of this difficult optimization problem. Some applications will be detailed, emphasizing on the gains obtained by the companies. We finally present other features that can be used to further integrate the problem and present some new ideas for its resolution.