Gilbert
Laporte (HEC Montréal, Canada)
Short
Biography
Gilbert
Laporte obtained his Ph.D. in Operations Research at the London School of
Economics in 1975. He is Professor of Operations Research at HEC Montréal,
Director of the Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management, and adjunct
Professor at
Molde
University
College
, the
University
of
Bilkent
, the
University
of
Alberta
and Université Laval. He is also a member of the Centre for Research on
Transportation (serving as director from 1987 to 1991) and founding member of
the Groupe d'études et de recherche en analyse des décisions (GERAD). He has
authored or coauthored several books, as well as more than 275 scientific
articles in combinatorial optimization, mostly in the areas of vehicle routing,
location and timetabling. He has received many scientific awards including the
Pergamon Prize (
United Kingdom
) in 1987, the 1994 Merit Award of the Canadian Operational Research Society,
the CORS Practice Prize on two occasions. In 1999, he obtained the ACFAS
Jacques-Rousseau Prize for Interdisciplinarity, and the President's Medal
(Operational Research
Society
,
United Kingdom
). In 2001, he was awarded the Pedagogy Prize by HEC Montréal. He has been a
member of the Royal Society of Canada since 1998.
Lecture to be presented in EWI
2007
Title
Location-routing
problems
Abstract
In
Location-Routing Problems, the aim is to simultaneously design vehicle routes
and make locational decisions. Traditionally these problems have been
investigated in the context of node routing, but some arc routing applications
have also been proposed recently. I will first introduce a general framework for
the study of location-routing problems and I will describe some applications. I
will then present some mathematical models, exact and heuristic procedures, and
computational results.
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