DEIS Unit Presentation

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DEIS Unit Presentation

• Kickoff Meeting
• Bologna, September 14-16, 2005
• Daniele Vigo
• DEIS - University of Bologna
• Alessandra Bonoli
• DICMA University of Bologna

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University of Bologna

• It is the oldest University of the world (since
  1088)
• One of the largest in Italy (more than 100K
  students)
• Located in Emilia Romagna

• main site in Bologna
• 5 satellites (Ravenna, Forlì, Cesena,
  Rimini and Reggio Emilia)

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OR group at DEIS

• DEIS (Electronics, Computer Science Systems)
• largest dept of UNIBO, 200 Professors,
  Researchers PhDs,
• www.deis.unibo.it and www.or.deis.unibo.it

• The OR group at DEIS is active since 70s
• 6 permanent Faculty Staff
• 5 Ph.D. students and post-doc
• some fellows and external collaborators
• Research and didactics in Bologna, Cesena, and
  Forlì
• Two research labs (LABOR and OPTIMAL)

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IUWMM DEIS Unit

• The unit will include
• DEIS Permanent Staff and external collaborators
• Daniele Vigo (dvigo_at_deis.unibo.it), Roberto
  Baldacci
• Paola Perini, Gessica Zarri, Anna Chiara
  Gricinella, Claudia DAmbrosio,
• Contact 39-051-2093029 (IUWMM_at_deis.unibo.it),
• Researchers from other Unibo Departments
• DICMA (Dept. of Chemical and Mining Engineering
  and Environmental Technologies), reference
• Prof. Alessandra Bonoli
  (39-051-2093396 alessandra.bonoli_at_mail.ing.unibo.
  it)

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OR Research Activity

• High-level international research group
• since late 70s hundreds of papers in top class
  international journal
• Editorial activity, AE or editor in chief of
  Transportation Science, Operations Research, OR
  Letters, Journal of Heuristics, European Journal
  of Operational Research, Networks, ITOR,
  Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences,
  Statistics and Computer Science, Discrete Applied
  Mathematics, 4OR
• Strong international links Centre de Recherche
  sur les Transports-Montréal, C.O.R.E. - Rutgers
  Univ., M.I.T. and Southeastern Univ. - Boston,
  D.I.K.U. - Univ. of Copenhagen, Univ. of
  Valencia, Univ. of Graz, Univ. of Tenerife,
  Univ. Libre de Bruxelles
• International awards EURO gold medal (PT),
  Dantzig Price (AC)
• International activity (PT) President of EURO
  and IFORS
• about 200-300 K/year of research funds in late
  years

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Main OR Research Areas

• Models and algorithms for Hard Combinatorial
  Optimization Problems
• Vehicle Routing and Scheduling
• freight distribution in urban areas
• traditional and demand responsive transportation
  systems
• solid waste management (collection, frequency,
  flow )
• car-pooling/car-sharing optimization
• handicapped persons transportation in urban areas
• Cutting and Packing
• waste minimization in industrial cutting problems
• palletization and vehicle/container loading
  problems
• other related problems (holder placement, job
  sequencing)

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Main OR Research Areas (cont.)

• Crew and Personnel Management
• Crew scheduling and rostering in public transit
• Crew scheduling and rostering in railways
• Machine assignment and managment
• Call-centers personnel optimization
• Computational Biology and Biomedical
  applications
• sorting problems arising in genome
  characterization
• classification and clustering problems
• sampling and image compression problems

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Applied projects on SWM

• Definition of optimal service frequencies,
  capacity allocation and routing for solid waste
  collection
• in collaboration with AMI Imola, CIS Forlì, AREA,
  Ravenna and Geovest Bologna (2000now)

• savings of 1521 on operational costs in
  various applications in E.R.
• fully functional DSS for optimal offer planning

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Applied projects on SWM (2)

• Strategic planning of collection and disposal
  services for urban wastes
• in collaboration with HERA (2004-now)

• Definition of optimization models for facility
  sizing and flow allocation
• Development of a DSS for strategic planning (2005)

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Applied projects on SWM (3)

• RACCORSU Development of optimization tools for
  the tactical and operational planning of SW
  collection
• demand analysis
• collection site location and capacity allocation
• service frequencies determination
• vehicle routing
• online repotimization of collection plans
• in collaboration with Universities of Lecce,
  Brescia and Cosenza and Salvaguardia ambientale
  (Crotone)
• Project funded by Italian Research Ministry
  (1.2M) (started in 1/2005)

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Other applied projects (selection)

• Reconstruction of O/D matrix for regional freight
  flows (intermunicipality level)
• in collaboration with Regione Emilia-Romagna and
  TAV

• about 12,000 interviews in summer 2003

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Other applied projects (selection)

• Development of the CityPorts methodology for the
  definition and evaluation of City Logistics
  projects
• EU/INTERREG III/B CADSES AREA
• in collaboration with SCSconsulting and R.E.R.

• Follow up
• Definition of CityGoods Modeling framework for
  City Logistics

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Other applied projects (selection)

• RESCUE A catastrophe RESponse and reCovery
  transport and logistics decision sUpport systEm
• in collaboration with Protezione Civile E.R.
  (start fall 2005, about 100KEuro for DEIS
  subcontract)
• Funded by EU/INTERREG III/C programme
• Development of recovery vehicles routing
  algorithms and material optimal flow allocation

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Other applied projects (selection)

• CISIUM Project of the Infomobility
  infrastructure of the Municipality of Bologna
• mobility information system and traffic status
  analyzer
• integrated traffic control and User information
  system
• About 350 K (overall project 5M)

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DICMA

• Department of Chemical and Mining Engineering and
  Environmental Technologies
• Director FRANCESCO SANTARELLI
• Head office Viale Risorgimento, 2 -
  40136 Bologna
• Laboratories Via Terracini, 34 - 40131
  Bologna
• Tel. [phone]
• Fax. [phone]

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DICMA

• RESEARCH ACTIVITIES CONCERNING THE PROJECT
• SOLID TREATMENT OPTIMIZATION OF PROCESSES
• Machinery and plants of treatment of raw
  material and urban waste.
• Study on plants of selection and pre-treatment
  of waste materials.
• Technology of recycling and recovery of energy.
  Studies on their applications.
• TREATMENT AND RECOVERY OF WASTE MATERIAL COMING
  FROM INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND BUILDING TRADES
• Study on opportunity to recycle secondary raw
  material, coming from the treatment of demolition
  wastes or of rejections of mining activities.
• INTEGRATED SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AND PROJECT OF
  SEPARATED COLLECTION
• Environmental problems connected with the
  storage of waste.
• Valutation costs/benefits and application of LCA
  methodology to waste management.