8月22日上午,加拿大西蒙弗雷泽大学Punnen教授应邀来我院进行学术交流,并作题为“Fleet size planning and schedule optimization for the British Columbia Ferry Services Inc.”的学术报告。报告会在我院214报告厅举行,由王阳副教授主持。我院青年教师、研究生、留学生认真聆听了此次讲座。
报告中,Punnen教授首先介绍了船队规模规划和调度优化问题的背景来源和模型构建,并详细讲解了模型中目标函数的构成和模型需要考虑的约束条件以及这些目标和约束是如何用数学的语言来表达的。随后,Punnen教授着重讲解了求解模型的Memetic算法的具体实现过程。
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报告人简介:
Abraham Punnen is a professor in the department of mathematics at Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada and the founding director of the center for operations research and decision sciences at SFU. He received PhD from IlT Kanpur in 1990 in Operations Research. Prior to joining SFU, he was a professor at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada. He held visiting appointments at University Colorado, Denver, USA, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA, and Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium under the prestigious CORE Fellowship. He published over 100 papers in major research journals and books, and is well known for the book he edited jointly with G. Gutin on the traveling salesman problem. He holds various research grants from industry and government. supervised many graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, and is currently a member of the NSERC grant evaluation group in civil, environmental, and industrial engineering.