Universität Wien

040665 VK KFK PM/SCM/TL: Transportation Logistics (2010W)

8.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

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Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 50 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes

Currently no class schedule is known.

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Traveling Salesman Problem
Vehicle Routing Problems
Vehicle Location Problems
Arc Routing and Postman Problems
Container Loading
Order Picking in Warehouses
Applications: Disaster Relief Operations Planning, Inventory Routing, Newspaper Delivery, Ready Mixed Concrete Delivery

Assessment and permitted materials

4 exams: October, 29; November, 26; January, 7; January, 29.
homework and class participation.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The students should be able to develop mathematical models for transportation problems and develop heuristic solution methods.

Examination topics

Heuristic and exact solution methods.
LP-Solvers.

Reading list

Toth, and Vigo (2002): The Vehicle Routing Problem. SIAM.
Wolfgang Domschke, Logistik: Transport, 4. Aufl., Oldenbourg, 1995.
Wolfgang Domschke, Logistik: Rundreisen und Touren, 4. Aufl., Oldenbourg, 1997.
Michalewicz, Fogel: How to solve it: Modern Heuristics, Springer, 2000.
Emile Aarts, Jan Karel Lenstra, Eds., Local Search in Combinatorial Optimization, Wiley, 1997.
E.L. Lawler et al., Eds., The Traveling Salesan Problem, Wiley, 1985.
Ibrahim H. Osman, James P. Kelly, Eds., Meta-Heuristics: Theory and Applications, Kluwer, 1996.
Vasek Chvatal, Linear Programming, W.H. Freeman and Co., 1983.
D. Corne, M. Dorigo, F. Glover, Eds., New Ideas in Optimization,McGraw-Hill, 1999.

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