Output

At the end of the course, the students should have a deep understanding of how matheuristics work and should possess of the necessary skills and tools to perform research in this fascinating area.

For those who work already in the field of Vehicle Routing Problems, they should be able to transfer the new knowledge directly to their problem, for the others, they will tackle with the rest of the group this fascinating application domain and learn a lot from it.

Finally, the participant will approach the web-services in a simple and attractive manner and will learn how to develop their own system. Implementations that will be made during the lab sessions will be transfered to the web-service and ready to use for a large community.

Benefits:

• complete week of intensive classes on the hot topic matheuristics

• lab sessions to immediately apply new knowledge and competences

• creation of a new community of developers around web-services for OR

Moreover, the social program has been specially designed so that a friendship should arise from the school, creating long term links between the participants and establish future professional collaborations.

For the participants who want to start an academic career, it will be very beneficial for their future professional life.

ECTS:

Each participant will be granted with 5 ECTS credits and will receive a diploma for his/her participation to the EURO PhD School.