Collaborations

Collaborations

National

Collaborations with papers in common with:

    • University of South Brittany in Lorient (M. Sevaux),
    • University Blaise Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand (P. Lacomme, C. Duhamel),
    • Mining School of Nantes (C. Guéret, P. Dejax).

International

Collaborations with papers in common and/or PhD co-directions with:

    • University of Valencia, Spain (E. Benavent, J.M. Belenguer),
    • Technical University of Lisbon (M.C. Mourão, A.C. Nunes),
    • CIRRELT, Montréal, Canada (M. Gendreau, T. Crainic, P. Soriano, A. Ruiz),
    • University of Bologna (A. Mingozzi),
    • Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia (A. Medaglia, N. Velasco),
    • University of Antwerp, Belgium (K. Sörensen).

Special visiting professor in the project "Efficient algorithms for vehicle routing problems with real applications" with the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niteroi, Brazil (national program "Science without frontiers" of the Brazilian Government), 2014-2016.

Invitations

    • Keynote speaker, Optimization Days, May 2014, Montréal, Canada.
    • Invited tutorial of 4x1h30 "Metaheuristics for vehicle routing problems" at VRP 2013 (European Spring School on Vehicle Routing, Angers, France, funded by EURO, May 2013).
    • Reviewer of the PhD thesis defended by Y. Jin, Molde University College, Molde, Norway, March 2013.
    • Organizer of an invited session and invited speaker at CLAIO 2012 (Latin-American Conference of Operations Research), September 2012, Rio de Janeiro.
    • Two invited stays at the Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, 2007 and 2009.
    • Invited talk at VIP 2008 (Vehicle Routing in Practice), Oslo, 2008.
    • Invited tutorial of 2h "Genetic algorithms for vehicle routing problems" at the Spring School on Vehicle Routing, HEC Montréal, Canada, 2006.
    • Examiner of the PhD thesis defended by L. Muyldermans, KU Leuven, Belgium, 2003.
    • Reviewer of the PhD thesis defended by M.T. Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark, 2001.