【海韵讲座】第27、28期

第27期：

题目：Intelligent Urban Logistics – Challenges, Current Practices and Future Research

主讲人：新加坡管理大学刘洪泉教授

地点:海韵教学楼206

时间:6月23日上午10:00

摘要：Logistics is a very important economic activity in smart city development. In this survey cum research talk, I will discuss the challenges of urban logistics, particularly in the context of last-mile delivery of freight into mega-cities like Singapore. I will first present several case studies in Europe and Asia on the operation of Urban Consolidation Centers (UCCs) which enable collaboration among shippers, carriers, and retailers to consolidate deliveries. I will then discuss my research on market mechanisms and system that provide the necessary technology and incentives for multiple stakeholders to derive win-win benefits from operating within UCCs. In particular, I discuss a profit-maximizing auction mechanism for using the UCC’s service. We model the winner determination problem as mixed-integer program (MIP). Then, we provide a greedy approximation algorithm to solve the MIP in reasonable time. Our experiments indicate that the proposed auction along with the greedy approximation algorithm is able to maximize the UCC’s profit to near optimality with reasonable computational budget.

第28期

题目：Intelligent Urban Logistics-Urban Mobility

主讲人：新加坡管理大学刘洪泉教授

地点:海韵教学楼504

时间:6月23日周一下午2:30-4:00

摘要: Logistics and transportation are two very aspects in smart city development. After reviewing several important problems in urban management, I will discuss last-mile delivery of passengers from a transport hub (such as a major train/bus station) to their homes via taxi ride-sharing. I will discuss a 2-level planning framework for making real-time clustering and routing decisions. The first upper/strategic level selects, from the set of current requests, the ones to be scheduled in a given period. The second lower/operational level clusters and then routes the selected requests. The upper level is formulated as a Markov decision process (MDP). For the operational problem, we use a standard vehicle routing heuristic.

讲座人简介

Prof. Lau's research in the interface of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research has been widely applied to decision support and optimization, and has contributed to advances of algorithms and applications to a variety of complex resource planning and scheduling problems in logistics, transportation, tourism and health-care. At SMU, he was awarded the SMU 李光耀Research Fellowship for research excellence in 2008. He currently serves on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering and guest editors in the Journal of Heuristics and Web Intelligence and Agent Systems Journal.
He has been involved in consulting projects in logistics and transportation, for companies such as DHL, Bax Global, PSA, EADS, ST Dynamics, and various government agencies. He is a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transportation, and currently serves on the CILT (Singapore) board of directors. For his work with the Singapore Ministry of Defense, he won the National Innovation and Quality Convention Star Award in 2006, and was nominated for the prestigious Defense Technology Prize (individual category) in 2007.