Exact and heuristic approaches for optimization problems

The course will be held by prof. Valentina Cacchiani and is part of the training provided for IBES PhD Students (a.y.2025/2026) within the Automatic Control and Operations Research (ARO) curriculum.

  • Date:

    21 JANUARY
    -
    23 JANUARY 2026
     from 9:00 to 13:00
  • Event location: Room 5.5 - Viale Risorgimento, 2 - Bologna

  • Type: IBES Course

ABSTRACT

The course focuses on optimization problems having particular relevance either from a theoretical or from an application viewpoint. Some of the computationally most effective techniques for solving these problems will be introduced, e.g.: mathematical modelling and use of a general-purpose solver; the definition of relaxations of the problem; dynamic programming; the use of branch-and-bound, branch-and-cut or branch-and-price exact methods; the use of heuristic, metaheuristic or math-heuristic algorithms. For the proposed techniques, design and implementation issues will be discussed.

Info

This course is part of the IBES training activities for the a.y. 2025/2026.

Further information about the schedule, the minimum attendance rate and the exam format is outlined HERE and detailed by the instructor during the course.

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Valentina Cacchiani

MATH-06/A Operations Research

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