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S I K S  SEMINAR on Multi-Agent Route Planning
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On Monday March 15th, we will organize a SIKS-seminar at the occasion of the PhD defence of Adriaan ter Mors.
Adriaan's thesis deals with Multi-Agent Route Planning and three of his PhD committee members will present their
views on this field and related topics.

The seminar is part of the Advanced Components part of SIKS educational
program. You are cordially invited to attend both the seminar and the defence of Adriaan.

The colloquium will take place in
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Room HB 9.130, 9th floor,
EEMCS building
(Mekelweg 4, highest, red and blue, building) TU Delft.
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PROGRAM

10.00 - 10.30  coffee

10.30 START SEMINAR

10:30 dr. Fernando Kuipers (TU Delft)   From Internet to Vehicle Routing … and back.
11:00 prof. dr. ir. Han la Poutre (CWI A'dam, TUe Eindhoven)   Computational Decentralized Logistics

11.30 - 12.00 coffee break

12:00  prof. dr. Ingo Timm (U. Frankfurt) Simulation for Evaluation of complex, self-organizing systems

12.30 END of SEMINAR

The thesis defense of Adriaan will take place in the aula of TU Delft.
The program is as follows:

14.30 Small introductory talk of Adriaan (lekenpraatje)
15.00 PhD defence Adriaan ter Mors: The world according to MARP - Multi-Agent Route Planning
16.30 Reception


Abstracts
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From Internet to Vehicle Routing … and back.
dr. Fernando Kuipers

Abstract: Data-communication packets in the Internet and vehicles on our roads are analogous to some extent. 
In this presentation I will discuss one problem in “Internet routing”, namely Quality-of-Service routing and argue that it has relevance to vehicle routing. On the other hand I will take one problem from “vehicle routing”, namely the gas station problem, and demonstrate that it also appears (albeit in a more complex form) in routing in optical networks. Algorithmic solutions for both problems have been developed and will briefly be touched upon.

Computational Decentralized Logistics
prof. dr. ir. Han la Poutre

Abstract: Logistic problems become more and more complex. In reality, multiple
actors are involved in a continuously changing environment. Also, various
constraints exist in the application domain.
In order to meet realistic settings, simulation of the application domain
becomes necessary, in order to optimize the planning in a realistic way.
Such simulation models need to be constructed in a careful way, for which
optimization techniques can be developed.
In the presentation, we focus on efficient agent-based simulation models
and the combination with computational intelligence techniques, as a
computational system for optimization in logistic settings. We discuss
some application problems, coming from health care and transportation logistics.