Past & Recent projects

SAFE is a POR-FESR 2014–2020 funded project which aims at designing a realtime damage manager and decision support system for passengers ships. The IOLab research unit took part in the project together with CETENA SpA, SISSA MathLab, Arkitech Srl and Lloyds Register.

A PhD Scholarship on the topic of Smart Waste Collection is available.

The patient admission scheduling (PAS) problem consists assigning patients to beds in such a way to maximize both medical treatment effectiveness and patients’ comfort. The problem has been defined by Demeester et al.

We tackle complex real-world variants of the classical Vehicle Routing Problem and Three Dimensional Packing Problem, with a lot of practical features. In the web site we make available our real-world instances, along with our best results.

The educational timetabling problem consists in scheduling a sequence of events (typically lectures or examinations) which involves teachers and students in a prefixed period of time, satisfying a set of constraints of various types.

In the safe project, the IOLab designed and developed a simulator of the Friuli Venezia Giulia regional Emergency Medical System and an optimiztion for the ambulance (re)location on the wide regional area.

EasyLocal is an object-oriented framework that can be used as a general tool for the development of local search algorithms in C++. The basic idea of EasyLocal is to capture the essential features of most local search metaheuristics, and their possible compositions.