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Title : Two Case Studies in Large-Scale, Multi-Criteria Dispatching
Date : Oct 29, 2007
Speaker : G. Don Taylor, Charles O. Gordon Professor and Department Head
Affiliation : Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech
Abstract
Dispatching is a difficult problem under the best of circumstances, but it is even more daunting when faced with multiple performance criteria. It is often difficult or impossible to meet all requirements for all constituencies. Similarly, dispatching problems are affected by scale. In some ways, large companies can take advantage of size in finding dispatch economies, but these economies of scale often come at a cost in terms of dispatching complexity. This presentation focuses on the problems and opportunities to be found in large-scale, multi-criteria dispatching, and discusses math programming and simulation-based solutions using two case studies; the first in truckload trucking, and the second in the inland barge industry.
Biosketch
G. Don Taylor is the Charles O. Gordon Professor and Department Head in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. He was previously the Mary Lee and George F. Duthie Chair in Engineering Logistics at the University of Louisville . He has also been on the faculty at the University of Arkansas and has held a visiting position at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His industry experience includes positions at Texas Instruments and Digital Equipment Corporation and he has consulted or performed research for approximately 50 additional companies. He is a past director of The Logistics Institute and a founding Director of the Center for Engineering Logistics and Distribution. His PhD in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research is from the University of Massachusetts and his BSIE and MSIE degrees were earned at the University of Texas at Arlington . He is a registered Professional Engineer.
