EU/ME - the metaheuristics community

The second visit of the Analytics Genie was fully as unexpected as the first.  The sudden appearance of mist billowing out of nowhere in the corner of my study and the image of an imposing figure in a turban materializing within it is not the sort of thing one easily gets used to.

The genie stepped forward, touching his hand to his forehead in greeting – a little less theatrical than the sweeping bow he had executed on his first visit – and addressed me in a tone as if he had only left my presence moments before.  "Have you made progress in choosing your second wish?"

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Read the first visit of the Analytics Genie

The purpose of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization is to constitute an aggregation and reference point for the rich and active research community to advance the development and application of Operations Research methods, techniques and tools to the field of Vehicle Routing and Logistics. The Groups meetings will encourage the exchange of information among practitioners, users, and researchers in the area of Vehicle Routing and Logistics, stimulating the work on new and important problems with sound scientific methods. Moreover its members and specific meetings/workshops will actively promote the interest on Vehicle Routing and Logistics in the most important scientific journals by proposing and editing special and contributed issues. Finally, the group will also facilitate the networking activities that are crucial for the proposition of successful international research and industrial projects.