Organizers
The organizers for the VRP implementation Challenge are:
- Claudia Archetti, ESSEC Business School
- Nicholas Kullman, Amazon
- Catherine McGeoch, D-Wave Systems
- Jorge Mendoza, HEC Montréal
- Panos Pardalos, University of Florida
- Mauricio Resende, Amazon
- Eduardo Uchoa, Universidade Federal Fluminense
- Thibaut Vidal, Polytechnique Montréal
Additional organizational assistance is provided by Tamra Carpenter (DIMACS) and Lazaros Gallos (DIMACS).
Organizers by VRP Variant
Each of the VRP variants has a lead organizer for the competition related to that variant. The leaders for each VRP variant are:
- Capacitated VRP: Eduardo Uchoa
- VRP with time windows: Eduardo Uchoa
- Inventory routing: Claudia Archetti
- VRP with split deliveries: Claudia Archetti
- Electric VRP: Nicholas Kullman & Jorge Mendoza (lead)
- Capacitated Arc Routing: Thibaut Vidal
- Time-dependent CARP: Thibaut Vidal
- Ride-hailing VRP: Nicholas Kullman (lead) & Jorge Mendoza