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CODE 60079
ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR MAT/09
LANGUAGE Italiano
TEACHING LOCATION
SEMESTER 1° Semester
TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

 

Course description

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Analysis of some problems related to maritime logistics and ports (scheduling and vehicle routing problems, human resource planning, multimodal network design and flow optimization on multimodal networks, berth allocation, stowage problems for containerships, dangerous goods). Analysis of technical and operational characteristics of ships. Methods: Integer and binary linear programming, graph theory, heuristics. Some software will be used for solving the analysed problems (i.e. LINDO, MPL, Excel).

 

TEACHING METHODS

Frontal lectures, case studies

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

"Analysis of some problems related to maritime logistics and ports
(scheduling and vehicle routing problems, hub and spoke networks,
locations, train loading problems, berth allocation and stowage problems
for containerships). Analysis of technical and operational characteristics
of ships. Methods: Integer and binary linear programming, graph theory,
heuristics and simulation via spreadsheet. Some software will be used for
solving the analysed problems (i.e. LINDO, MPL, Excel)"

 

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Slides and papers on AULAWEB

Hillier, Lieberman,  Introduction to Operations Research, McGraw-Hill

2009.

 

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

DANIELA AMBROSINO (President)

ANNA FRANCA SCIOMACHEN

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Sem: I

19 septembre - 15 decembre 2016

EXAMS

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Written examination and presentation of case studies.

Exam schedule

Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note
05/06/2017 09:30 GENOVA Scritto
10/07/2017 09:30 GENOVA Scritto
11/09/2017 09:30 GENOVA Scritto

FURTHER INFORMATION

http://www.economia.unige.it/index.php/english/incoming-erasmus-students