Laurent Alfandari

Associate Professor,  Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department

International Teachers Program (ITP) 2010, Kellogg Business School 

Doctorate in Operations Research, Paris-Dauphine University

Master of Research in Management Science, Paris-Dauphine University
ESSEC M.Sc
DEUG Mathematics & Social Sciences, Paris-Dauphine University

Operations Research & optimal planning of operations

Combinatorial Optimization

Approximation heuristics and Column Generation methods

Supply-Chain Management, Transportation and Logistics

Facility location and Network Design

Human Resources (HR) planning

- Combination of column generation techniques and approximation heuristics for large-scale Covering Integer Programs, with J. Sadki, A. Plateau and A. Nagih (application to railway transportation and agricultural production)

- New formulations and Branch & Cut methods for some Traveling Salesman Problem variants, with S. Borne, L. Létocart and P. Pesneau

- Approximation methods for variants of Set Covering problems, with J. Monnot

- ANR TODO (Time vs Optimality in Discrete Optimization), Dir. V. Paschos

- ANR MODUM : Sustainable city logistics, with D. Feillet, L. Létocart, F. Meunier, R. Wolfler-Calvo 

- Challenge ROADEF 2010 : Optimal planning of EDF nuclear plants outages and production (Dir. R. Wolfler-Calvo)

Operations Research

Operations Management

Decision Theory

Computer-aided Decision Making

Business Mathematics & Statistics

   International conferences:

EURO XXIV, Lisboa, Juy 2010 : "A column generation approach for scheduling nuclear power plants refueling" with R. Wolfler-Calvo, A. Rozenknop, D. Chemla, L. Létocart, G. Turri

CIRO, Marrackech, 2010 : "Hybridization of column generation and greedy schemes for transportationh planning problems", with J. Sadki, A. Plateau, A. Nagih

ISCO 2010, Hammamet : "Approximation of the Clustered Set Covering Problem" with J. Monnot

ISMP 2009, Chicago, August 24-28, 2009 : "A hybrid approach combining column generation and approximation heuristics for large-scale Covering Integer Programs", with J. Sadki, A. Plateau and A.Nagih

IFORS 2008, Johannesburg, July 13-18, 2008 : "Approximation of generic locomotive assignment problems"  J. Sadki, A. Plateau, A. Nagih

NCP 07, Rouen, 2007 : "Linear and quadratic formulations of the asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem", with L. Létocart, S. Borne

EURO XXII, Prague, July 8-11, 2007: "A greedy approximation algorithm for the soft-capacitated facility location problem"

6th CTW Workshops on Graphs & Combinatorial Optimization, Enschede, Nederlands, May 29-31, 2007: "Edge cover by bipartite subgraphs" with M.C. Plateau and L. Liberti 

EURO XXI, Reykjavik, July 3-6, 2006: "A MIP flow model for crop rotation planning in a sustainable development context", with J.L. Lemalade, A. Nagih and G. Plateau

EURO XX, Rhodos, July 4-7, 2004: "Boolean inverse optimization problems", with M. Demange and J. Monnot

CO'02 (12th Intl Symp. on Combinatorial Opt.), Paris, Apr. 8-10, 2002: "A path-relinking metaheuristic for the Generalized Assignment Problem", with A. Plateau and P. Tolla.

MIC 2001 (Metaheuristics Intl Conf.), Porto, Jul. 16-20, 2001: "A two-phase path-relinking algorithm for the Generalized Assignment Problem", with A. Plateau and P. Tolla.

CLAIO X (10th Latin-Ibero-American Conf. on Op. Res. and Syst.), Mexico, Sept. 4-8, 2000: "Logical Definability of Covering and Partitioning Minimization Problems."

ISCIS XIII (Intl Symp. on Comp. and Inf. Sc.), Antalya, Oct. 26-28, 1998: "On the Approximation of Some Spanning-Arborescence Problems", with V. Paschos.

FRANCORO II (2è Journées Francophones de RO), Sousse, 6-8 avr. 2000 : "Une approche heuristique pour des problèmes d'affectation de personnel appliqués au transport ferroviaire", with S. Gabteni.

EURO XV/ INFORMS XXXIV, Barcelona, Jul 13-16, 1997: "Approximating the Minimum Weight Rooted Spanning Tree with Radius Less Than Two." 

National conferences :

ROADEF 2008 (French OR Society), Clermont-Ferrand, february 25-27, "Approximation du problème générique d'affectation de locomotives" with J. Sadki, A. Plateau and A. Nagih. 

ROADEF 2008 " Modèles linéaires et quadratiques pour le problème du voyageur de commerce assymétrique" with L. Létocart and S. Borne. 

ROADEF 2006, Lille, february 6-8 2006, "Un modèle de planification des rotations culturales dans un contexte de lutte contre la déforestation à Madagascar" with J.L. Lemalade, A. Nagih and G. Plateau

ROADEF 2005, Tours, february 2005, "Une approche de modélisation générique pour la gestion des locomotives frêt à la SNCF", N. Marcos, D. de Almeida, D. Gauyacq, A. Nagih, G. Plateau 

ROADEF 2003, Avignon, 26-28 fev 2003, "Modeles de localisation pour l'Aide Multicritere a la Decision"

ROADEF II, Autrans, 12-15 jan 1999, "Une heuristique avec garantie de performance pour le problème d'arbre recouvrant euclidien de diamètre 4."

ROADEF I, Paris, 14-16 jan 1998, "Le problème de la forêt minimum de diamètre k."

MODE 5(Math. de l'Opt. et de la Déc.), Paris, 19-21 mar 1997, "Approximation du problème de l'arbre recouvrant de poids minimum de profondeur 2."

Member of the French OR Society (ROADEF)

Member of GREFELOT research group on transportation optimization
Reviews for international journals European Journal of Operational Research, Computational Optimization and Applications, Annals of Operations Research, RAIRO Operations Research, Discrete Applied Mathematics