Network design optimization with applications in logistics and telecommunications

拟议的研究涉及到大型网络设计问题的复杂的解决方案的方法的发展，应用到最近的问题，在物流和电信。网络设计问题因其理论和实践意义而引起了大量的研究和持续的关注。 网络设计是几个学科的交叉点，即运筹学/管理科学，图论，工程和计算机科学。大多数网络设计问题是困难的优化问题，规模很大。此外，技术和商业战略的最新进展导致了一系列具有挑战性的问题，使大多数经典模型过时。有一个迫切需要建立网络设计模型，捕捉最近的应用程序的复杂性，并开发专门的优化工具，以提供有效的和有意义的解决方案。 例如，网络设计的最新应用包括：协同运输系统设计、混合电信网络设计、服务系统设计、全球供应链网络设计等。

The proposed research concerns the development of sophisticated solution methods for large scale network design problems with application to recent problems in logistics and telecommunications. Network design problems spawned a substantial amount of research and continue to attract much attention because of their theoretical and practical significance. Network design lies at the intersection of several disciplines; namely, operations research/management science, graph theory, engineering and computer science. Most network design problems are hard optimization problems and are large in size. In addition, recent advances in technology and business strategies lead to an array of challenging issues that made most classical models obsolete. There is an urgent need to build network design models that capture the complexity of recent applications and to develop specialized optimization tools in order to provide efficient and meaningful solutions. For example, recent applications of network design include: collaborative transportation systems design, hybrid telecommunications network design, service systems design, global supply chain network design, etc.