Tommaso Adamo
graduated in Computer Engineering from University of Salento in 2013. In 2017 he received his Ph.D degree in Engineering of Complex Systems from University of Salento where currently he is a Researcher of Operations Research. His research interests focuses on: combinatorial optimization models and machine learning in vehicle routing problems.
Gianpaolo Ghiani
is Professor of Operations Research at the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy). His main research interests lie in the field of decision support systems (including methodologies at the boundary between operations research and artificial intelligence) with an emphasis on applications to logistic systems planning & control. He was "postdoctoral" al GERAD (Grouped’Etudes et de Recherche en Analyse des Decisions), Universited́e Montreal, Montreal, Canada (1998-99). He has published over 70 papers in a variety of international journals. His doctoral thesis was awarded the Transportation Science Dissertation Award from INFORMS in 1998. He has co-authored the textbook "Introduction to Logistics Systems Management" (Wiley, 2022).
Emanuela Guerriero
received the Laurea (M.Sc.) in Computer Engineering from the University of Lecce in 1999 and the Ph.D. degree in Operations Research from the University of Calabria in 2003. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento. Her main research interests concern: combinatorial optimization for planning and scheduling problems, with applications in manufacturing and logistics; problem- solving methods lying at the boundary between Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence. She has published more then 37 papers in international journals, including, International Transactions in Operational Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Parallel Computing, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Transportation Science, 4OR, Computers and Operations Research.