{"id":39702,"date":"2021-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/optit.net\/2021\/04\/13\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T11:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:29:16","slug":"verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/events-2\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\/","title":{"rendered":"VeRoLog Webinar series: do not miss the plenary by Daniele Vigo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p3 wp-block-paragraph\">The new VeRoLog webinar series is upcoming: we are very glad to announce that our partner Daniele Vigo in the role of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/verolog\/\">VeRoLog<\/a> coordinator will kick off this initiative coordinating the plenary on \u201cIntegrating Machine Learning into state-of-the-art Vehicle Routing Heuristics\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p3 wp-block-paragraph\">The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is one of the most studied combinatorial optimization problems for which hundreds of innovative heuristic and exact algorithms have been proposed in more than fifty years of research. Recently, some attempts were performed towards the integration of Machine Learning into heuristics to enhance their performance and guide their design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p3 wp-block-paragraph\">The event will be the occasion to report some initial efforts VeRoLog performed in this direction and highlight the difficulties and promising research directions which merit further investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p3 wp-block-paragraph\">VeRoLog is the Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/web\/pages\/1\/home\">EURO<\/a>, the Association of the European Operational Research Societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p3 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The event will take place online on April 29, 2021, 4 pm through Zoom. The link will be soon available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/websites\/verolog\/webinar\/\">event webpage<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 29, 2021, 4 pm, Daniele Vigo, VeRoLog coordinator and Optit partner, will conduct the plenary on Integrating Machine Learning into state-of-the-art Vehicle Routing Heuristics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[911],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>VeRoLog Webinar series: do not miss the plenary by Daniele Vigo | OPTIT<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On April 29, 2021, 4 pm, Daniele Vigo, VeRoLog coordinator and Optit partner, will conduct the plenary on Integrating Machine Learning into state-of-the-art Vehicle Routing Heuristics\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/events-2\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VeRoLog Webinar series: do not miss the plenary by Daniele Vigo | OPTIT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On April 29, 2021, 4 pm, Daniele Vigo, VeRoLog coordinator and Optit partner, will conduct the plenary on Integrating Machine Learning into state-of-the-art Vehicle Routing Heuristics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/events-2\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"OPTIT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-12T22:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-07-21T09:29:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/optit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Vigo.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"giada.optit\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"giada.optit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/events-2\\\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/events-2\\\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"giada.optit\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/741e750ebd7b97e4fabd21d429e03ca3\"},\"headline\":\"VeRoLog Webinar series: do not miss the plenary by Daniele Vigo\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-12T22:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-07-21T09:29:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/events-2\\\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":175,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/events-2\\\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/09\\\/Vigo.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Events\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/events-2\\\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/events-2\\\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\\\/\",\"name\":\"VeRoLog Webinar series: do not miss the plenary by Daniele Vigo | OPTIT\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/events-2\\\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/events-2\\\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/09\\\/Vigo.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-12T22:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-07-21T09:29:16+00:00\",\"description\":\"On April 29, 2021, 4 pm, Daniele Vigo, VeRoLog coordinator and Optit partner, will conduct the plenary on Integrating Machine Learning into state-of-the-art Vehicle Routing Heuristics\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/events-2\\\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/events-2\\\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/events-2\\\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/09\\\/Vigo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/09\\\/Vigo.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":1024},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/events-2\\\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Events\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/.\\\/events-2\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"VeRoLog Webinar series: do not miss the plenary by Daniele Vigo\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"OPTIT\",\"description\":\"Optimal Solutions\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"alternateName\":\"Optimal Solutions\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"OPTIT\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/Livello-1.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/Livello-1.svg\",\"width\":329,\"height\":64,\"caption\":\"OPTIT\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/company\\\/optit-s.r.l.\\\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/optit.net\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/741e750ebd7b97e4fabd21d429e03ca3\",\"name\":\"giada.optit\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"VeRoLog Webinar series: do not miss the plenary by Daniele Vigo | OPTIT","description":"On April 29, 2021, 4 pm, Daniele Vigo, VeRoLog coordinator and Optit partner, will conduct the plenary on Integrating Machine Learning into state-of-the-art Vehicle Routing Heuristics","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/events-2\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"VeRoLog Webinar series: do not miss the plenary by Daniele Vigo | OPTIT","og_description":"On April 29, 2021, 4 pm, Daniele Vigo, VeRoLog coordinator and Optit partner, will conduct the plenary on Integrating Machine Learning into state-of-the-art Vehicle Routing Heuristics","og_url":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/events-2\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\/","og_site_name":"OPTIT","article_published_time":"2021-04-12T22:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-07-21T09:29:16+00:00","og_image":[{"width":768,"height":1024,"url":"https:\/\/optit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Vigo.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"giada.optit","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"giada.optit","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/events-2\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/events-2\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\/"},"author":{"name":"giada.optit","@id":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/741e750ebd7b97e4fabd21d429e03ca3"},"headline":"VeRoLog Webinar series: do not miss the plenary by Daniele Vigo","datePublished":"2021-04-12T22:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2026-07-21T09:29:16+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/events-2\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\/"},"wordCount":175,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/events-2\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/optit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Vigo.jpg","articleSection":["Events"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/events-2\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\/","url":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/events-2\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\/","name":"VeRoLog Webinar series: do not miss the plenary by Daniele Vigo | OPTIT","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/events-2\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/events-2\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/optit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Vigo.jpg","datePublished":"2021-04-12T22:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2026-07-21T09:29:16+00:00","description":"On April 29, 2021, 4 pm, Daniele Vigo, VeRoLog coordinator and Optit partner, will conduct the plenary on Integrating Machine Learning into state-of-the-art Vehicle Routing Heuristics","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/events-2\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/events-2\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/events-2\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/optit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Vigo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/optit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Vigo.jpg","width":768,"height":1024},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/events-2\/verolog-webinar-series-do-not-miss-the-plenary-by-daniele-vigo\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Events","item":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/.\/events-2\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"VeRoLog Webinar series: do not miss the plenary by Daniele Vigo"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/","name":"OPTIT","description":"Optimal Solutions","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/#organization"},"alternateName":"Optimal Solutions","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/#organization","name":"OPTIT","url":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/optit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Livello-1.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/optit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Livello-1.svg","width":329,"height":64,"caption":"OPTIT"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/optit-s.r.l.\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/741e750ebd7b97e4fabd21d429e03ca3","name":"giada.optit"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47091,"href":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39702\/revisions\/47091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optit.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}