Guido Perboli

Politecnico di Torino | polito · DIGEP - Department of Management and Production Engineering

This paper studies the drone-aided last-mile delivery problem with shared depot resources. Our research motivation comes from E-commerce logistics, where big companies such as Amazon, are already filing up patents for the development of drone-friendly fulfillment centers towers that could serve as both charging hubs and convenient pit stops for del...

Blockchain is a technology that creates trust among non-trusting parties, without relying on any intermediary. Consequently, it has attracted the interest of companies operating in a multitude of sectors. However, due to the number of different blockchain solutions that have emerged in the last few years and their rapid changes, it is challenging f...

Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies are gaining the interest of the academy, companies, and institutions. Nonetheless, the path toward blockchain adoption is not straightforward, as blockchain is a complex technology that requires revisiting the standard way of addressing problems and tackling them from a decentralized perspective. Thus,...

This paper deals with the optimization problem faced by the manufacturing engineering department of an international automotive company, concerning its supply chain design (i.e., decisions regarding which plants to open, how many components to produce, and the logistic flow from production to assembly plants). The intrinsic characteristics of the p...

In the evolving context of distributed ledger technologies, the standardization of smart contracts is necessary. Smart contracts are tamper-proof computer programs. Due to their security and flexibility, it is possible to exploit smart contracts in a wide variety of use cases. In particular, it could be possible to automate legally recognized contr...

With the printing industry sparing no efforts publishing books on Artificial Intelligence (AI), why should there be another that, in its title and subtitle, combines the overused words AI and trustworthy, with the alien words standards and pervasive? The answer is that the book describes a solution that covers all the elements of the title: to eff...

Accidents in aviation are rare events. From them, aviation safety management systems take fast and effective remedy actions by performing the analysis of the root causes of accidents, most of which are proved to be human factors. Since the current standard relies on the manual classification performed by trained staff, there are no technical standa...

This paper investigates a dynamic and stochastic vehicle routing problem with time windows that considers the use of multiple delivery options and crowd drivers, reflecting the synchromodality in the urban context. We propose a multi-stage stochastic model, and we solve the problem by using a simulation-optimization strategy. It relies on a Monte C...

Nell'ambito della visione olistica della sicurezza europea, analisi della cultura della valutazione del rischio per lo sviluppo sostenibile del Mediterraneo Giugno 2021

Authors are invited to submit a manuscript to the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Smart & Sustainable Mobility & Logistics in Smart Cities - SSMLS 2021 (at COMPSAC 2021). Deadline for submission (Extended): May 1, 2021

In the field of detection and prediction of company defaults and bankruptcy, significant effort has been devoted to evaluating financial ratios as predictors using statistical models and machine learning techniques. This problem becomes crucially important when financial decision-makers are provided with predictions on which to act, based on the ou...

Two-tier city logistics systems are playing a very important role nowadays in the management of urban freight activities. Although several city authorities have promoted different measures to foster the implementation of small urban consolidation centers in a two-tier system, only a few authors have addressed the joint problem of operating these fa...

City Logistics aims to reduce the nuisances, e.g., congestion and the environmental footprint, associated to the transportation of freight within urban areas, while sustaining the social and economic development of the organizations and cities involved. City Logistics achieves its goals through integrated planning of operations. Yet, it also displa...

The growth of environmental awareness and more robust enforcement of numerous regulations to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have directed efforts towards addressing current environmental challenges. Considering the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), one of the effective strategies to control greenhouse gas emissions is to convert the fossil fuel...

In recent years, the concept of a “Smart City” became central in the agenda of researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders. Although the application of information and communication technologies on city management has advanced exponentially, also other components would be needed for building a truly sustainable urban environment. Researchers from...

We consider a decision maker who performs a stochastic decision process over a multiple number of stages, where the choice alternatives are characterized by random utilities with unknown probability distribution. The decisions are nested each other, i.e. the decision taken at each stage is affected by the subsequent stages' decisions. The problem c...

Authors are invited to submit a manuscript to the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Smart & Sustainable Mobility & Logistics in Smart Cities - SSMLS 2020 (at COMPSAC 2020). Deadline for submission (Extended): April 24, 2020

One of the main endeavors of smart cities is the organization and subsidization of public transportation. To achieve this, it is important to obtain information about the way in which people move. This once-difficult problem can now be addressed by using smartphones. This paper introduces a machine learning-based framework that is able to discrimin...

In waste collection, one of the most important decision regards the routing and the scheduling of the service. In this context, during the Optimization for Networked Data in Environmental Urban Waste Collection (ONDE-UWC) project, an innovative optimization method for tackling those decisions has been developed in collaboration with the company Cid...

The improper integration of traditional transportation modes with low emissions vehicles can generate a price war that reduces the service quality, undermining the efficiency and the profitability of parcel delivery operators. This paper aims to provide managerial insights to design a win-win strategy for the co-existence of traditional and green b...

In this paper, we present a new problem arising at a tactical level of setting a last-mile parcel delivery service in a city by considering different Transportation Companies (TC), which differ in cost and service quality. The courier must decide which TCs to select for the service in order to minimize the total cost and maximize the total service...

Due to the spread of the social engagement paradigm, several companies are asking people to perform tasks in exchange for a reward. The advantages of this business model are savings in economic and environmental terms. In previous works, it has been proved that the problem of finding the minimum amount of reward such that all tasks are performed is...

Synchro-modal supply chain eco-NET (SYNCHRO-NET) is a Horizon 2020 European research project aimed at overcoming the stress due to the increasing transportation distances, the higher complexity, and the vulnerability of international supply chains. In order to foster sustainability, quality, and reliability of such supply chains, SYNCHRO-NET mainly...

In recent years, the role of freight transportation and parcel delivery in urban areas has increased, supporting the economic and social development of cities. At the same time, the industry is affected by various issues, inefficiencies, and externalities, particularly in the last-mile segment. As such, there is an emerging awareness of a need to i...

We study a multi-product multi-supplier procurement problem in the Automotive sector involving both supplier selection and ordering quantity decisions, and further complicated by the presence of total quantity discounts, business activation costs, and demand uncertainty. Recent works have shown the importance of explicitly incorporate demand uncert...

The Blockchain technology can be defined as a distributed ledger database for recording transactions between parties verifiably and permanently. Blockchain emerged as a leading technology layer for financial applications. Nevertheless, in the past years, the attention of researchers and practitioners moved to the application of the Blockchain techn...

In this paper we propose a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for supporting the definition of a personal income tax reform. As a case study, we apply this methodology to the Italian income tax, and consider a recently implemented tax cut. Our optimization algorithm can determine a set of tax structures that maximize the redistributive effect o...

It is well known that the Multinomial Logit model for the choice probability can be obtained by considering a random utility model where the choice variables are independent and identically distributed with a Gumbel distribution. In this paper we show that using some results of the extreme values theory for i.i.d. random variables, the Gumbel distr...

The Optimization for Networked Data in Environmental Urban Waste Collection (ONDE-UWC) project is, to the best of our knowledge, the first attempt to apply the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm to the field of waste collection. Sensors installed in dumpsters and garbage trucks share data, such as weight measurements and the number of user accesses....

The role of a relatively small cadre of high-tech startup firms in driving innovation and economic growth has been well known and amply celebrated in recent history. At the same time, it is well recognized that, while the overall contribution of startups is crucial, the high-risk and high-reward strategy followed by these startups leads to signific...

The explicit consideration of uncertainty is essential in addressing most planning and operation issues encountered in the management of complex systems. Unfortunately, the resulting stochastic programming formulations, integer ones in particular, are generally hard to solve when applied to realistically-sized instances. A common approach is to con...

In recent years, freight transportation has emerged as a key factor in the development and dynamicity of countries. However, it has had a considerable impact on urban areas due to environmental issues. Owing to this, several stakeholders have implemented City Logistics solutions in order to make freight transportation more sustainable and efficient...

An enormous number of devices are currently available to collect data. One of the main applications of these devices is in the urban environment, where they can collect data useful for improving the operations management and reducing economic, environmental and social costs. This is the main goal of smart cities. To gather these data from devices,...

Globalization and e-commerce facilities have yielded in the recent years an incredibly huge increment of freight movements. Consequently, the underlying supply chains have become more and more complex to manage for the shipping companies, in terms of costs, distances, times, and environmental sustainability. SYNCHRO-NET, a H2020 European research p...

Conference talk, presented by D. Manerba.

We introduce new valid inequalities for the two-echelon variant of the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP)In particular, a first group of inequalities is obtained by extending to 2E-CVRP some of the most effective among the existing CVRP valid inequalities. A second group of inequalities is explicitly derived for the 2E-CVRP and concerns the...

We study the Capacitated Supplier Selection problem with Total Quantity Discount policy and Activation Costs, a procurement problem where a company needs a certain quantity of different products from a set of potential suppliers, and introduce its variant under uncertainty. In its deterministic form, the problem aims at selecting a subset of the su...

City Logistics has attracted considerable interest from the operations research and logistics communities during past decades. It resulted in a broad variety of promising approaches from different fields of combinatorial optimisation. However, research on urban freight transportation is currently slowing down due to two different lacks, limiting th...

While the scientific community has been recently devoting significant efforts to propose efficient and innovative approaches to address many types of City Logistics problems, a standard framework for simulating and studying the impact of optimization in City Logistics is currently missing, limiting the technology transfer to industry. Furthermore,...

In recent years, online shopping is increasing the flows that transit into the urban areas. An increase in demand corresponds to an increase in operational complexity for logistics operators and environmental issues. This paper presents the development of a mobile platform integrated with wearable features to foster the collaboration between differ...

Globalization and e-commerce facilities have yielded in the recent years an incredibly huge increment of freight movements. Consequently, the underlying supply chains have become more and more complex to manage for the shipping companies, in terms of costs, distances, times, and environmental sustainability. SYNCHRO-NET, a H2020 European research p...

It is well known that the Multinomial Logit model for the choice probability can be obtained by considering a random utility model where the choice variables are independent and identically distributed with a Gumbel distribution. In this paper we organize and summarize existing results of the literature which show that using some results of the ext...

Intermodal transportation refers to multimodal chains or networks involving at least two transportation modes, freight being packed into a "container" and not being handled at intermodal-transfer terminals on its trip from its origin to its destination. This characterization makes intermodal transportation a multi-actor complex system involving a b...

The Capacitated Supplier Selection problem with Total Quantity Discount policy and Activation Costs is a procurement problem where a company needs to purchase a certain quantity of different products from a set of potential suppliers offering discounts based on the total quantity purchased. The buyer company wants to minimize the total expenditure...

Contracting with carriers or third-party logistics firms is a way to secure transportation or warehousing capacity for the next planning period. However, contracts are concluded under uncertainty regarding the demand of loads to be transported, the availability of contracted capacity and of the extra one if needed. The question is how much to contr...

The logistics sector faces substantial challenges in meeting customer demands for higher service quality, speed and flexibility under conditions of continued growth in world trade and worldwide transportation movements, increasing distances and vulnerabilities of the supply chain. Additional challenges relate to the economic and environmental susta...

The growth of car-sharing services as a new and more sustainable way of transportation is shifting the private mobility from ownership to service use. Despite the emerging importance of this type of mobility and the large number of papers present in the scientific literature, to the best of our knowledge no extensive and structured analysis has bee...

Conference talk

The paper considers an important new and growing business in sustainable transportation, car-sharing services. This is, to our knowledge, the first comprehensive analysis of car-sharing services from the business model point of view. Specifically, we apply and introduce a standard and reproducible way to compare the business models of car-sharing c...

In energy distribution systems, uncertainty is the major single cause of power outages. In this paper, we consider the usage of electric batteries in order to mitigate it. We describe an intelligent battery able to maximize its own lifetime while guaranteeing to satisfy all the electric demand peaks. The battery exploits a customized steady-state e...

Inferring driver maneuvers is a fundamental issue in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), which can significantly increase security and reduce the risk of road accidents. This is not an easy task due to a number of factors such as driver distraction, unpredictable events on the road, and irregularity of the maneuvers. In this complex setting,...

E-grocery is a new emerging and challenging business channel for the food and beverage market, enabling consumers to purchase grocery products online. It combines the issues of last mile distribution with those related to the perishability of foods, affecting the success and profitability of several e-grocery companies. The Local Food Supply Chain...