The Research Campus MODAL team was honored to compete in the finals of the IIF Forecasting Practice Competition, alongside lpiranga, HP, Wayfair, and Maersk. The competition showcased impressive applications of forecasting methods driving real business impact. Congratulations to Wayfair for winning this year’s competition! Our submission, EnergyLab Prognosis, is a hybrid forecasting system for hourly...Read More
Since 2013, the nine research campuses have been bringing innovations to market maturity and are breeding grounds for entrepreneurship. Since their inception, they have developed many products and services and helped many start-ups get off the ground. On the occasion of the program’s 10th anniversary, the BMBF lists some highlights. Link: Research Campus – 10...Read More
The summer school CO@Work 2024 takes place from September 16 to 27, 2024, at Zuse Institute Berlin and is organized jointly by TU Berlin, HTW Berlin, FU Berlin, and Zuse Institute Berlin, and co-sponsored by MATH+, BMS, Forschungscampus MODAL, I²DAMO, GOR, DFG Priority Program 2298, COPT, d-fine, FICO, GAMS, and Gurobi. 142 on-site participants from 27 countries plus 408 online participants from all over the world enjoy 43 lectures on...Read More
Timo Berthold, as Director Development responsible for FICO’s Xpress Optimization Suite, and also one of the most active members of MODAL’s SynLab, gives his views on mixed integer optimization and machine learning, punk rock music, and other relevant topics on Anand Subramanian’s popular “Subject to” podcast, available on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcast. YouTube Link...Read More
From August 12th to 16th, 2024, the 8th NUS-ISM-ZIB-IIR-MODAL Workshop, titled “Next Generation Computing and Algorithms in the Digital Era,” took place. This workshop is the eighth in a successful series of international collaborations with our Japanese and Singaporean partners, strongly supported by the research campus MODAL. The workshop aimed to explore the potential of...Read More
The paper titled “Faster exact solution of sparse MaxCut and QUBO problems” (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-023-00236-6) by Daniel Rehfeldt, Thorsten Koch, and Yuji Shinano has won the Outstanding Paper of the Year Award 2023 in Mathematical Programming Computation. The award was announced at the 2024 ISMP in Montreal, Canada. This research, a collaboration between the SynLab of the...Read More
Gioni Mexi and his coauthors Somayeh Shamsi, Mathieu Besancon, and Pierre Le Bodic won the Best Student Paper Award at the 21st International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research (CPAIOR), which was held on May 28-31, 2024, in Uppsala, Sweden. Gioni Mexi is a PhD student in the SynLab...Read More
BMBF’s Department 711 and Projektträger DESY visited the Research Campus MODAL on May 27th/28th, 2024. With a guided tour of the FUBIC construction site, a tour of the six labs of the research campus and the LISE supercomputer, as well as discussions with the campus management and its industrial partners, the MODAL presented its work...Read More
Pedro Maristany de las Casas successfully defended his dissertation “ New Multiobjective Shortest Path Algorithms“ at the Institute of Mathematics at Freie Universität Berlin on Mai 15, 2024. He developed the currently fastest algorithms for multicriteria shortest path optimization with three and more objectives for the 1-to-all, 1-to-1, and the time-dependent case, as well as...Read More
The Ab Ovo Group is continuing its successful partnership with the MobilityLab of the MODAL research campus in the upcoming five-year third main phase. “Sustainable mobility is a key issue for our society. Digital decision support systems can make a significant contribution to this. At their core are mathematical optimisation methods, which we are developing...Read More
