Winners of Interactive Sessions

Monday Interactive Session

Nico M. van Dijk,

Blood Platelet Optimization for Blood Bank Donated blood platelets have a limited shelf time. Outdating, shortages, age, and costs are to be minimized. Three phases are shown over six years.

1. The development of combined dynamic programming and simulation.
2. Its application and implementation to Dutch blood banks.
3. Its extension to transportation and hospitals.

 Tuesday Interactive Session

Apurva P. Samudra

We present an optimization-based framework for computer-aided molecular design. Group contribution methods are used to predict thermodynamic properties. We decompose the problem by decoupling the composition and the structure of the molecule. Compositions are found by solving transformed group contribution-based MILP. The structure generation problem is formulated as finding all trees with given degree sequence and solved using special weight-based cuts. Weights based on prime numbers handle the chemical redundancy efficiently and effectively.