Symposium 'Modern Modeling Approaches of Facility Location/Vehicle Routing/Transportation Problems for the Disaster-Stricken Zones'

The Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture with the support of the Eureast Platform is pleased to invite you to a research seminar featuring an international delegation of researchers visiting in the framework of the research project: “Modern Fuzzy Modeling Approaches of Facility Location/Vehicle Routing/Transportation Problems for the Disaster-Stricken Zones”

The project is funded by the Shota Rustaveli National Scientific Foundation (SRNSF) of Georgia in collaboration with the European Science Foundation.

The seminar will focus on recent advances in fuzzy modeling, artificial intelligence, emergency logistics, transportation planning, and decision-support systems for disaster-stricken regions.

All interested colleagues, researchers, and students are warmly welcome to attend.

Programme

14:00 – 14:10  Welcome address, Prof. dr. Herwig Reynaert, Vice Rector

14:10 -14:20    Introduction, Prof. Guy De Tré, Professor at the Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture

14:20 – 14:40 Prof. dr. Janusz Kacprzyk, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, “Artificial intelligence and smart support systems at the service of disaster recovery planning”

14:40 – 15:00 Prof. dr. Gia Sirbiladze, Department of Computer Science, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia, “Temporal modeling in emergency logistics planning for disaster region”

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 15:50 Assoc. Prof. dr. Bezhan Ghvaberidze, Department of Computer Science, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia, “Facilities location-transportation problem in emergency logistics planning for disaster region”

15:50 – 16:10 Dr. Bidzina Matsaberidze, Head of Information Technologies Department, TBC Bank, Georgia, “New fuzzy models for routing-transportation problem in emergency logistics planning for disaster region”

16:10 – 16:30 Q&A and Discussion

About the speakers

Janusz Kacprzyk 

Professor, Ph.D., D.Sc., Dr. h.c. (mult.)

Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of
Sciences, Poland.

Project consultant

Janusz Kacprzyk is Professor of Computer Science at the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, WIT – Warsaw School of Information Technology, and Chongqing Three Gorges University, Wanzhou, Chongqing, China, and Professor of Automatic Control at PIAP – Industrial Institute of Automation and Measurements in Warsaw, Poland. He is Honorary Foreign Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Yli Normal University, Xinjiang, China. He is Full Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Member of Academia Europaea, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, European Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member of the: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Spanish Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences (RACEF), Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, Flemish Royal Academy of Belgium of Sciences and the Arts (KVAB), National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. He was awarded with 7 honorary doctorates. He is Fellow of IEEE, IET, IFSA, EurAI, IFIP, AAIA, I2CICC, and SMIA.
His main research interests include the use of modern computation computational and artificial intelligence tools, notably fuzzy logic, in systems science, decision making, optimization, control, data analysis and data mining, with applications in mobile robotics, systems modeling, ICT etc. He authored 7 books, (co)edited more than 150 volumes, (co)authored more than 650 papers, including ca. 150 in journals indexed by the WoS. He is listed in 2020 and 2021 ”World’s 2% Top Scientists” by Stanford University, Elsevier (Scopus) and ScieTech Strategies and published in PLOS Biology Journal. He is the editor in chief of 8 book series at Springer, and of 2 journals, and is on the editorial boards of ca. 40 journals. He is President of the Polish Operational and Systems Research Society and Past President of International Fuzzy Systems Association.

Gia Sirbiladze

Professor, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Exact & Natural Sciences
Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia.

Professor Gia Sirbiladze is a leading expert in the field of intelligent simulation modeling, fuzzy decision-making problems in uncertain environments, systems research and engineering and others. He is an author and editor of more than 150 papers and two monographs in expert knowledge engineering and decision-making problems in uncertain environments. His research interest in Computer Science also includes systems science in engineering; fuzzy technologies in decision-making support systems; extreme dynamic systems – control, optimal control, filtration, identification and prediction; fuzzy discrete optimization problems in management, emergency management problems for the disaster-stricken regions. He has more than 40 years of experience in teaching and research at the Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia. He is a professor of applied informatics in at the Department of Computer Sciences of Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. He is a member of several international societies of computer sciences and engineering: IEEE, IFSR, MCDM and others. He also is a member of an editorial board of various international journals in computer sciences.

Bezhan Ghvaberidze

Assoc. Professor, Ph.D

Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Exact & Natural Sciences
Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

Assoc. professor Bezhan Ghvaberidze is an expert in the field of intelligent simulation modeling, operations research, discrete multi-criteria optimization, fuzzy optimization (fuzzy covering and partitioning problems, vehicle routing problems) and others. He is an author of more than 75 papers in decision-making problems in fuzzy uncertain environment. His research interest in Computer Science also includes systems science in engineering; fuzzy discrete optimization problems in management, emergency management problems for the disaster-stricken regions and others. He has more than 40 years of experience in teaching and research at the Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia. He is a Assoc. professor of theoretical informatics at the Department of Computer Sciences of Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. He is a member of several international societies of computer sciences and engineering: IEEE, MCDM and others.

Dr. Bidzina Matsaberidze, Ph.D, 

Head of the information technologies, department of commercial Bank TBC, Georgia

Bidzina Matsaberidze has obtained his academic degree (PhD in Computing) in the field of expert knowledge engineering and constructing exact and approximate algorithms for fuzzy partitioning and covering problems. He has more than 20 years of experience in software engineering and development, also 10 years of experience in teaching and doing research at Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia. Bidzina Matsaberidze is chief information/technology officer of one the biggest commercial institutions in Georgia and is responsible for developing and maintaining large scale software systems, as well as managing the team of approximately 1000 IT specialists. At the same time, he cooperates with the scientific research group of Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, doing research in the field of expert knowledge engineering, discrete multi-objective optimization, fuzzy optimization (fuzzy covering and partitioning problems) and vehicle routing problems. He is an author of more than 45 papers in decision-making problems in above mentioned field of science.