Metaheuristics for the optimisation and management of Transport and Logistics

IDSIA, Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale is a research institute active in both theoretical and applied research in the field of Operations Research and Artificial Intelli- gence. Since 1996 IDSIA has capitalized on the results obtained in theoretical research fields applying them to real world logistic and transport problems. In this short communication we outline the major results we have obtained in combinatorial optimisation problems and their ap- plications to real-world problems. We also show how the real world provides a source of con- tinuous inspiration to define new theoretical problems whose solutions can later have an impact on real problems.