IPIC2018: 5TH INTERNATIONAL PHYSICAL INTERNET CONFERENCE
IPIC2018 DOCTORAL CO PROGRAM
Sunday, June 17th

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09:45-10:00 Session 2: Opening

Kick off of the 1st International Physical Internet Doctoral Colloquium with opening words of Iris vis.

10:00-11:30 Session 3A: Round 1: Presentations (Club Lounge)

Hyperconnected Mobile Buffer Storage Capacity Management
Presenter:          Louis Faugere
Discussant 1:     Ido Orenstein
Discussant 2:     Lienert Cosemans
Professor:          Eric Ballot

Delivery Process with Flexibility Using Automated Parcel Lockers
Presenter:          Ido Orenstein
Discussant 1:     Louis Faugere
Discussant 2:     Albert Schrotenboer
Professor:          Walid Klibi

Chair:
Gerlach van der Heide (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
10:00
Louis Faugere (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
Hyperconnected Mobile Buffer Storage Capacity Management (abstract)
10:45
Ido Orenstein (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Elad Sadan (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Delivery Process with Flexibility Using Automated Parcel Lockers (abstract)
10:00-11:30 Session 3B: Round 1: Presentations (Boardroom)

Steering past the language barrier: Managing multilingual workplace interactions in the European road haulage sector
Presenter:          Bianca Dijkstra
Discussant 1:    
Walid Mourhrib
Discussant 2:     Nayeon Kim
Professor:          An Caris

Physical Internet: Stakeholder Mapping
Presenter:          Walid Mourhrib
Discussant 1:     Bianca Dijkstra
Discussant 2:     Joren Gijsbrechts
Professor:           Benoit Montreuil

Chair:
Nicol Saaltink (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
10:00
Bianca Dijkstra (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen - Campus Fryslân, Netherlands)
Steering past the language barrier: Managing multilingual workplace interactions in the European road haulage sector (abstract)
10:45
Walid Mourhrib (University of Huddersfield, UK)
Sahar Validi (University of Huddersfield, UK)
Samir Dani (University of Huddersfield, UK)
Physical Internet: Stakeholder Mapping (abstract)
12:00-13:00 Session 4: Interactive plenary session on publishing paper on Physical Internet

A question and answer session with Eric Ballot and Benoit Montreuil.
Central theme: “Learning how to position current Physical Internet research into existing literature in order to enable publications in high-quality scientific journals”

14:00-15:30 Session 5A: Round 2: Presentations (Club Lounge)

Hyperconnected Physical Internet Hubs
Presenter:          Shannon Buckley            
Discussant 1:     Albert Schrotenboer
Discussant 2:     Bianca Dijkstra
Professor:          An Caris

A decomposition framework for routing and transportation in the physical internet
Presenter:          Albert Schrotenboer
Discussant 1:     Shannon Buckley
Discussant 2:     Ido Orenstein
Professor:          Walid Klibi

Chair:
Gerlach van der Heide (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
14:00
Shannon Buckley (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
Benoit Montreuil (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
Hyperconnected Physical Internet Hubs (abstract)
14:45
Albert Schrotenboer (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Iris Vis (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
A decomposition framework for routing and transportation in the physical internet. (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 5B: Round 2: Presentations (Boardroom)

The Role of Maritime Ports in the Physical Internet
Presenter:          Patrick Fahim
Discussant 1:     Isabella Sanders
Discussant 2:    
Walid Mourhrib
Professor:          Benoit Montreuil

Hyperconnected Fresh Supply Chains
Presenter:          Isabella Sanders
Discussant 1:     Patrick Fahim
Discussant 2:     Roel Post
Professor:          Eric Ballot

Chair:
Nicol Saaltink (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
14:00
Patrick Fahim (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
The Role of Maritime Ports in the Physical Internet (abstract)
14:45
Isabella Sanders (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
Hyperconnected Fresh Supply Chains (abstract)
16:00-17:30 Session 6A: Round 3: Presentations (Club Lounge)

Stochastic Inventory Allocation and Deployment in Hyperconnected Fulfillment Networks
Presenter:          Nayeon Kim
Discussant 1:     Roel Post
Discussant 2:     Patrick Fahim
Professor:          Eric Ballot

The impact of supplier and product characteristics on Vendor-Managed Inventory
Presenter:          Roel Post
Discussant 1:     Nayeon Kim
Discussant 2:     Isabella Sanders
Professor:          Benoit Montreuil

Chair:
Gerlach van der Heide (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
16:00
Nayeon Kim (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
Walid Klibi (Kedge Business School, France)
Benoit Montreuil (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
Stochastic Inventory Allocation and Deployment in Hyperconnected Fulfillment Networks (abstract)
16:45
Roel Post (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Paul Buijs (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Jaap Wieringa (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Hans Wortmann (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
The impact of supplier and product characteristics on Vendor-Managed Inventory (abstract)
16:00-17:30 Session 6B: Round 3: Presentations (Boardroom)

A deep reinforcement learning approach for synchronized multi-modal replenishment
Presenter:          Joren Gijsbrechts
Discussant 1:     Lienert Cosemans
Discussant 2:     Shannon Buckley
Professor:          An Caris

Option contracts in synchromodal transport
Presenter:          Lienert Cosemans
Discussant 1:     Joren Gijsbrechts
Discussant 2:     Louis Faugere
Professor:          Walid Klibi

Chair:
Nicol Saaltink (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
16:00
Joren Gijsbrechts (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Robert Boute (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
A deep reinforcement learning approach for synchronized multi-modal replenishment (abstract)
16:45
Lienert Cosemans (UHasselt - Hasselt University, Belgium)
Inneke Van Nieuwenhuyse (UHasselt - Hasselt University, Belgium)
An Caris (UHasselt - Hasselt University, Belgium)
Option contracts in synchromodal transport (Research proposal) (abstract)