Arild Hoff

Professional Homepage

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Associate Professor

Molde University College

P.O.Box 2110, 6402 Molde, Norway

Telephone: +47 71 21 42 02, Fax: +47 71 21 41 00

Mobile phone: +47 91 13 14 10

Email: Arild.Hoff@himolde.no

Personal Homepage: http://home.c2i.net/arildh

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Education:

• 1994 Cand. Mag. - Molde University College
• 1998 Cand. Scient. - University of Bergen
• 2006 PhD. - Molde University College

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Research interests:

• Optimization Group – Molde University College
• The DOMinant Project (E-room)
• Metaheuristics
• Tabu Search
• Genetic Algorithms
• Ant Colony Optimization
• Artificial Intelligence
• Global optimization
• VRP Web
• Vehicle Routing
• Traveling Salesman Problem
• TSPTW - benchmarks
• OR Problems
• Research and Writing

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Teaching:

LOG703 Models for Inventory and Production Management II LOG502 Management Models in Logistics IN305 Cisco Networking Academy Program IN151 Programming in practice IN215 Interactive System Design IN160 Advanced Programming IN150 Programming IN210 Object Oriented Programming

2010, 2011, 2012 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 2002, 2003, 2004 2002 2001 2000, 2003, 2004 1999, 2000, 2001 1998

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Papers/Technical Reports:

• Hoff, A., Andersson, H., Christiansen, M., Hasle, G., Løkketangen, A. (2010).

Industrial aspects and literature survey: Fleet composition and routing. Computers & Operations Research, 37 (12), 2041-2061

• Andersson, H., Hoff, A., Christiansen, M., Hasle, G., Løkketangen, A. (2010).

Industrial aspects and literature survey: Combined inventory management and routing. Computers & Operations Research, 37 (9), 1515-1536

• Hoff, A., Lium, A.-G., Løkketangen, A., and Crainic, T. G. (2010).
  A Metaheuristic for Stochastic Service Network Design. Journal of Heuristics, 16 (5), 653-679.
  
  
• Hoff, A., Gribkovskaia, I., Laporte, G. and Løkketangen, A. (2009).
  Lasso Solution Strategies for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Pickups and Deliveries. European Journal of Operational Research, 192, 755-766.
  
• Hoff, A., and Løkketangen, A. (2008).
  A Tabu Search Approach for Milk Collection in Western Norway. Molde University College, Working Paper 2008:6.
  
• Hoff, A. (2006).
  Heuristics for Rich Vehicle Routing Problems. PhD Thesis, Molde University College.
  
• Hoff, A., and Løkketangen, A. (2006).
  Creating Lasso-solutions for the Traveling Salesman Problem with Pickup and Delivery by Tabu Search. Central European Journal of Operations Research 14, 125-140.
  
• Hoff, A., and Løkketangen, A. (1997).
  Finding Prediction Models by Heuristic Search. Norsk Informatikkonferanse, 207-218. - pdf
  
• Hoff, A., Løkketangen, A., and Mittet, I. (1996).
  Genetic Algorithms for 0/1 Multidimensional Knapsack Problems. Norsk Informatikkonferanse, 291-302. - pdf
  

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Conferences attended:

Euro 2012 Nordic Optimization Symposium 2012 Odysseus 2012 IFORS 2011 Nordic Optimization Symposium 2010 Tristan VII 2010 ALIO-Informs 2010 DOMinant Workshop 2009 IRIS32 2009 Odysseus 2009 Informs Annual Meeting 2008 VIP'08 eScience Meeting 2008 Nordic Optimization Symposium 2007 TRISTAN VI 2007 eScience Meeting 2007 Odysseus 2006 MIC 2005 Solving Rich VRP Models 2005 Today’s research training – tomorrow’s scientific quality 2005 ICS 2005 TraLog 2004 CORS/INFORMS 2004 Spring School on Transportation 2004 Optimization days 2004 ISMP 2003 Ecco 2003 Summer School on Metaheuristics 2003 Nordic MPS '02 Norsk Informatikk Konferanse 1997 Norsk Informatikk Konferanse 1996

Vilnius, Lithuania Trondheim, Norway Mykonos, Greece Melbourne, Australia Århus, Denmark Tromsø, Norway Buenos Aires, Argentina Molde Norway Molde Norway Cesme, Turkey Washington DC, USA Oslo, Norway Geilo, Norway Oslo, Norway Phuket, Thailand Geilo, Norway Altea, Spain Vienna, Austria Molde, Norway Pärnu, Estonia Annapolis, Maryland USA Molde, Norway Banff, Canada Montreal, Canada Montreal, Canada Copenhagen, Denmark Molde, Norway Tenerife, Canary Islands Bergen, Norway Voss, Norway Alta, Norway

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