Dear All,
[Apologies for the cross-posting]
The INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society (TSL) and Meituan, a platform offering location-based consumer products and services including entertainment, dining, delivery, travel, and more, are partnering to provide researchers and practitioners worldwide with access to Meituan's operational-level food delivery data in the first INFORMS TSL Data-Driven Research Challenge. This initiative aims to foster data-driven research on real-world challenges. Participants are expected to develop data-driven optimization models using the real data provided by Meituan, to address some of the suggested questions or to explore questions of their interest. The selected finalists will be invited for a Fast-Track review to a Special Issue of Transportation Science on "Machine Learning, Analytics, and Optimization in Home Delivery Operations."
- Participants can submit the paper to the Manuscript Central of Transportation Science and select "The First INFORMS TSL Data-Driven Research Challenge."
- Paper requirement: TS paper template.
- The submission deadline is March 15, 2025.
If you are interested, please take a look at
this link or the attached files for more details.
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Hai Wang
Associate Professor
Singapore Management University
Singapore
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