22.11.2004
Geir Hasle participated with a talk at LOGMA super seminar 16.11.04, with the title: "TOP - et eksempel på at veien fra strategisk forskning til samfunnsnytte kan være kort" (only available in Norwegian).

30.03.2004
Please see the Call for papers for a special issue of the Central European Journal of Operations Research on Rich Vehicle Routing Problems. Deadline for full paper: September 1, 2004.

02.09.2002
The third TOP Network meeting for researchers in transportation optimization will take place at Conference center of GlaxoSmithKline AS in Oslo on thursday 05.09.2002

26.08.2002
Dr. Michel Gendreau from CRT will visit Oslo second time in September 1-7, 2002 upon invitation from the TOP program. He will participate in TOP Network meeting, and work on several joint research projects.

23.08.2002
Marc Reimann from University of Vienna will visit SINTEF August 24th -September 1st, 2002 upon invitation from the TOP program. He will give talks on ant systems and experiences on real-life routing projects, work on two joint projects on applying ant systems to vehicle routing, and discuss about future collaboration. Marc Reimann is research assistant at Department of Production and Operations Management in University of Vienna.

08.-12.07.2002
The department of optimization at SINTEF applied mathematics participates the IFORS 2002 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.

13.06.2002
The paper titled "Tabu Search Heuristics for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows" by Olli Bräysy and Michel Gendreau is accepted for publication in Top, the journal of Spanish operations research society.

22.05.2002
The paper titled "A Reactive Variable Neighborhood Search for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows" by Olli Bräysy is accepted for publication in INFORMS Journal on Computing.

01.-12.05.2002
Geir Hasle and Olli Bräysy visit Montreal, and participate Optimization Days (see Conferences) and Spring School on Logistics and Distribution Management, and discuss about future collaboration with Dr. Michel Gendreau. 

27.11.2001
The sequence of talks by professor Gendreau during his visit December 5 og 6 has been changed. See Meetings for revised program.

09.11.2001
The second TOP Network meeting for researchers in transportation optimization will take place at Hotel Royal Christiania in Oslo Thursday December 6 morning, followed by the second TOP Industry meeting for potential users of TOP results in industry and the public sector in the afternoon. See Meetings for more information.

09.11.2001
Dr. Michel Gendreau, CRT will visit Norway December 2-8, 2001 upon invitation from the TOP programme. He will give talks, participate in TOP Network and Industry meetings, and discuss collaboration. Michel Gendreau is Professor of Operations Research at Université de Montréal. Since 1999, he has been the Director of the Centre for Research on Transportation (CRT), and the Directeur Général of the Montreal Bell University Laboratories. See Meetings for details.

10.10.2001
Dr. Geir Hasle enters upon his position as Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo.

19.09.2001
TOP web-site published on www.top.sintef.no

01.08.2001
Dr. Olli Braysy joins the SINTEF TOP team.

20.07.2001
Structure of TOP web-pages developed.

June 2001
Arne Løkketangen, Kjetil Fagerholt and Geir Hasle from the Norwegian TOP network participate in the TRISTAN IV conference (see Conferences).

07.06.2001
First TOP user meeting (see Meetings).

10.05.2001
Call for PhD stipend funded by TOP issued at NTNU

05.04.2001
First meeting in the Norwegian TOP Network (see Meetings).

27.03.2001
TOP contract between Research Council of Norway and SINTEF signed.

January 2001
Work starts on TOP VRP and TOP SPP.

12.12.2000
Research Council of Norway decides to give TOP funding based on scientific evaluation by international experts, and internal assessment of industrial relevance.

14.06.2000
TOP proposal sent to Research Council of Norway.

Created July 20 2001 by amr

Last updated january 30 2003 by tda