Exploring the Frontier of Combinatorial Optimization and Machine Learning: Applications to Vehicle Routing and Support Vector Machines

Abstract

I would like to thank my family: my parents, Mariza, Jaci, and Emilio, and to my girlfriend, Daniella, and her family. Thanks for all the fantastic support, comprehension, and inspiration that helped to keep me focused on my research.I also would like to express my deep gratitude to my advisor Thibaut Vidal for all the outstanding support, lessons, guidance, car rides to university, funny moments, and friendship. I learned so much from his lectures, conversations, attitude, and example.