Thermostatically-controlled loads have a significant impact on electricity demand after service is restored following an outage, a phenomenon known as cold l...

With the ongoing energy transition, electric power and energy systems are becoming increasingly multi-dimensional and complex with higher levels of uncertain...

The time-stamped database provided by Google traces the code contributions to Chrome browser on the period from September 2008 to January 2014. It describes ...

In blackbox optimization, evaluation of the objective and constraint functions is time consuming. In some situations, constraint values may be evaluated in...

In this paper, we study a distributionally robust multi-item newsvendor problem, where the demand distribution is unknown but specified with a general event-...

A piecewise constant Mayer cost function is used to model optimal control problems in which the state space is partitioned into several regions, each having ...

The use of space through satellites is more and more important for nations, companies, and individuals. However, since the first satellite was sent up in 19...

We introduce an iterative method named GPMR for solving 2X2 block unsymmetric linear systems. GPMR is based on a new process that reduces simultaneously...

This paper presents an efficient method for extracting the second-order sensitivities from a system of implicit nonlinear equations. We design a custom aut...

Production yield can be highly volatile and uncertain, especially in industries where exogenous and environmental factors such as the climate or raw material...

For a simple connected graph \(G\), let \(D(G), ~Tr(G)\), \(D^{L}(G)=Tr(G)-D(G)\), and \(D^{Q}(G)=Tr(G)+D(G)\) be the distance matrix, the diagonal m...

A small polygon is a polygon of unit diameter. The maximal area of a small polygon with \(n=2m\) vertices is not known when \(m \ge 7\). In this paper, w...

The Tenth Montreal IPSW took place on August 13-27, 2020, and was jointly organized by the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) and the Institute for Dat...

For a graph \(G\), the signless Laplacian matrix \(Q(G)\) defined as \(Q(G) = D(G) + A(G)\), where \(A(G)\) is the adjacency matrix of \(G\) and `...

This paper studies a stochastic variant of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) where both customer locations and demands are uncertain. In particular, potentia...

This paper introduces the consistent production routing problem in a setting with multiple plants and products. The problem consists in finding minimum-cost ...

We propose a tone-based event study to reveal the aggregate abnormal tone dynamics in media articles around earnings announcements. We test whether they co...

We study bin-packing and lot-sizing decisions in an integrated way. Such a problem appears in several manufacturing settings where items first need to be cu...

In this paper we examine the stability of international environmental agreements about a (common) emissions target. By signing the agreement, the parties d...

The increasingly complex energy systems are turning the attention towards model-free control approaches such as reinforcement learning (RL). This work propos...