To satisfy a rising demand, agricultural practices have shifted from the organic fertilization of soils to intensive and highly specialized farming that uses...

We consider the problem of scheduling maintenance for a collection of machines under partial observations when the state of each machine deteriorates stochas...

Optimizing the hyperparameters and architecture of a neural network is a long yet necessary phase in the development of any new application. This consuming p...

The Bell numbers count the number of different ways to partition a set of \(n\) elements while the graphical Bell numbers count the number of non-equivalen...

The spread of an infectious disease such as COVID-19 is governed by complex social interactions that are challenging to model. Policy makers must take measur...

Drones have been getting more and more popular in many economy sectors. Both scientific and industrial communities aim at making the impact of drones even mo...

Robotic process automation (RPA) is used in various fields of human activity in order to implement faster and more secure processes through a reduction in th...

In this paper, we introduce a new variant of the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) that arises in parcel delivery by postal services. In addi...

This paper presents the properties of the minimum mean cycle-canceling algorithm for solving linear programming models. Originally designed by Goldberg ...

We introduce iterative methods named TriCG and TriMR for solving symmetric quasi-definite systems based on the orthogonal tridiagonalization process proposed...

Algorithm NCL is designed for general smooth optimization problems
    where first and second derivatives are available,
    including problems whose constrai...

Personnel scheduling aims to determine least-cost personnel schedules to meet the demand for employees in each period of a planning horizon. In this article,...

We empirically test the prediction of Pastor, stambaugh, and Taylor (2020) that green firms outperform brown firms when concerns about climate change increas...

Based on data from real call centers, we develop, test, and compare forecasting methods to predict the waiting time of a call upon its arrival to the center,...

We study a solution approach for a staffing problem in multi-skill call centers. The objective is to find a minimal-cost staffing solution while meeting a ta...

We present LatNet Builder, a software tool to find good parameters for lattice rules, polynomial lattice rules, and digital nets in base 2, for quasi-Monte...

This paper presents an algorithm for the identification of parameters for a stochastic hot water end-use process that drives a homogeneous population of ther...

Energy generation has always been a major stake in our economy and is all the more so with the increase in energy demand all over the world. In that context,...

The personalized crew rostering problem (CRP) consists of assigning pairings (sequences of flights, deadheads, connections, and rests, forming one or several...

The crew pairing problem (CPP) is solved in the first step of the crew scheduling process. It consists of creating a set of pairings (sequence of flights, co...