Most reinforcement learning methods for adaptive-traffic-signal-control require training from scratch to be applied on any new intersection or after any modi...

Hybrid renewable energy systems (HRES), which co-locate two or more renewable energy sources, have proven to be promising frameworks for harnessing complemen...

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

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...

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

The existing technologies that update geostatistically simulated models of mineral deposits cannot self-learn from incoming new information generated in oper...

A new mathematical model for stochastic short-term optimization of mining complexes is presented that simultaneously optimizes the short-term extraction sequ...

Personnel scheduling consists of determining least-cost work schedules to cover the demand of multiple jobs expressed in number of employees per job and peri...

In this paper, we study the competition between national brands and private labels (or store brands) by analyzing the impacts of their presence on strategies...

Microgrid, a promising component of smart grid, will potentially yield a free electricity market. This paper proposes a novel construction for a community mi...

The Integral Simplex Using Decomposition (ISUD) algorithm has been developed recently to solve large set partitioning problems (SPPs) in a primal way, i.e.,...

New digital technologies including the development of advanced sensors and monitoring devices have enabled a mining complex to acquire new information abou...

Personnel scheduling aims at determining the cheapest work schedules to cover the demand for one or more tasks at each period of a given horizon. During the ...

Clustering is the subject of active research in several fields such as operations research, statistics, pattern recognition, and machine learning. The range ...

The purpose of this study is to design incentives for price and advertising coordination in a bilateral monopoly. I prove that a wholesale price reduction ...

This paper focuses on designing a state estimator for a discrete-time SEIR epidemic model of an influenza-like illness. It is assumed that only sets of adm...

Short-term production scheduling in open pit mining consists of defining the extraction sequence and process allocation of mineralized material over time-sca...

As more and more data about mining complex operations is collected and stored, it becomes increasingly important for computer systems to help human operators...

Given an integer solution, the integral simplex using decomposition (ISUD) seeks a descent direction that leads to an improved adjacent integer solution. It ...

We consider a dynamic game model of ride-sourcing, where a large number of private car owners provide rides to randomly appearing customers. Free drivers c...