Il est bien connu que les consommateurs stratégiques peuvent nuire aux profits des entreprises en retardant leurs achats pour acheter leurs produits à prix r...

This paper studies the strategic behavior of firms competing in the exploitation of a common-access productive asset, in the presence of pollution external...

Vehicle routing problems (VRPs) are among the most studied problems in operations research. Nowadays, the leading exact algorithms for solving many classes o...

We describe LNLQ for solving the least-norm problem $\min\ \|x\|$ subject to $Ax=b$. Craig's method is known to be equivalent to applying the conjug...

This paper targets a stochastic energy management problem. We first decouple the stochasticity of the global scenarios to local scenarios. Then, we use spat...

The parallel space decomposition of the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search algorithm (PSD-MADS proposed in 2008) is an asynchronous parallel method for constrained ...

The paper presents a model for the characterization of M2M traffic and the performance evaluation of LTE access to support M2M communication, embedded into ...

Nanotherapy represents a promising approach to target tumors with anticancer drugs while minimizing systemic toxicity. Evaluation of nanoparticle (NP) design...

On considère le problème de détermination de politiques optimales de publicité et de prix pour un spectacle. On suppose que les organisateurs désirent que t...

Derivative-free optimization (DFO) is the mathematical study of the optimization algorithms that do not use derivatives. One branch of DFO focuses on model-...

Recent progress in energy storage have contributed to create large-scale storage facilities and to decrease their costs. This may bring economic opportunitie...

Maintenance of power generators is essential for reliable and efficient electricity production. Because generators under maintenance are typically inactive, ...

Metros and other rapid transit systems increase the mobility of urban populations while decreasing congestion and pollution. There are now 187 cities with a ...

In emergency call centers (for police, firemen, ambulances, rescue teams) a single event can sometimes trigger many incoming calls to the center in a short p...

We study the behavior of a generalized splitting method for sampling from a given distribution conditional on the occurrence of a rare event. The method retu...

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

In this paper, we present an online reinforcement learning algorithm, called Renewal Monte Carlo (RMC), for infinite horizon Markov decision processes with ...

This paper focuses on the traveling salesman problem with time windows (TSPTW) that arises in postal services and parcel deliveries and has features differin...

We consider the maximum $k$-cut problem that involves partitioning the vertex set of a graph into $k$ subsets such that the sum of the weights of the...

In this paper, we establish the maximum number of basic shortest paths in Cartesian product graphs and bounds on the maximum number of the vertex-disjoint sh...