Retailers routinely face the strategic decision of how to promote their products. Two of the most common promotion strategies are bundling and discounting. D...

We investigate the impact of information asymmetry regarding the producer of remanufactured products on the decisions of a manufacturer and an authorized r...

to account for tail risks associated with an uncertain loss. With limited data, the empirical entropic risk estimator, i.e. replacing the expectation in the ...

Le Quatorzième atelier de résolution de problèmes industriels de Montréal, qui eut lieu du 13 au 17 mai 2024, fut organisé conjointement par le Centre de rec...

We consider a provider of electric vehicle charging that operates a network of charging stations and uses time-varying pricing to maximize profit and reduce ...

Le Treizième atelier de résolution de problèmes industriels de Montréal, qui eut lieu du 21 au 25 août 2023, fut organisé conjointement par le Centre de re...

Monte Carlo (MC) is widely used for the simulation of discrete time Markov chains. We consider the case of a $d$-dimensional continuous state space and w...

Randomized Quasi-Monte Carlo (RQMC) methods provide unbiased estimators whose variance often converges at a faster rate than standard Monte Carlo as a functi...

We consider the set of graphs that can be constructed from a one-vertex graph by repeatedly adding a clique or a stable set linked to all or none of the vert...

How can retailers incentivize customers to make healthier food choices? Price, convenience, and taste are known to be among the main drivers behind such choi...

Le résumé automatique de document a pour but de créer une version réduite d’un ensemble de textes pour aider des utilisateurs à mieux assimiler l’information...

Recommender systems provide personalized recommendations to their users for items and services. They do that using a model that is tailored to each user to i...

Pour couvrir les taxes à l'importation, un fabricant facture généralement un prix plus élevé sur un marché étranger que sur son marché domestique. La différe...

Nous considérons une entreprise offrant un produit opaque, c'est-à-dire un produit dont les caractéristiques complètes ne sont révélées au consommateur qu'a...

Seaports are highly vulnerable to climate-change induced events, which makes it necessary for them to invest in climate change adaptation measures to ensure ...

Recommender systems provide recommendations to their users for items and services by creating a model tailored to each user to infer their preferences based ...

In this study, we investigate the best remanufacturing strategy for the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and independent remanufacturer (IR) in an innov...

This research focuses on the bid optimization problem in the real-time bidding setting for online display advertisements, where an advertiser, or the adverti...

Personnel scheduling consists in determining employee work schedules (sequences of work shifts and days off) to cover the demands of multiple jobs over a pl...

This paper considers the pricing of a new product in the face of sophisticated consumer behaviors. At the individual level, consumers are forward-looking, wh...