We present a fast tabu search method for the design of access tree networks. We connect a population of users to a set of switches using a variety of SONET ...

Le problème de plus court chemin avec contraintes de ressources consiste à trouver un chemin d'un point origine à un point destination de coût minimum et re...

We propose a network design model for flat networks using hybrid optical/electronic equipments. We describe a set of network components that can be taken in...

Cet article de vulgarisation donne un bref aperçu des travaux réalisés en gestion des opérations dans les grands réseaux de transport. On y fait principalem...

Given a set of flight legs to be flown by a single type of aircraft, the simultaneous aircraft routing and crew scheduling problem consists of determining a...

Let <i>G</i> be a multigraph containing no minor isomorphic to <i>K</i>_3,3 or <i>K</i>₅<i>e</i> (where <i>K</i>₅<i>e</i> de...

The standard way to solve the static economic dispatch problem with transmission losses is the penalty factor method. The problem is solved iteratively by a...

In several arc routing problems, it is necessary to take turn penalties into account when designing a solution. Traditionally, this is done through a trans...

Systematic change of neighborhood within a possibly randomized local search algorithm yields a simple and effective metaheuristic for combinatorial and glo...

This paper examines dynamic advertising and promotion strategies in a marketing channel where the retailer promotes the manufacturer's product, and the manu...

Weber's problem is to locate a facility in the Euclidean plane in order to minimize total transportation costs from that facility to a given set of users wi...

This paper presents a survey on the <i>Vehicle Routing Problem with Pickup and Delivery</i> in which a heterogeneous vehicle fleet based at multiple termina...

A model for the optimal location of new facilities in a competitive market is introduced under the hypothesis that customers' behavior can be modeled by ran...

This paper presents a survey of the research on the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW), an extension of the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Probl...

This case study analyses the use and sharing of a logistics package, a returnable container, between Canada Post and its large mailing customers. Canada Po...

Quatre regards sur la découverte, ceux du psychologue, de l'historien, du sociologue et du cognicien sont évoqués en quelques remarques illustrées d'exemples.

Mirkin's additive clustering (or qualitative factor analysis) algorithm explains similarities between entities by sequentially finding a cluster of entities...

It is shown that a geometrically planar fusene is uniquely determined by its boundary edge code. Surprisingly, the same conclusion is not true in general b...

The paper deals with the problem of sustaining over time a coordinated outcome in a two-member channel of distribution. In a dynamic game of pricing and ad...

Variable Neighborhood Search is a recent metaheuristic based on the idea of systematic change of neighborhood during both a descent phase and an exploration...