This paper proposes a framework to determine day-ahead capacity profiles that account for the stochastic demand generated by user behavior in smart buildings...

Tropical algebra is the algebra constructed over the tropical semifield \(R_{max}= (R\cup \{-\infty\},\max, +)\). We show here that every \(m\)-dimensi...

Visualization of high-dimensional data is counter-intuitive using conventional graphs. Parallel coordinates is proposed, as an alternative, to explore multiv...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a fast heuristic called FastCARP for the solution of very large-scale capacitated arc routing problems, with or witho...

Management and storage of waste and tailings are critical concerns in open pit mining, especially when the available space is limited but also to reduce the ...

Long-term open pit mine scheduling is generally assessed with a mixed integer programming (MIP) formulation which can be solved with different operations res...

Simple, intuitive, and scalable to large problems, \(k\)-means clustering is perhaps the most frequently-used technique for unsupervised learning. However...

With the increasing penetration of renewable energy sources in the electrical power grid, demand response via thermostatic appliances such as electric wate...

The airline crew scheduling problem, because of its size and complexity, is usually solved in two phases: the crew pairing problem and the crew assignment pr...

Scheduling problems on which constraints are imposed with regard to the temporal distances between successive executions of the same task have numerous appli...

In this article we consider a bi-objective vehicle routing problem in which, in addition to the classical minimization of the total routing cost, the operato...

Any telecommunication network is subject to a node or link failure at any given time. Such a failure may impact the quality of the services provided by the n...

We consider a static team problem in which agents observe correlated Gaussian observations and seek to minimize a quadratic cost. It is assumed that the ob...

Personnel scheduling consists of determining least-cost employee work schedules to cover the demand of one or several jobs in each period of a time horizon. ...

Most papers on digital advertising focus on the point of view of Internet companies such as Google and Microsoft, and were written by people working for thos...

The problem of output stabilization is studied for a class of linear hybrid systems subject to signal uncertainties: linear impulsive systems under dwell-t...

In this article, we discuss an alternative method for deriving conservative approximation models for two-stage robust optimization problems. The method main...

Maritime Guinea is a region that opens onto the Atlantic Ocean on about 300 km of coastline. This is characterized by the almost continuous formation of mang...

This paper proposes a hierarchical decision making model for a coupled planning and operation problem of an advanced microgrid. The proposed model, is formul...

The vertex cover problem and the dominating set problem are two well-known problems in graph theory. Their goal is to find the minimum size of a vertex subse...