This paper explores new connections between the satisfiability problem and semidefinite programming. We show how the process of resolution in satisfiability...

This chapter provides an overview of cone optimization models for facility layout and VLSI floorplanning problems. We focus on two classes of problems to w...

Parameterizing source code for architecture-bound optimization is a common approach to high-performance programming but one that makes the programmer's task ...

This paper presents an hybrid Variable Neighborhood-Tabu Search algorithm to solve the Site Dependent Vehicle Routing Problem (SDVRPTW). Our implementation o...

We extend the contingent claims framework for the levered firm in explicitly modeling the resolution of financial distress under formal bankruptcy as a non-c...

We investigate the optimum control of a stochastic system, in the presence of both exogenous (control-independent) stochastic state variables and endogenous...

In the service industry, the employees perform work shifts and are assigned to interruptible activities and uninterruptible tasks during their shifts. The ...

Cont et al. 2007 recently showed that coherent risk measures are not robust with respect to changes in large data. In this paper we show that robust risk ...

The topic of this paper is the evaluation of QoS parameters in live Pre-Wimax environments. The main contribution is the validation of an analytical delay-ji...

We consider a cement delivery problem with an heterogeneous fleet of vehicles and several depots. The demands of the customers are typically larger than the ...

The objective in the continuous facility location problem with limited distances is to minimize the sum of distance functions from the facility to the cust...

The GRIEG model is a hybrid model of demo-economic projections that combines two approaches: the econometric approach - based on the micro-economy - of the N...

Les outils informatiques de capture en temps réel (Scriptlog, inputlog ou Eye and Pen) procurent des données d'une qualité inégalée (par les autres méthodes)...

Community detection in networks based on modularity maximization is currently done with hierarchical divisive or agglomerative as well as with partitioning h...

Heuristics are widely applied to modularity maximization models for the identification of communities in complex networks. We present an approach to be appli...

We present a new class of dynamic bargaining problems, called "bargaining problems with intertemporal maximin payoffs," that may reflect sustainability probl...

We develop a contingent claims model of a firm in financial distress with a formal account for renegotiations under the Chapter 11 bankruptcy procedure. Sh...

We consider derivative-free optimization, and in particular black box optimization, where the functions to minimize and the functions representing the con...

Umbrella branding is a strategy that consists in using the same name to market different products which may, or may not, be related. The purpose of this pape...

A branch and bound strategy is proposed for solving the clusterwise regression problem, extending Brusco's repetitive branch and bound algorithm (RBBA). The ...