<p>Lasso, or <img src="/cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?\ell^1"> regularized least squares has been explored extensively for its remarkable sparsity properties. The firs...

<p>The class of Mesh Adaptive Direct Search (MADS) algorithms is designed for the optimization of constrained black-box problems. The purpose of this paper i...

This paper deals with the design of equilibrium solutions with coupled constraints in dynamic games of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission abatement. Self-enforcin...

This work presents an exact branch-cut-and-price algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) where the well-known clique inequalities...

This paper presents an analysis of the optimal oil production quotas of OPEC under a worldwide climate regime imposing a limitation on the radiative forcing....

This study proposes a game theoretic approach to model and analyze the process of utilizing biomass for power generation considering three players; distribut...

We compare the effectiveness and efficiency of alternative operational dispatching policies that are integrated into the design phase of a circular material ...

This paper presents a model for identifying general goals of anonymous consumers visiting a retail website. When visiting a transactional website, consumers ...

This paper presents an overview of the column generation method developed at the GERAD research center in Montr&#39;eal for solving large scale vehicle routing ...

Necessary and sufficient conditions are provided for existence of a simple graph <i>G</i>, and for a simple and connected graph <i>G'</i> with given numbers ...

We consider an inequality of the type <img src="/cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?A\cdot x\le B\cdot x"> over the idempotent semifield <img src="/cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?R_{...

Question retrieval systems, unlike question answering systems, exploit the knowledge contained in previously answered questions to answer new ones by returni...

Based upon a robust optimization technique, Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS), we use simulation to find rules for identifying the correct Minkowski paramet...

The Improved Primal Simplex algorithm IPS [8] is a dynamic constraint reduction method particularly effective on degenerate linear programs. It is able to ac...

Vector periodic autoregressive time series models (PVAR) form an important class of time series for modeling data derived from climatology, hydrology, econom...

In this paper, we propose a Partial Differential Equation formulation for the value of an option when the underlying asset's price is described by a discrete...

There has been a wide interest to extend univariate and multivariate nonparametric procedures to clustered and hierarchical data. Traditionally, parametric m...

We present a procedure for self calibration of a pinhole camera subject to radial distortion. Radial distortion parameters are estimated using a nonlinear le...

The Protected Working Capacity Envelope (PWCE) concept was proposed by Grover (2004) in order to simplify network and operation management in survivable WDM ...

We review the basic principles of Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods, the randomizations that turn them into variance-reduction techniques, the integration erro...