Axis 2: Decision support made in complex systems
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Several upper bounds on the largest Laplacian eigenvalue of a graph <i>G</i>, in terms of degree and average degree of neighbors of its vertices, have been ...
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This paper considers a shift scheduling problem that includes different forms of flexibility in terms of shift starting times, break lengths and break plac...
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Une étude du transport de roses coupées, en collaboration avec la plantation Mira- flores évalue l’exportation de Bogotá (Colombie) vers Miami (USA), port d...
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La localisation d'un site d'approvisionnement pour minimiser les coûts d'opérations est une problématique industrielle courante. Les variables classiques co...
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Several variants and generalizations of the Or-opt heuristic for the <i>Symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem</i> are developed and compared on random and pla...
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The objectives of this paper are twofold; we first demonstrate the flexibility of the mesh adaptive direct search (MADS) in identifying locally optimal algo...
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The continuous location-allocation problem requires finding sites for <i>m</i> new facilities in the plane in order to serve <i>n</i> users such that the to...
BibTeX referenceParallel Variable Neighborhood Search
Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) is a recent and effective metaheuristic for solving combinatorial and global optimization problems. It is capable of esca...
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Les problèmes de chargement statique de groupes turbo-alternateurs à vapeur peuvent être exprimés sous forme de minimisation d’une somme de fonction de coût ...
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Dynamic programming is applied to the economic dispatch problem with spin- ning reserve constraint. A first algorithm, based on a direct application of Bell...
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This paper introduces the first exact approach for constructing aircrew member personalized monthly work schedules when a preferential bidding system (PBS) ...
BibTeX referenceAnalysis of Global k-Means, an Incremental Heuristic for Minimum Sum-of-Squares Clustering
The global <i>k</i>-means heuristic is a recently proposed (Likas et al. 2003) incremental approach for minimum sum-of-squares clustering of a set <i>X</i> ...
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In this paper, we examine the sensitivity of trust-region algorithms on the param- eters related to the step acceptance and update of the trust region. We s...
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Recent developments in numerical methods for solving large differentiable nonlinear optimization problems are reviewed. State-of-the-art algorithms for solv...
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We consider the problem of separating two sets of points in an <i>n</i>-dimensional real space with a (hyper)plane that minimizes the sum of <i>L<sub>p</sub...
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In this paper we develop a Variable neighborhood search (VNS) heuristic for solving Mixed-Integer Programs (MIP’s). It uses CPLEX, the general-purpose MIP s...
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We characterize in this paper the credibility of incentive equilibrium strategies for the class of linear-state differential games. We derive a general cond...
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An upper bound is given on the variance of degrees of graphs with <i>n</i> vertices, <i>m</i> edges and maximum degree Δ. Particular cases of chemical...
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The fractional aircraft market is the fastest growing segment of the business aircraft industry. A fractional aircraft operation is complex - essentially an...
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<p> This paper introduces the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search (MADS) class of algorithms for nonlinear optimization. MADS extends the Generalized Pattern Searc...
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