Part-orienting systems are employed in many manufacturing environments to feed work parts in correct orientation for proper operations. A part-orienting sys...

Many problems of globally optimal design have been solved by using monotonicity analysis. New monotonicity principles are obtained by exploiting non strict ...

Scheduling methods are proposed for a class of flexible manufacturing systems consisting of machine centers served by a cyclic conveyor. The minimization of...

Ordered sequential algorithms for the global minimization of univariate functions over an interval proceed by evaluating this function at successive points c...

The production scheduling problem considered in this paper is related to the planning of operations of a flexible manufacturing cell composed of a punch pres...

Consider N entities to be classified, and a matrix of diffimilarities between pairs of them. The split of a cluster is the smallest dissimilarity between an...

We consider a queue-like job shop in which a single resource (such as an operator, a robot, etc.) loads jobs onto machines. Jobs arrive at a station at know...

We propose a measure of the reliability of a telecommunication network based on the expected value of the lost call traffic due to failures in the network. ...

This paper describes a family of stochastic location-routing problems which consist of simultaneously locating a depot among a set of potential sites, of det...

In the class of piecewise deterministic systems such as presented by Richel [1975b], [1975c], one considers continuous-time systems disturbed by a jump proce...

A decomposition method is proposed for minimizing quadratic pseudoboolean functions. The result is: minimum of <i>f</i> = &#x2211;^p<sub><i>i</i>=...

Nous analysons dans cette thèse le marché européen du gaz naturel et les échanges d'électricité entre réseaux interconnectés dans le cadre de la théorie des ...

This note deals with the concept of stochastic equilibrium-programming <i>SEP</i> which has recently been proposed for the modeling of imperfect competition ...

The urban transit crew scheduling problem arises in mass transit corporations who have to create minimal cost bus driver schedule respecting both the collect...

In the analysis of discrete event systems, we need to consider sequences and/or matrices of elements in a given numerical set <i>D</i> (&#x2115;, Z, Q or &#x...

This paper deals with an infinite-horizon discrete-event dynamic programming model with discounting, and with Borel state and action spaces. Instead of the ...

Ce mémoire présente les résultats d'une étude exploratoire sur la gestion du marketing dans les entreprises de transport routier au Canada.</p>

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Old and new algorithms for the Maximum Satisfiability problem are studied. We first summarize the different heuristics previously proposed, i.e. the approxi...

In this paper, I give a counterexample to the closedness property of the set of possible current production vectors <i>Y_f</i> which is used by J....

Energy problems began a few years ago to receive proper treatment, but they are still most of the time dealt with from the supply side. The present research...