We are interested in blackbox optimization for which the user is aware of monotonic behaviour of some constraints defining the problem. That is, when incr...

We are witnessing an acceleration in the uptake of renewable energy in power systems. Because of the associated variability and uncertainty of renewables, ...

Recommender systems make use of different sources of information for providing users with recommendations of items. Such systems are often based on collabor...

Given a set of duties to be operated over a cyclic one-week horizon and groups of drivers with similar characteristics, the cyclic bus driver rostering probl...

The present work is in a context of derivative-free optimization involving direct search algorithms guided by surrogate models of the original problem. The...

We consider a personalized employee scheduling problem with characteristics present in retail stores consisting of multiple departments. In the setting under...

The purpose of this guide is to present steps and tools to establish a decision-aid process in an organization linked to public health. This decision-aid p...

Ce guide vise à présenter les différentes étapes et outils de mise en place d'un processus d'aide à la décision, au sein d'une organisation liée à la santé...

In the interest of full disclosure, the reader is advised that I am biased positively towards the book considered here as I have collaborated with its first ...

Smart homes have the potential to achieve efficient energy consumption: households can profit from appropriately scheduled consumption. By 2020, 35% of all h...

This is a two-part work. In Part I, low-cost and representative reduced-fidelity models of two versions of the HYDROTEL hydrological model are constructed, u...

Dealing with computationally-intensive calibration processes is still common in distributed hydrological modelling despite the computing power growth. Comput...

Poorly formulated initiatives on the port planning strategy are have negative effects on the tropical coastal zone. To reduce these effects, it is importan...

Operations Research (OR) has a very important role to play in credit scoring for building models that can help the lending organization to make a good decisi...

The open-pit mine production scheduling problem aims to optimize the net present value of a mining asset. Several solution methods have been proposed to find...

We develop a general equality-constrained nonlinear optimization algorithm based on a smooth penalty function proposed by Fletcher (1970). Although it was ...

Algorithms for finding sparse solutions of underdetermined systems of linear equations have been the subject of intense interest in recent years, sparked b...

Microgrid, a promising component of smart grid, will potentially yield a free electricity market. This paper proposes a novel construction for a community mi...

In this paper, we propose an intuitive way to couple several dynamic time series models even when there are no innovations. This extends previous work for m...

The airline crew scheduling problem involves determining schedules for airline crew members such that all the scheduled flights over a planning horizon (usua...