The <i>Generalized Vehicle Routing Problem</i> (GVRP) is an extension of the classical <i>Vehicle Routing Problem</i> (VRP) in which the vertex set is partit...

This paper deals with the class of continuous-time singular uncertain linear systems with time-varying delay in the state vector. The uncertainties we are co...

It is now accepted that climate change is due to the cumulative and joint effect of multiple atmospheric trace constituents. The importance of adopting a com...

Tree based methods have not yet been adapted to handle mixed effects. Previous works extending them to accommodate correlated data are based on the multivari...

Should manufacturers of durable products such as automobiles and household appliances offer cash rebates to all consumers at the time of purchase, or offer t...

A magnet is a pair <i>u,v</i> of adjacent vertices such that the proper neighbours of <i>u</i> are completely linked to the proper neighbours of <i>v</i>. It...

This work proposes a statistical methodology to handle aggregate data. Aggregate data arises in many fields such as medical science, ecology, social science,...

This research assesses the impact of the various states of mind of Flow psychological theory (Csíkszentmihályi 1990) in relation to brand recall and recognit...

<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...