# Charles Audet

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A small polygon is a polygon of unit diameter. The maximal width of an equilateral small polygon with $$n=2^s$$ vertices is not known when $$s \ge 3$$. T...

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This work is in the context of blackbox optimization where the functions defining the problem are expensive to evaluate and where no derivatives are availabl...

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The goal of the Encyclopedia of Optimization is to introduce the reader to a complete set of topics that sh...

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A small polygon is a polygon of unit diameter. The maximal perimeter of a convex equilateral small polygon with $$n=2^s$$ vertices is not known when (s ...

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NOMAD is software for optimizing blackbox problems. In continuous development since 2001, it constantly evolved with the integration of new algorithmic...

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This paper proposes a way to combine the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search (MADS) algorithm with the Cross-Entropy (CE) method for non smooth constrained optimizat...

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This work reviews blackbox optimization applications over the last twenty years, addressed using direct search optimization methods. Emphasis is placed on...

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The design of key nonlinear systems often requires the use of expensive blackbox simulations presenting inherent discontinuities whose positions in the varia...

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the next society transformation builder. Massive AI-based applications include cloud servers, cell phones, cars, and pandemic...

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The solution to a biobjective optimization problem is composed of a collection of trade-off solution called the Pareto set. The present work studies the que...

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In derivative-free and blackbox optimization, the objective function is often evaluated through the execution of a computer program seen as a blackbox. It ...

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This work proposes strategies to handle three types of constraints in the context of blackbox optimization: binary constraints that simply indicate if they a...

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In an optimization problem, multiplying an inequality constraint by a positive scalar has no effect on the domain. However, such a transformation might have...

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A small polygon is a polygon of unit diameter. The question of finding the largest area of small $$n-$$gons has been answered for some values of $$n$$`....

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This work introduces StoMADS, a stochastic variant of the mesh adaptive direct-search (MADS) algorithm originally developed for deterministic blackbox optim...

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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...

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

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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...

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

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In the recent years, the development of new algorithms for multiobjective optimization has considerably grown. A large number of performance indicators has...

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