An article co-authored by Professors Okan Arslan, Ola Jabali and Gilbert Laporte received an honourable mention in the awarding of the Best Paper of the Year Award by the international association INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics (TSL).

The article ranked close second among the 26 submissions received this year at the INFORMS annual meeting for the Transportation Science and Logistics category.

This study, titled Exact Solution of the Evasive Flow Capturing Problem presents an innovative solution to a complex problem of intercepting illegal vehicles in a transportation network. It was first published in November 2018 in the journal Operations Research, which is part of the Financial Times list (FT50) of the 50 scientific journals with the most impact in the business sector.

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Sihem Taboubi, Professor at HEC Montréal and GERAD member, has just published with Pierre-Olivier Pineau et Simon Sigué the book "Games in Management Science" at Springer.

This book highlights the latest treatment of emerging and revisited problems in management science that honors the scientific achievements of Professor Georges Zaccour.

The book was launched as part of the Workshop on Dynamic Games in Management Sciences held in Montreal on October 24 and 25, 2019.

On October 16th, the 4th edition of the GERAD Day was held for members and students of GERAD only. For this occasion, six members made a presentation on their research interests. They were Charles Audet and Roland P. Malhamé (Polytechnique Montréal), Marilène Cherkesly and Claudio Contardo (UQAM), Roussos Dimitrakopoulos (McGill University), Raf Jans (HEC Montréal) and Daniel Lafond ( Thales Research and Technology). The day attracted more than 60 people.

Thank you all for your participation!

Title: Information structure and international environmental

Title: Confection de tournées de livraison dans un réseau urbain à l'aide de métaheuristiques et de méthodes de forage de données massives

Title: Three essays on dynamic games and sustainable fishery management

Congratulations to Kwassi Holali Degue, Ph.D. student at Polytechnique Montréal supervised by Jérôme Le Ny, who obtained the FRQNT Doctoral Research Scholarships of $21,000/year.

Congratulations to Professor Brigitte Jaumard for her nomination as Chief Scientist at the Computer Research Institute of Montréal (CRIM) since August 2019.

Three HEC Montréal students, members of GERAD, have been chosen to take part in the NSERC–CREATE Program on Machine Learning in Quantitative Finance and Business Analytics (Fin-ML FONCER).

- Audrey Leduc, MSc in gestion – business intelligence, supervised by Denis Larocque

- Rémi Galarneau-Vincent, PhD in administration – financial engineering, supervised by Geneviève Gauthier

- Ahmadreza Tavasoli, PhD in administration – financial engineering, supervised by Michèle Breton

On July 29, 2019, Professor Bruno Rémillard from HEC Montréal was awarded the title of IMS Fellow.

Title: Optimal change point detection by error maximization

IVADO funding program for excellence scholarships – PhD

• Antoine Prouvost (Polytechnique Montréal, Andrea Lodi)
  Learning to Select Cutting Planes in Integer Programming

IVADO funding program for excellence scholarships – MSc

• Tiphaine Bonniot de Ruisselet (Polytechnique Montréal, Dominique Orban)
  Accélération de méthodes d’optimisation pour les problèmes volumineux par évaluation inexact

Title: Accelerating TSP solving by using cost-based solution densities of relaxations

Title: Schémas de valorisation économique de grands ensembles de chauffe-eau électriques coordonnés par un agrégateur au sein d'un réseau intelligent

Title: Mécanismes d’attention pour les modèles convolutifs dans le cadre de la prédiction de trajectoire

Title: Optimisation du déséquilibre de phase sur un réseau de distribution via la gestion de la demande

Title : Trois variantes du problème de rotations pour une approche semi-intégrée de la planification d’horaires de personnel aérien

Title: Analyse et visualisation du processus d’écriture à l’aide des graphes

Title: Predicting buses end-trip delay using different ML models in order to modelize planning effectiveness