In this paper, we present a mixed integer programming model for solving the long-term planning problem of an underground mine. This model establishes the seq...

It is increasingly important to provide the relevant data for strategic decisions related to oil production and the marketing of oil products. We propose the...

In terms of energy resources, Canada is an important player on the world scene. However, the energy systems of the Canadian provinces and territories are muc...

This paper proposes a heuristic approach based on network flow techniques to schedule the production in open-pit mines, while accounting for metal uncertaint...

This paper presents an analysis of Canadian energy and climate policies in terms of the coherence between federal and provincial/territorial strategies. Afte...

Onshore oil fields may contain hundreds of wells that use sophisticated and complex equipments. These equipments need maintenance regularly to keep the...

We compare the use of price-based policies or taxes, and quantity-based policies or quotas, for controlling emissions in a dynamic setup when the regulator...

We use a newly developed bottom-up model of the entire Canadian energy system (TIMES-Canada) to assess potentials for electrification of the road transport s...

First-generation R&D-based endogenous growth models have been criticized because they predict strong scale effects (growth rate proportional to the size of...

This paper proposes a dynamic game model of the process through which countries join international environmental agreements (IEAs). The model assumes that ...

The purpose of this paper is to study the periodic arc routing problem when the arcs of a network behave as customers, and sufficient material is delivered s...

We consider a two-player differential game of international emissions to represent the interactions between two groups of countries, namely, developed and ...

We model the role of the world's forests as a major carbon sink and consider the impact that forest depletion has on the accumulation of CO₂ in ...

Blackbox optimization typically arises when the functions defining the objective and constraints of an optimization problem are computed through a computer...

We develop a flexible discrete-time hedging methodology that miminizes the expected value of any desired penalty function of the hedging error within a gener...

We consider a problem of groundwater management in which a group of farmers overexploits a groundwater stock and causes excessive pollution. A Water Agency...

In the absence of an international environmental agreement (IEA) on climate change, a country may be reluctant to unilaterally implement environmental acti...

This paper develops a dynamic risk management model to determine a firm's optimal risk management strategy. This strategy has two elements: first, for low ...

In this article we study a network design problem that arises in the exploitation of wind energy. We formulate this problem as a mixed integer programming ...

This paper presents a framework to determine optimal maintenance planning of a fleet of complex and independent systems. They are made up of several major co...