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...

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...

<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 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 an overview of the column generation method developed at the GERAD research center in Montr&#39;eal for solving large scale vehicle routing ...

The Improved Primal Simplex algorithm IPS [8] is a dynamic constraint reduction method particularly effective on degenerate linear programs. It is able to ac...

We present a procedure for self calibration of a pinhole camera subject to radial distortion. Radial distortion parameters are estimated using a nonlinear le...

Frequency hopping is a feature in GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) cellular systems in which a frequency carrying the communication rapidly chan...

We consider a maritime inventory routing problem in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) business. Here, an actor is responsible for the routing of the fleet of s...

This paper addresses the split delivery vehicle routing problem with time windows (SDVRPTW) that consists of determining least-cost vehicle routes to service...

The minimum weight feedback vertex set problem (FVS) on series-parallel graphs can be solved in <i>O(n)</i> time by dynamic programming. This solution, howev...

Meaning cannot be based on dictionary definitions all the way down: at some point the circularity of definitions must be broken in some way, by grounding the...

We propose a class of projected Krylov methods for the solution of unsymmetric augmented systems of equations such as those arising from the finite-element f...

This paper proposes a construction heuristic and an adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic for the technician and task scheduling problem arising in a ...

Column generation algorithms are instrumental in many areas of applied optimization, where linear programs with an enormous number of columns need to be so...

Location-allocation problems arise in several contexts, including supply chain and data mining. In its most common interpretation, the basic problem consists...

The aim of this paper is to propose a model for the design of a robust rapid transit network. In this paper, a network is said to be robust when the effect o...