A small polygon is a polygon of unit diameter. The maximal area of a small polygon with $n=2m$ vertices is not known when $m \ge 7$. In this paper, w...

Le Dixième atelier de résolution de problèmes industriels de Montréal, qui eut lieu du 13 au 27 août 2020, fut organisé conjointement par le Centre de recher...

Pour un graphe $G$, la matrice du laplacien sans signe $Q(G)$ esf définie comme $Q(G) = D(G) + A(G)$, o`u $A(G)$ est la matrice d'adjacence ...

Nous étudions la stabilité des accords environnementaux internationaux portant sur une cible commune pour le niveau d'émissions polluantes. En signant l'ac...

The increasingly complex energy systems are turning the attention towards model-free control approaches such as reinforcement learning (RL). This work propos...

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...

Binary quadratic programming (BQP) is a class of combinatorial optimization problems comprising binary variables, quadratic objective functions and linear/no...

This paper aims to identify the sources of value created in the strategic plan of a mining complex when the adaptive simultaneous stochastic optimization of ...

The geometallurgical models that predicting the throughput/comminution performance of the a processing plant often rely on rock hardness models, which are ba...

In this paper, we consider both first- and second-order techniques to address continuous optimization problems arising in machine learning. In the first-orde...

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...

Nous étudions une classe de jeux déterministes à horizon fini à deux joueurs à somme non nulle où les joueurs sont dotés de différents types de commandes....

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

Dans cet article, nous adressons le problème de l’ordonnancement de l’arrêt/démarrage des génératrices dans un microréseau selon une approche visant à s’assu...

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 ...

The Quadratic Knapsack Problem (QKP) is a well-known combinatorial optimization problem which amounts to maximizing a quadratic function of binary variables,...

This article presents a novel stochastic optimization model that simultaneously optimizes the short-term extraction sequence, shovel relocation, scheduling o...

An innovative strategic mine planning approach is applied to a multi-mine and multi-process gold mining complex that simultaneously considers feasible capita...

The primal simplex algorithm is still one of the most used algorithms by the operations research community. It moves from basis to adjacent one until optimal...

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