This paper introduces a new step to the Direct Search Method (DSM) to strengthen its convergence analysis. By design, this so-called covering step may e...

The Harwell Subroutine Library (HSL) is a renowned suite of efficient and robust numerical algorithms designed to tackle complex mathematical problems such a...

This work introduces a novel multi-fidelity blackbox optimization algorithm designed to alleviate the resource-intensive task of evaluating infeasible points...

This study addresses large-scale personnel scheduling problems in the service industry by combining mathematical programming with data mining techniques to...

We consider the set of graphs that can be constructed from a one-vertex graph by repeatedly adding a clique or a stable set linked to all or none of the vert...

The Network Design Problem with Vulnerability Constraints and Probabilistic Edge Reliability (NDPVC-PER) is an extension of the NDPVC obtained by additionall...

How can retailers incentivize customers to make healthier food choices? Price, convenience, and taste are known to be among the main drivers behind such choi...

"L'eau c'est la vie" is a well known french expression for "Water is life", which reflects the fact that water is undoubtedly the most vital resource in the ...

In this paper, we describe a branch-and-price algorithm for the personalized nurse scheduling problem. The variants that appear in the literature involve a ...

High throughput satellites (HTS), with their digital payload technology, are expected to play a key role as enablers of the upcoming 6G networks. HTS are mai...

This paper investigates a variant of the traveling salesman problem (TSP) with speed optimization for a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), simultaneousl...

Improving neural network optimizer convergence speed is a long-standing priority. Recently, there has been a focus on quasi-Newton optimization methods, whi...

Benders decomposition has been applied significantly to tackle large-scale optimization problems with complicating variables, which, when temporarily fixed, ...

Historically, the training of deep artificial neural networks has relied on parallel computing to achieve practical effectiveness. However, with the increas...

We introduce an iterative solver named MINARES for symmetric linear systems \(Ax \approx b\), where \(A\) is possibly singular. MINARES is based on t...

Operations research specialists at the OCP Group, the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, and the Polytechnique Montreal operationalized a system optimizing ...

Decision trees are highly interpretable models for solving classification problems in machine learning (ML). The standard ML algorithms for training decision...

We introduce a variant of the proximal gradient method in which the quadratic term is diagonal but may be indefinite, and is safeguarded by a trust region. ...

Tactical wireless networks are used in cases where standard telecommunication networks are unavailable or unusable, e.g. disaster relief operations. We fully...

Recommender systems provide personalized recommendations to their users for items and services. They do that using a model that is tailored to each user to i...