Nous proposons une méthode de régularisation pour les problèmes aux moindres carrés non linéaires avec contraintes d'égalité. Notre appliquons les approches...

In demand-response programs, aggregators balance the needs of generation companies and end-users. This work proposes a two-phase framework that shaves the ag...

We are interested in blackbox optimization for which the user is aware of monotonic behaviour of some constraints defining the problem. That is, when incr...

Nous assistons présentement à une accélération dans le développement des énergies renouvelables raccordées aux réseaux électriques. En raison des fluctuati...

Recommender systems make use of different sources of information for providing users with recommendations of items. Such systems are often based on collabor...

Given a set of duties to be operated over a cyclic one-week horizon and groups of drivers with similar characteristics, the cyclic bus driver rostering probl...

The present work is in a context of derivative-free optimization involving direct search algorithms guided by surrogate models of the original problem. The...

We consider a personalized employee scheduling problem with characteristics present in retail stores consisting of multiple departments. In the setting under...

The purpose of this guide is to present steps and tools to establish a decision-aid process in an organization linked to public health. This decision-aid p...

Ce guide vise à présenter les différentes étapes et outils de mise en place d'un processus d'aide à la décision, au sein d'une organisation liée à la santé...

In the interest of full disclosure, the reader is advised that I am biased positively towards the book considered here as I have collaborated with its first ...

Smart homes have the potential to achieve efficient energy consumption: households can profit from appropriately scheduled consumption. By 2020, 35% of all h...

This is a two-part work. In Part I, low-cost and representative reduced-fidelity models of two versions of the HYDROTEL hydrological model are constructed, u...

Dealing with computationally-intensive calibration processes is still common in distributed hydrological modelling despite the computing power growth. Comput...

Des initiatives mal formulées sur la stratégie de planification des ports fait subir à la zone côtière tropicale des effets néfastes. Pour réduire ces effe...

Operations Research (OR) has a very important role to play in credit scoring for building models that can help the lending organization to make a good decisi...

Le problème de planification de la production des mines à ciel ouvert vise à optimiser la valeur actuelle nette d'un projet minier. Plusieurs méthodes de sol...

Nous proposons un algorithm pour les problèmes d’optimisation non linéaire avec contraintes d’égalité basé sur une fonction de pénalité lisse proposée par ...

Algorithms for finding sparse solutions of underdetermined systems of linear equations have been the subject of intense interest in recent years, sparked b...

Microgrid, a promising component of smart grid, will potentially yield a free electricity market. This paper proposes a novel construction for a community mi...