Vehicle scrappage subsidy programs have been widely applied by governments to replace old cars by newer, more fuel-efficient ones. While these programs hav...

Employee scheduling is an important activity in the service industry as it has a significant impact on costs, sales, and profitability. While a large amount ...

The mesh adaptive direct search (MADS) algorithm is designed for blackbox optimization problems for which the functions defining the objective and the constr...

The vertex \(p\)-center problem consists in selecting \(p\) centers among a finite set of candidates and assigning a set of clients to them, with the aim...

Wrong-way risk arises when the value of a financial transaction is adversely correlated with the creditworthiness of the counterparty. This paper investiga...

The third installment of the Basel Accords advocates a capital charge against Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA) variability. We propose an efficient numeri...

We analyze a transboundary pollution differential game where, in addition to the standard temporal dimension, a spatial dimension is introduced to capture th...

We propose an infeasible interior-point algorithm for constrained linear least-squares problems based on the primal-dual regularization of convex program...

We investigate surrogate-assisted strategies for global derivative-free optimization using the mesh adaptive direct search MADS blackbox optimization algorit...

Energy and the environment are closely interconnected. In particular, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are major contributors to climate change. To an...

The classical p-median problem assumes that service to customers is always provided by the closest facility, while in practice, customers often interact for...

The Canadian province of Quebec has set for 2030 a greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction target of 37.5% below 1990 levels. Meeting such a reduction targ...

We propose a factorization-free method for equality-constrained optimization based on a problem in which all constraints are systematically regularized. ...

For optimization problems involving many nonlinear inequality constraints, we extend the bound-constrained (BCL) and linearly-constrained (LCL) augmented-La...

In this paper we consider a version of the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) where travel times are assumed to be uncertain and statistically corre...

Within state-of-the-art optimization solvers such as IBM--CPLEX the ability to solve both convex and nonconvex Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming (MIQP) pro...

Brand imitation is a common practice that can take different forms, i.e., legal copying, as in the case of clones and knockoffs, or illegal, in the case of...

In the last 20 years, there has been increasing interest in using advanced simulation and optimization techniques to develop and manage mineral resources a...

A mining complex is a mineral value chain that consists of multiple activities, starting from material extraction to a set of sellable products delivered t...

Signatories of the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are exploring avenues to drastically abate their ...