The expansion of the Panama Canal will be completed by 2015. The route via the Panama Canal will shorten voyages from North America to Japan by more than 7,5...

In this article, we characterize incentive equilibrium strategies and their credibility conditions for the classes of linear-state and linear-quadratic dynam...

In this paper we present a new rolling horizon approach for solving stochastic mixed complementarity problems (MCPs). Such a scheme allows for decision-depen...

This paper describes three recent tools for dealing with primal degeneracy in linear programming. The first one is the Improved Primal Simplex (IPS) algor...

The airline crew scheduling problem involves assigning a group of crew members to scheduled flights over a planning horizon (usually a month) while respectin...

Effective route planning for battery electric commercial vehicle (ECV) fleets has to take into account their limited autonomy and the possibility of visiting...

In this paper, we consider a class of non-cooperative N-player finite-horizon linear-quadratic dynamic games with linear constraints. We introduce a constr...

In this article, we develop the two-dimensional positive edge criterion for the dual simplex. This work extends a similar pricing rule implemented by Towhidi...

The problem of optimal real-time transmission of a Markov source under constraints on the expected number of transmissions is considered, both for the discou...

Cake-cutting is a metaphor for problems where a principal agent has to fairly allocate resources. Such problems cover various areas of operations research ...

We investigate the impact of store capacity and extent of inter-product substitution in a retailer's assortment on the optimal timing and depth of price pro...

Since its introduction in 1969, the set partitioning problem has received much attention, and the structure of its feasible domain has been studied in detail...

The packet delay variation, commonly called delay jitter, is an important quality of service parameter in IP networks especially for real-time applications. ...

Jitter buffering is a key component in multimedia and real-time services. A jitter buffer is used at the receiver side to control packet rate and to compensa...

An analytical approach and a control strategy are proposed in Part I of this two-part paper for leveraging the aggregate demand of a population of Thermostat...

There are few systematic methodologies capable of predicting and leveraging the reserve capacity potential of large populations of Thermostatically-Controlle...

Decentralized stochastic control refers to the multi-stage optimization of a dynamical system by multiple controllers that have access to different informati...

In decentralized control systems with linear dynamics, quadratic cost, and Gaussian disturbance (also called decentralized LQG systems) linear control strate...

We consider an \(n\)-player game in coalitional form. We use the so-called \(\delta\) characteristic function to determine the strength of all possible c...

Oil industry plays currently a major role in the Canadian economy. In the future, further developments of the oil sector will be affected by the ability to t...