The Unit Commitment Problem (UCP) is the task of finding an optimal turn on and turn off schedule for a group of power generation units over a given time horizon to minimize ope...
— Virtual Private Networks (VPN) provide a secure and reliable communication between customer sites over a shared network. Two models were proposed for the service provisioning i...
Deterministic optimization approaches have been well developed and widely used in the process industry to accomplish off-line and on-line process optimization. The challenging tas...
Shippers are daily users of the French gas grid. Differences between planned and effective gas demand unbalance the grid. To restore the balance, GRTgaz computes every day amoun...
Timetabling problems are constraint optimization problems proven to be NP complete. Furthermore, evaluation of violations is costly, and there is no common data format for represen...