This a summary of the author's PhD thesis supervised by Leo Liberti, Philippe Baptiste and Daniel Krob and defended on 18 June 2009 at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. ...
We consider the unrelated parallel machines scheduling problem where jobs have earliness and tardiness penalties and a common due date. We formulate this problem and some of its v...
The goal of this work is to derive four-voice music pieces from given musical plans, which describe the harmonic flow and the intentions of a desired composition. We developed the...
Abstract. Scheduling problems in the forest industry have received significant attention in the recent years and have contributed many challenging applications for optimization te...
Nizar El Hachemi, Michel Gendreau, Louis-Martin Ro...
We investigate mca-programs, that is, logic programs with clauses built of monotone cardinality atoms of the form kX , where k is a non-negative integer and X is a finite set of ...