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Overview

Gilles Savard is affiliated with Polytechnique Montréal in Canada and has contributed to the field of Engineering through a body of research focused primarily on areas including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Control and Systems Engineering.

Their research encompasses a range of subfields, with published work in Building and Construction as well as Management Information Systems. Savard's work covers several main topics, notably Urban and Freight Transport Logistics, Smart Grid Energy Management, and Supply Chain and Inventory Management. Other research interests include Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency, Transportation Planning and Optimization, Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods, and Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure.

The following recent papers represent their research outputs, reflecting contributions to several peer-reviewed venues:

  • "Revenue optimization in energy networks involving self-scheduled demand and a smart grid" (2021, Computers & Operations Research)
  • "Deep reinforcement learning in seat inventory control problem: an action generation approach" (2021, Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management)
  • "Application of machine learning techniques in railway demand forecasting" (2021, International Journal of Revenue Management)
  • "A Two-step Heuristic for the Periodic Demand Estimation Problem" (2021, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • "Product-closing approximation for ranking-based choice network revenue management" (2020, European Journal of Operational Research)

Savard's frequent co-authors include Miguel F. Anjos, Neda Etebari Alamdari, Greta Laage, Emma Frejinger, and Sezin Afşar. This collaborative network has contributed to various interdisciplinary research efforts.

The scientist regularly publishes in venues such as Computers & Operations Research and the International Journal of Revenue Management, with additional contributions to arXiv (Cornell University), the Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, and the European Journal of Operational Research. These journals reflect the applied and theoretical dimensions of their research scope.

Best Publications

  • An overview of bilevel optimization

    Benoît Colson;Patrice Marcotte;Gilles Savard

  • New branch-and-bound rules for linear bilevel programming

    Pierre Hansen;Brigitte Jaumard;Gilles Savard

  • Bilevel programming: A survey

    Benoít Colson;Patrice Marcotte;Gilles Savard

  • A bilevel model of taxation and its application to optimal highway pricing

    Martine Labbé;Patrice Marcotte;Gilles Savard

  • Descent approaches for quadratic bilevel programming

    L. Vicente;G. Savard;J. Júdice

  • A System Architecture for Autonomous Demand Side Load Management in Smart Buildings

    G. T. Costanzo;Guchuan Zhu;M. F. Anjos;G. Savard

  • A Bilevel Model for Toll Optimization on a Multicommodity Transportation Network

    Luce Brotcorne;Martine Labbé;Patrice Marcotte;Gilles Savard

  • The steepest descent direction for the nonlinear bilevel programming problem

    Gilles Savard;Jacques Gauvin

  • A branch and cut algorithm for nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic programming

    Charles Audet;Pierre Hansen;Brigitte Jaumard;Gilles Savard

  • A Trust-Region Method for Nonlinear Bilevel Programming: Algorithm and Computational Experience

    Benoît Colson;Patrice Marcotte;Gilles Savard

  • Links between linear bilevel and mixed 0-1 programming problems

    C. Audet;P. Hansen;B. Jaumard;G. Savard

  • Discrete linear bilevel programming problem

    L. Vicente;G. Savard;J. Júdice

  • A bilevel modelling approach to pricing and fare optimisation in the airline industry

    Jean-Philippe Côté;Patrice Marcotte;Gilles Savard

  • Multiobjective Optimization Through a Series of Single-Objective Formulations

    Charles Audet;Gilles Savard;Walid Zghal

  • A Bilevel Model and Solution Algorithm for a Freight Tariff-Setting Problem

    Luce Brotcorne;Martine Labbé;Patrice Marcotte;Gilles Savard

  • The time-dependent traveling salesman problem and single machine scheduling problems with sequence dependent setup times

    Louis-Philippe Bigras;Michel Gamache;Gilles Savard

  • Toll Policies for Mitigating Hazardous Materials Transport Risk

    Patrice Marcotte;Anne Mercier;Gilles Savard;Vedat Verter

  • A hybrid Tabu-ascent algorithm for the linear Bilevel Programming Problem

    Michel Gendreau;Patrice Marcotte;Gilles Savard

  • An approximation algorithm for Stackelberg network pricing

    Sébastien Roch;Gilles Savard;Patrice Marcotte

  • A mesh adaptive direct search algorithm for multiobjective optimization

    Charles Audet;Charles Audet;Gilles Savard;Gilles Savard;Walid Zghal

  • The Discrete Linear Bilevel Programming Problem

    Gilles Savard;Joaquim J. Júdice;Luís Nunes Vicente

  • Links Between the Linear Bilevel and Mixed 0-1 Programming Problems

    Charles Audet;Pierre Hansen;Brigitte Jaumard;Gilles Savard

  • A Bilevel Model for Toll Optimization on a Multicommodity Transportation Network

    Gilles Savard;Luce Brotcorne;Patrice Marcotte;Martine Labbé

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrice Marcotte
Patrice Marcotte University of Montreal
Charles Audet
Charles Audet Polytechnique Montréal
Brigitte Jaumard
Brigitte Jaumard Concordia University
Martine Labbé
Martine Labbé Université Libre de Bruxelles
Pierre Hansen
Pierre Hansen HEC Montréal
André Langevin
André Langevin Polytechnique Montréal
Luís Nunes Vicente
Luís Nunes Vicente Lehigh University
Frédéric Semet
Frédéric Semet University of Lille
Vedat Verter
Vedat Verter Queen's University

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