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Mathematics

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56
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10253
World Ranking
742
National Ranking
24

Engineering and Technology

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62
Citations
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World Ranking
1955
National Ranking
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Overview

Guy Desaulniers is affiliated with Polytechnique Montréal in Canada and specializes in engineering with a focus on industrial and manufacturing engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields including automotive engineering, transportation, management science and operations research, and artificial intelligence.

Their research covers several main topics, emphasizing vehicle routing optimization methods, transportation and mobility innovations, and transportation planning and optimization. Other notable areas include scheduling and timetabling solutions, scheduling and optimization algorithms, optimization and packing problems, and urban and freight transport logistics.

Desaulniers has been published frequently in a number of academic venues, with notable contributions in:

  • Transportation Science
  • Computers & Operations Research
  • INFORMS Journal on Computing
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of the Operational Research Society

Recent papers authored with other researchers include:

  • "Machine-learning-based column selection for column generation," 2021, Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)
  • "Branch-and-cut-and-price for the Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows, Piecewise-Linear Recharging and Capacitated Recharging Stations," 2022, Computers & Operations Research
  • "Machine-Learning-Based Arc Selection for Constrained Shortest Path Problems in Column Generation," 2022, INFORMS Journal on Optimization
  • "Accelerating Benders decomposition for short-term hydropower maintenance scheduling," 2020, European Journal of Operational Research
  • "A Branch-Price-and-Cut Algorithm for the Two-Echelon Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows," 2021, Transportation Science

Desaulniers has collaborated extensively with frequent co-authors including Andrea Lodi, Mouad Morabit, Louis-Martin Rousseau, Claudio Contardo, and Issmaïl El Hallaoui.

Best Publications

  • Shortest Path Problems with Resource Constraints

    Stefan Irnich;Guy Desaulniers

  • The VRP with Time Windows

    Jean-François Cordeau;Guy Desaulniers;Jacques Desrosiers;Marius M. Solomon

  • Exact Algorithms for Electric Vehicle-Routing Problems with Time Windows

    Guy Desaulniers;Fausto Errico;Stefan Irnich;Michael Schneider

  • VRP with pickup and delivery

    G. Desaulniers;J. Desrosiers;A. Erdmann;M. M. Solomon

  • Tabu Search, Partial Elementarity, and Generalized k-Path Inequalities for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows

    Guy Desaulniers;François Lessard;Ahmed Hadjar

  • A Unified Framework for Deterministic Time Constrained Vehicle Routing and Crew Scheduling Problems

    Guy Desaulniers;Jacques Desrosiers;Irina loachim;Marius M. Solomon

  • Daily Aircraft Routing and Scheduling

    Guy Desaulniers;Jacques Desrosiers;Yvan Dumas;Marius M. Solomon

  • VRP with Time Windows

    J.-F. Cordeau;G. Desaulniers;J. Desrosiers;M. M. Solomon

  • Crew pairing at Air France

    G. Desaulniers;J. Desrosiers;Y. Dumas;S. Marc

  • Simultaneous Vehicle and Crew Scheduling in Urban Mass Transit Systems

    Knut Haase;Guy Desaulniers;Jacques Desrosiers

  • Branch-and-Price-and-Cut for the Split-Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows

    Guy Desaulniers

  • Exact Branch-Price-and-Cut Algorithms for Vehicle Routing

    Luciano Costa;Luciano Costa;Claudio Contardo;Claudio Contardo;Guy Desaulniers

  • Chapter 2 Public Transit.

    Guy Desaulniers;Mark D. Hickman

  • Multi-depot vehicle scheduling problems with time windows and waiting costs

    Guy Desaulniers;June Lavigne;François Soumis

  • A Branch-and-Price Method for a Liquefied Natural Gas Inventory Routing Problem

    Roar Grønhaug;Marielle Christiansen;Guy Desaulniers;Jacques Desrosiers

  • Chapter 5: The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows

    Guy Desaulniers;Oli B.G. Madsen;Stefan Ropke

  • A Branch-Price-and-Cut Algorithm for the Inventory-Routing Problem

    Guy Desaulniers;Jørgen G. Rakke;Leandro C. Coelho

  • The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows.

    Guy Desaulniers;Oli B. G. Madsen;Stefan Ropke

  • Dynamic Aggregation of Set-Partitioning Constraints in Column Generation

    Issmail Elhallaoui;Daniel Villeneuve;François Soumis;Guy Desaulniers

  • New Enhancements for the Exact Solution of the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows

    Diego Pecin;Claudio Contardo;Guy Desaulniers;Eduardo Uchoa

  • The VRP with Pickup and Delivery

    Guy Desaulniers;Jacques Desrosiers;A Erdmann;Marius M. Solomon

Frequent Co-Authors

François Soumis
François Soumis Polytechnique Montréal
Jacques Desrosiers
Jacques Desrosiers HEC Montréal
Marius M. Solomon
Marius M. Solomon Northeastern University
Louis-Martin Rousseau
Louis-Martin Rousseau Polytechnique Montréal
Stefan Irnich
Stefan Irnich Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Gilbert Laporte
Gilbert Laporte HEC Montréal
Marielle Christiansen
Marielle Christiansen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Michel Gendreau
Michel Gendreau Polytechnique Montréal
David Pisinger
David Pisinger Technical University of Denmark

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