2026 Jean-Yves Potvin: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	62	2836	2753	107	100	153	23927

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Jean-Yves Potvin is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada, focusing their research in the field of Engineering. Their work primarily spans subfields such as Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Transportation, Building and Construction, and Control and Systems Engineering.

The main research topics covered by Jean-Yves Potvin include:

Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
Transportation and Mobility Innovations
Transportation Planning and Optimization
Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
Optimization and Packing Problems
Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms
Optimization and Mathematical Programming

Jean-Yves Potvin has contributed to a variety of recent papers, addressing optimization and routing problems in transportation and scheduling. Notable publications include:

Tabu search for the time-dependent vehicle routing problem with time windows on a road network, 2020, European Journal of Operational Research
A metaheuristic based on tabu search for solving a technician routing and scheduling problem, 2020, Computers & Operations Research
Managing in real-time a vehicle routing plan with time-dependent travel times on a road network, 2021, Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies
The Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Two-Dimensional Items, 2020, Transportation Science
Tabu search for a parallel-machine scheduling problem with periodic maintenance, job rejection and weighted sum of completion times, 2021, Journal of Scheduling

The frequent publication venues for Jean-Yves Potvin include:

EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics
European Journal of Operational Research
Computers & Operations Research
Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies
Transportation Science

Jean-Yves Potvin collaborates regularly with several coauthors, among them:

Michel Gendreau
Maha Gmira
Andrea Lodi
Ines Mathlouthi
Najmeh Nekooghadirli

Best Publications

A Tabu Search Heuristic for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Soft Time Windows

Éric D. Taillard;Philippe Badeau;Michel Gendreau;François Guertin

1432
Citations
Classical and modern heuristics for the vehicle routing problem

Gilbert Laporte;Michel Gendreau;Jean-Yves Potvin;Frédéric Semet

1170
Citations
Handbook of Metaheuristics

Michel Gendreau;Jean-Yves Potvin

1158
Citations
A guide to vehicle routing heuristics

Jean-François Cordeau;Michel Gendreau;Gilbert Laporte;Jean-Yves Potvin

1003
Citations
Vehicle dispatching with time-dependent travel times

Soumia Ichoua;Michel Gendreau;Jean-Yves Potvin

891
Citations
Handbook of Metaheuristics

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847
Citations
A parallel route building algorithm for the vehicle routing and scheduling problem with time windows

Jean-Yves Potvin;Jean-Marc Rousseau

701
Citations
Parallel Tabu Search for Real-Time Vehicle Routing and Dispatching

Michel Gendreau;Francois Guertin;Jean-Yves Potvin;Eric Taillard

694
Citations
The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows Part II: Genetic Search

Jean-Yves Potvin;Samy Bengio

649
Citations
An exchange heuristic for routeing problems with time windows

Jean-Yves Potvin;Jean-Marc Rousseau

590
Citations
Genetic algorithms for the traveling salesman problem

Jean-Yves Potvin

572
Citations
An Exact ε-constraint Method for Bi-objective Combinatorial Optimization Problems - Application to the Traveling Salesman Problem with Profits

Jean-François Bérubé;Michel Gendreau;Jean-Yves Potvin

465
Citations
Neighborhood Search Heuristics for a Dynamic Vehicle Dispatching Problem with Pick-ups and Deliveries

Michel Gendreau;François Guertin;Jean-Yves Potvin;René Séguin

457
Citations
Metaheuristics in Combinatorial Optimization

Michel Gendreau;Jean-Yves Potvin

455
Citations
Adaptive Memory Programming: A Unified View of Meta-Heuristics

E. D. Taillard;L. Gambardella;M. Gendreau;J. Potvin

431
Citations
Intelligent Freight Transportation Systems : Assessment and the Contribution of Operations Research

Teodor Gabriel Crainic;Michel Gendreau;Jean-Yves Potvin

404
Citations
Metaheuristics for the capacitated VRP

M. Gendreau;G. Laporte;J.-Y. Potvin

382
Citations
An exact algorithm for a vehicle routing problem with time windows and multiple use of vehicles

Nabila Azi;Michel Gendreau;Jean-Yves Potvin

365
Citations
The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows Part I: Tabu Search

Jean-Yves Potvin;Tanguy Kervahut;Bruno-Laurent Garcia;Jean-Marc Rousseau

353
Citations
Diversion Issues in Real-Time Vehicle Dispatching

Soumia Ichoua;Michel Gendreau;Jean-Yves Potvin

340
Citations
Exploiting Knowledge About Future Demands for Real-Time Vehicle Dispatching

Soumia Ichoua;Michel Gendreau;Jean-Yves Potvin

315
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michel Gendreau Polytechnique Montréal

Gilbert Laporte HEC Montréal

Bernard Gendron University of Montreal

Guy Lapalme University of Montreal

Andrea Lodi Cornell University

Jean-François Cordeau HEC Montréal

Martin W. P. Savelsbergh Georgia Institute of Technology

Stephen F. Smith Carnegie Mellon University

Frédéric Semet University of Lille

Kate A. Smith Monash University

External Links

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