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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Mathematics in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mathematics in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Mathematics in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2012 - INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize
  • 2012 - Dantzig Prize, by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS)
  • 1994 - EURO Gold Medal

Overview

Laurence A. Wolsey is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium and is active in fields intersecting computer science and engineering. Their work spans a range of subfields including industrial and manufacturing engineering, computational theory and mathematics, artificial intelligence, control and systems engineering, and organizational behavior and human resource management.

Their research interests focus primarily on optimization problems and algorithms. Main topics covered in their work include vehicle routing optimization methods, cryptography and data security, complexity and algorithms in graphs, maritime ports and logistics, optimization and packing problems, optimization and mathematical programming, as well as facility location and emergency management.

Among recent publications are:

  • "Improved models for a single vehicle continuous-time inventory routing problem with pickups and deliveries," 2021, European Journal of Operational Research
  • "On the Balanced Minimum Evolution polytope," 2020, Discrete Optimization
  • "Benders-type branch-and-cut algorithms for capacitated facility location with single-sourcing," 2023, European Journal of Operational Research
  • "Optimizing over path-length matrices of unrooted binary trees," 2025, Mathematical Programming
  • "Convex hull results for generalizations of the constant capacity single node flow set," 2020, Mathematical Programming

Laurence A. Wolsey has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Daniele Catanzaro, Raffaele Pesenti, Karen Aardal, Agostinho Agra, and Marielle Christiansen.

Common publication venues for Wolsey's work include the European Journal of Operational Research and Mathematical Programming. Other venues include Discrete Optimization, the SIAM Journal on Optimization, and Operations Research Letters.

Throughout their career, Laurence A. Wolsey has received several awards, such as the INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize and the Dantzig Prize by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS), both awarded in 2012, as well as the EURO Gold Medal in 1994.

Best Publications

  • Integer and Combinatorial Optimization

    George L. Nemhauser;Laurence A. Wolsey

  • An analysis of approximations for maximizing submodular set functions--I

    G. L. Nemhauser;L. A. Wolsey;M. L. Fisher

  • An analysis of approximations for maximizing submodular set functions II

    M.L. Fisher;G.L. Nemhauser;Laurence Wolsey

  • Integer programming

    G. L. Nemhauser;L. A. Wolsey

  • Integer and Combinatorial Optimization: Nemhauser/Integer and Combinatorial Optimization

    George Nemhauser;Laurence Wolsey

  • Production Planning by Mixed Integer Programming

    Yves Pochet;Laurence A. Wolsey

  • An analysis of approximations for maximizing submodular set functions - 1

    M.L. Fisher;G.L. Nemhauser;L.A. Wolsey

  • The Uncapicitated Facility Location Problem

    G. Cornuejols;G. Nemhauser;L. Wolsey

  • Best Algorithms for Approximating the Maximum of a Submodular Set Function

    G. L. Nemhauser;L. A. Wolsey

  • An Analysis of the Greedy Algorithm for the Submodular Set Covering Problem

    Laurence A. Wolsey

  • Strong formulations for multi-item capacitated lot sizing

    Imre Barany;Tony J. Van Roy;Laurence A. Wolsey

  • Faces for linear inequalities in 0-1 variables

    Laurence A. Wolsey

  • Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems

    Willem-Jan van Hoeve;John N. Hooker

  • A recursive procedure to generate all cuts for 0-1 mixed integer programs

    George L. Nemhauser;Â Laurence A. Wolsey

  • Cutting planes in integer and mixed integer programming

    Hugues Marchand;Alexander Martin;Robert Weismantel;Laurence Wolsey

  • Valid Linear Inequalities for Fixed Charge Problems

    M. W. Padberg;T. J. Van Roy;L. A. Wolsey

  • 50 Years of Integer Programming 1958-2008

    Michael Jünger;Thomas M. Liebling;Denis Naddef;George L. Nemhauser

  • A time indexed formulation of non-preemptive single machine scheduling problems

    Jorge P. Sousa;Laurence A. Wolsey

  • Formulating the single machine sequencing problem with release dates as a mixed integer program

    M. E. Dyer;L. A. Wolsey

  • An exact algorithm for IP column generation

    François Vanderbeck;Laurence A. Wolsey

  • Solving mixed integer programming problems using automatic reformulation

    Tony J. Van Roy;Laurence A. Wolsey

Frequent Co-Authors

George L. Nemhauser
George L. Nemhauser Georgia Institute of Technology
Santanu S. Dey
Santanu S. Dey Georgia Institute of Technology
Marshall L. Fisher
Marshall L. Fisher University of Pennsylvania
Gérard Cornuéjols
Gérard Cornuéjols Carnegie Mellon University
Hande Yaman
Hande Yaman KU Leuven
Maurice Queyranne
Maurice Queyranne University of British Columbia
El-Houssaine Aghezzaf
El-Houssaine Aghezzaf Ghent University
Imre Bárány
Imre Bárány Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
Roland Keunings
Roland Keunings Université Catholique de Louvain

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