“Meet a GERAD researcher!” seminar

Title: Exploiting degeneracy in minimax combinatorial optimization problems: applications to clustering, location analysis and graph partitioning

Speaker: Claudio Contardo – Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Classical optimization tools as simplex-based enumeration tend to behave poorly in minimax combinatorial optimization problems due to degeneracy. I will discuss the use of two tools to handle these classes of problems: binary search and sampling. I will exemplify their use in two problems: the minimax diameter clustering problem and the p-center problem. Applications to graph partitioning will be briefly discussed.

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Coffee and biscuits will be offered at the beginning of the seminar.
Welcome to everyone!