373 citations
Counting papers with at most 25 authors, so collaboration author lists do not stand in for the people here.
- Western UniversityCA8 papers
- University of TorontoCA3 papers
- University of WaterlooCA3 papers
- IBM Research - IrelandIE2 papers
- Wilfrid Laurier UniversityCA2 papers
- Columbia UniversityUS1 paper
- IBM (Canada)CA1 paper
- IBM (Ireland)IE1 paper
- Kelowna General HospitalCA1 paper
- Lehigh UniversityUS1 paper
- London School of Business and FinanceGB1 paper
- Technische Universität BerlinDE1 paper
11 papers
Text Mining Undergraduate Engineering Programs' Applications: the Role of Gender, Nationality, and Socio-economic Status
Bo Lin, Bissan Ghaddar, Ada Hurst
Women, visible minorities, and other socially disadvantaged groups continue to be underrepresented in STEM education. Understanding students' motivations for pursuing a STEM major,…
Measuring Financial Advice: aligning client elicited and revealed risk
John R. J. Thompson, Longlong Feng, R. Mark Reesor +2
Financial advisors use questionnaires and discussions with clients to determine a suitable portfolio of assets that will allow clients to reach their investment objectives. Financi…
Electric Vehicle Routing and Charging/Discharging under Time-Variant Electricity Prices
Bo Lin, Bissan Ghaddar, Jatin Nathwani
The integration of electric vehicles (EVs) with the energy grid has become an important area of research due to the increasing EV penetration in today's transportation systems. Und…
The De-democratization of AI: Deep Learning and the Compute Divide in Artificial Intelligence Research
Nur Ahmed, Muntasir Wahed
Increasingly, modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) research has become more computationally intensive. However, a growing concern is that due to unequal access to computing power, o…
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
Bo Lin, Bissan Ghaddar, Jatin Nathwani
The past decade has seen a rapid penetration of electric vehicles (EV) in the market, more and more logistics and transportation companies start to deploy EVs for service provision…
Know Your Clients' behaviours: a cluster analysis of financial transactions
John R. J. Thompson, Longlong Feng, R. Mark Reesor +1
In Canada, financial advisors and dealers are required by provincial securities commissions and self-regulatory organizations--charged with direct regulation over investment dealer…
Optimization Problems for Machine Learning: A Survey
Claudio Gambella, Bissan Ghaddar, Joe Naoum-Sawaya
This paper surveys the machine learning literature and presents in an optimization framework several commonly used machine learning approaches. Particularly, mathematical optimizat…
Dynamic Pricing and Learning with Competition: Insights from the Dynamic Pricing Challenge at the 2017 INFORMS RM & Pricing Conference
Ruben van de Geer, Arnoud V. den Boer, Christopher Bayliss +10
This paper presents the results of the Dynamic Pricing Challenge, held on the occasion of the 17th INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Conference on June 29-30, 2017 in…
Pedestrian-Aware Engine Management Strategies for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Yingqi Gu, Mingming Liu, Joe Naoum-Sawaya +3
Electric Vehicles (EVs) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) are increasingly being seen as a means of mitigating the pressing concerns of traffic-related pollution. While…
Alternative SDP and SOCP Approximations for Polynomial Optimization
Xiaolong Kuang, Bissan Ghaddar, Joe Naoum-Sawaya +1
In theory, hierarchies of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations based on sum of squares (SOS) polynomials have been shown to provide arbitrarily close approximations for a gen…
Using entropy measures for comparison of software traces
A. V. Miranskyy, M. Davison, M. Reesor +1
The analysis of execution paths (also known as software traces) collected from a given software product can help in a number of areas including software testing, software maintenan…