Papers

Unpublished papers

• É. D. Taillard, "FANT: Fast ant system", Technical report IDSIA-46-98, IDSIA, Lugano, 1998.
• É. D. Taillard, L.-M. Gambardella, "Adaptive memories for the Quadratic Assignment Problems", Technical report IDSIA-87-97, IDSIA, Lugano, 1997.
• M. Gendreau, P. Badeau, F. Guertin, J.-Y. Potvin, É. D. Taillard, "A solution procedure for real-time routing and dispatching of commercial vehicles", Publication CRT-96-24, Centre de recherche sur les transports, Université de Montréal, 1996.

Published books and articles

• M. Laurent, É. D. Taillard, O. Ertz, F. Grin, D. Rappo, S. Roh From Point Feature Label Placement to Map Labelling , Proceedings, Metaheuristic International Conference (MIC'09), Hamburg, Germany, July 2009.
• Olivier Ertz, Maxence Laurent, Daniel Rappo, Abson Sae-Tang, Eric Taillard PAL - A cartographic labelling library , Proceedings, FOSS4G2008, Cap Town, South Africa, Sept-Oct. 2008.
• A. Ostertag, K. F. Doerner, R. F. Hartl, É. D. Taillard, P. Waelti, POPMUSIC for a real-world large-scale vehicle routing problem with time windows , Journal of the Operational Research Society 60 (7), 2009, p.934.
• P. Siarry, É. D. Taillard, "Feature cluster INCOM 2006 --- Metaheuristics: Transportation and logistics" European Journal of Operational Research 195, 701-702, 2009.
• A. C. F. Alvim, É. D. Taillard, "POPMUSIC for the Point Feature Label Placement", European Journal of Operational Research 192, 396-413, 2009.

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• É. D. Taillard, Ph. Waelti, J. Zuber, "Few statistical tests for proportions comparisons". European Journal of Operational Research 185 (3), 1336-1350, 2008.
• É. D. Taillard, M. Widmer, "Feature cluster on papers presented at the FRANCORO IV Conference" European Journal of Operational Research 185 (3), 1274-1275, 2008.
• J. Dréo, A. Pétrowski, P. Siarry, É. D. Taillard, "Metaheuristics for Hard Optimization: Methods and Case Studies", 3-540-23022-X, Springer, 2006.
• A. C. F. Alvim, É. D. Taillard, "A POPMUSIC heuristic for the Point Feature Label Placement", Metaheuristic International Conference (MIC'07), Montreal, Canada, June 2007.
• Z. Drezner, P. Hahn, É. D. Taillard, "Recent Advances for the Quadratic Assignment Problem with Special Emphasis on Instances that are Difficult for Meta-Heuristic Methods", Annals of OR 139(1), 65–94, 2005.
• A. C. F. Alvim, É. D. Taillard, "POPMUSIC for the Point Feature Label Placement", Metaheuristic International Conference (MIC'05), Vienna, August 2005.
• É. D. Taillard, "Few guidelines for analyzing methods", Tutorial, Metaheuristic International Conference (MIC'05), Vienna, August 2005.
• É. D. Taillard, Ph. Waelti, M. Widmer, "Actes de FRANCORO 4" (in French), 4e journées francophones de recherche opérationnelle, Fribourg, Switzerland, August, 2004.
• É. D. Taillard, G. Burri, "POPMUSIC pour le placement de légendes sur des plans", in É. D. Taillard, Ph. Waelti, M. Widmer (eds), Actes de FRANCORO 4, Fribourg, Switzerland, August, 2004 95--97.
• É. D. Taillard, Ph. Waelti, J. Zuber "Un nouveau test statistique pour la comparaison de proportions", in É. D. Taillard, Ph. Waelti, M. Widmer (eds), Actes de FRANCORO 4, Fribourg, Switzerland, August, 2004 98--100.
• É. D. Taillard, "A statistical test for comparing success rates", Extended abstract, Metaheuristic international conference MIC'03, Kyoto, Japan, August, 2003.
• J. Dréo, A. Pétrowski, P. Siarry, É. D. Taillard, "Métaheuristiques pour l'optimisation difficile", ISBN 2-212-11368-4, Eyrolles, 2003.
• É. D. Taillard, "Heuristic Methods for Large Centroid Clustering Problems", Journal of Heuristics 9 (1), 2003, 51-73. Old technical report, 1996.
• B. Renaud, É. D. Taillard, S. Berger, M. Perraudin "Simulation d'accidents de dépressurisation", Visions, Revue scientifique de l'EIVD, Yverdon-Lausanne, 2002, 11-16.
• É. D. Taillard, "Principes d'implémentation des métaheuristiques", Chapter 2 of J. Teghem, M. Pirlot (dir.), Optimisation approchée en recherche opérationnelle, Hermès, 2002, 57-79.
• É. D. Taillard, "Ant Systems", Technical report IDSIA-05-99, IDSIA, Lugano, 1999. P. Pardalos, M. G. C. Resende (eds), Handbook of Applied Optimization, Oxford Univ. Press, 2002, 130--137
• É. D. Taillard, S. Voss "POPMUSIC: Partial Optimization Metaheuristic Under Special Intensification Conditions", Technical report, Institute for Computer Sciences, eivd, Yverdon, 1999. in C. Ribeiro, P. Hansen (eds), Essays and surveys in metaheuristics, Kluwer, 2001, 613--629
• É. D. Taillard, L.-M. Gambardella, M. Gendreau, J.-Y. Potvin, "Adaptive Memory Programming: A Unified View of Meta-Heuristics", Technical report IDSIA-19-98, IDSIA, Lugano, 1998. European Journal of Operational Research 135 (1), 2001, 1--16
• É. D. Taillard, La biologie au service de la logistique, Bulletin technique de la Suisse romande des ingénieurs et architectes suisses 11, 2001, 208–213.
• É. D. Taillard, G. Agazzi, L. Gambardella, Des fourmis pour livrer du mazout, Bulletin de l’association suisse des électriciens 21/2000, 28–30. also in Visions, Revue scientifique de l'EIVD, 2000.
• J. Brimberg, P. Hansen, N. Mladenovic, É. D. Taillard, "Improvements and Comparison of Heuristics for solving the Multisource Weber Problem", Technical report IDSIA-33-97, Operations Research 48 (1), 2000, 129--135.
• É. D. Taillard, "An Introduction to Ant Systems", In M. Laguna, J. L. G. Velarde (eds), Computing Tools for Modelling, Optimization and Simulation, Interfaces in Computer Science and Operations Research, 2000, 131-144.
• L.-M. Gambardella, É. D. Taillard, G. Agazzi "MACS-VRPTW: A Multiple Ant Colony System for vehicle routing problems with time windows", in D. Corne, M. Dorigo, F. Glover (eds), New Ideas in Optimization, Mc Graw Hill, 1999, Chapter 5, 63--76.
• M. Gendreau, F. Guertin, J.-Y. Potvin, É. D. Taillard, "Parallel Tabu Search for Real-Time Vehicle Routing and Dispatching", Transportation Science 33 (4), 1999, 381-390.
• M. Gendreau, G. Laporte, C. Musaraganyi, É. D. Taillard, "A tabu search heuristic for the heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem", Computers and Operation Research 26, 1999, 1153-1173.
• É. D. Taillard, "A heuristic column generation method for the heterogeneous VRP", Operations Research -- Recherche opérationnelle 33 (1), 1999, 1-14. (Publication CRT-96-03, Centre de recherche sur les transports, Université de Montréal, 1996. Revision 11.2005)
• L.-M. Gambardella, É. D. Taillard, M. Dorigo, "Ant Colonies for the Quadratic Assignment Problems", Journal of the Operational Research Society 50, 1999, 167-176.
• P. Hansen, N. Mladenovic, É. D. Taillard, "Heuristic solution of the multisource Weber problem as a p-median problem", O.R. Letters 22, 55-62, 1998.
• É. D. Taillard, L.-M. Gambardella, M. Gendreau, J.-Y. Potvin, "Programmation à mémoire adaptative", Technical report IDSIA-79-97, IDSIA, Lugano, 1997. Published in: Calculateurs Parallèles, Réseaux et Systèmes répartis 10, 1998, 117-140
• P. Badeau, M. Gendreau, F. Guertin, J.-Y. Potvin, É. D. Taillard, "A parallel tabu search heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with time windows", Transportation Research-C 5, 1997, 109-122.
• É. D. Taillard, L.-M. Gambardella, "An ant approach for structured quadratic assignment problems", Extended abstract, Second Metaheuristic International Conference, Sophia-Antipolis, July 1997, 217-222.
• É. D. Taillard, P. Badeau, M. Gendreau, F. Guertin, J.Y. Potvin, "A tabu search heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with soft time windows", Transportation science 31, 1997, 170-186.
• A. Hertz, É. D. Taillard, D. de Werra, "Tabu Search", in : E. Aarts and J. K. Lenstra, Local search in combinatorial optimization, 1997, J. Wiley & Sons Ltd., 121-136.
• B. L. Golden, G. Laporte, É. D. Taillard, "An adaptive memory heuristic for a class of vehicle routing problems with minmax objective", Computers & Operations Research 24, 1997, 445-452.
• É. D. Taillard, G. Laporte, M. Gendreau, "Vehicle routeing with multiple use of vehicles", Journal of the Operations Research Society 47, 1996, 1065-1070.
• Y. Rochat, É. D. Taillard, "Probabilistic diversification and intensification in local search for vehicle routing". Journal of Heuristics 1, 1995 147-167.
• É. D. Taillard, "Comparison of iterative searches for the quadratic assignment problem" , Location science 3, 1995, 87-105.
• É. D. Taillard, "Parallel taboo search techniques for the job shop scheduling problem" , ORSA Journal on Computing 6, 1994, 108 ­ 117.
• É. D. Taillard, "Parallel iterative search methods for vehicle routing problems", Networks 23, 1993, 661 ­ 673.
• F. Glover, É. D. Taillard, D. de Werra, "A user's guide to taboo search", Annals of Operations research 41, 1993, 3 ­ 28.
• F. Semet, É. D. Taillard, "Solving real-life vehicle routing problems efficiently using taboo search", Annals of Operations research 41, 1993, 469 ­ 488.
• É. D. Taillard, "Benchmarks for basic scheduling problems", European Journal of Operational Research 64, 1993, 278 ­ 285. Old version ps pdf . Direct link to the problem instances
• É. D. Taillard, "Robust taboo search for the quadratic assignment problem", Parallel Computing 17, 1991, 443 ­ 455.
• É. D. Taillard, "Some efficient heuristic methods for the flow shop sequencing problem", European Journal of Operational Research 47(1), 1990, 65 ­ 74. Old version

Thèse de doctorat

• É. D. Taillard, "Recherches itératives dirigées parallèles", Thèse de doctorat 1153, Département de mathématiques, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1993

Thèse d'habilitation

• É. D. Taillard, "La programmation à mémoire adaptative et les algorithmes pseudo-gloutons: nouvelles perspectives pour les méta-heuristiques", Thèse d'habilitation, Laboratoire PRiSM, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 1998

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