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Nicolas Zufferey

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Optimizing the trade-off between performance measures and operational risk in a food supply chain environment

Philippe Wieser, Nicolas Zufferey, Simone Lydia Voldrich

In the context of a growing world population and the need to use limited resources responsibly, this study is motivated by the increasing pressures on the food industry, which include issues of food security, safety, and waste. In the context of a global f ...

SPRINGER2020

Design of a quality control network for an international food company

Philippe Wieser, Nicolas Zufferey, Simone Lydia Voldrich

In this article, the design of a quality control network is considered in an entire supply chain, in the context of an international food and beverage company, denoted as ABC. For each possible control point of the network, two decisions have to be made: ( ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2020

Model and metaheuristics for a scheduling problem integrating procurement, sale and distribution decisions

Rémy Glardon, Nicolas Zufferey

This paper presents an integrated approach for short-term supply chain management (SCM) at a fast moving consumer goods production plant. The problem is to determine the production quantities, to provide a detailed production schedule, to trigger the relev ...

Springer2017

Design Space Exploration Problem Formulation for Dataflow Programs on Heterogeneous Architectures, 2016 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSOC)

Marco Mattavelli, Endri Bezati, Nicolas Zufferey, Malgorzata Maria Michalska

The implementations of signal processing systems on the emerging many-core or multi-core processing platforms require to solve a very difficult problem: how to partition and schedule the processing tasks according to given optimization functions such as da ...

2016

Performance Estimation Based Multicriteria Partitioning Approach for Dynamic Dataflow Programs

Marco Mattavelli, Nicolas Zufferey, Malgorzata Maria Michalska

The problem of partitioning a dataflow program onto a target architecture is a difficult challenge for any application design. In general, since the problem is NP-complete, it consists of looking for high quality solutions in terms of maximizing the achiev ...

Hindawi Limited2016

Three-level inventory deployment for a luxury watch company facing various perturbations

Philippe Wieser, Nicolas Zufferey, Jean Respen

A well-known Swiss watch brand, active in the top-end luxury market, is facing a complex inventory deployment problem where watches of different models (more than 100 different models) must be dispatched first to wholesalers to finally reach the shops wher ...

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd2016

Ant Methaheuristics with Adapted Personalities for Vehicle Routing Problem

Rémy Glardon, Nicolas Zufferey, Jaime Farres

At each generation of an ant algorithm, each ant builds a solution step by step by adding an element to it. Each choice is based on the greedy force (short term profit or heuristic information) and the trail system (central memory which collects informatio ...

2015

Ant Metaheuristic with Adapted Personalities for the Vehicle Routing Problem

Rémy Glardon, Nicolas Zufferey, Jaime Farres

Springer Int Publishing Ag2015

A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization

Michel Bierlaire, Michaël Clément Louis Ghislain Thémans, Nicolas Zufferey

We propose a new heuristic for nonlinear global optimization combining a variable neighborhood search framework with a modified trust-region algorithm as local search. The proposed method presents the capability to prematurely interrupt the local search if ...

2010

Graph colouring approaches for a satellite range scheduling problem

Nicolas Zufferey, Patrick Amstutz, Philippe Giaccari

A goal of this paper is to efficiently adapt the best ingredients of the graph colouring techniques to an NP-hard satellite range scheduling problem, called MuRRSP. We propose two new heuristics for the MuRRSP, where as many jobs as possible have to be sch ...

2008

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