GERAD Research Center Courses

A General Tractable Differential Game Framework - Climate Policy Applications Between Global North and South

Explore a differential game framework analyzing climate policy negotiations between global north and south, examining Nash and Stackelberg equilibria outcomes and their implications for emissions control.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Green Synergy: A Three-Party Fashion Retail System Balancing Profit Maximization and Impact Minimization

Explore a three-party fashion retail system balancing profit and environmental impact. Gain insights into consumer preferences, willingness-to-pay, and the effects of educational interventions on sustainable fashion choices.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Designing Size Inclusive Fashion Assortments

Explore innovative strategies for balancing revenue and size inclusivity in fashion retail assortments. Gain insights into advanced analytics, choice modeling, and fairness measures to optimize product offerings.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

On Difference Games in Infinite-Horizon

Explore infinite-horizon difference games, Nash equilibrium concepts, and Pontryagin maximum principles. Examine bounded processes and asymptotical constraints using optimization tools in Banach spaces.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Signaling Effort: Information Structures in a Principal-Agent Model

Explore principal-agent relationships, focusing on contractible information messages and agent-designed effort signals. Analyze equilibrium conditions and optimal signal characteristics in dynamic game theory.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Pricing, Assortment, and Inventory Decisions under Nested Logit Demand and Equal Profit Margins

Explorez les décisions interdépendantes d'assortiment, d'inventaire et de prix pour des produits substituables dans un contexte de mode, en utilisant un modèle de choix du consommateur logit imbriqué.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Integrated Lot Sizing - Three Possibilities out of Thousands

Explore integrated lot sizing strategies, combining production decisions with maintenance, carbon emissions, and distribution for optimized manufacturing operations.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Game Theoretic Approaches for Smart Communities

Explorez les approches de théorie des jeux pour la gestion intelligente de l'énergie et l'approvisionnement en EPI, avec des applications concrètes pour les communautés et les systèmes de santé.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Economically Exhaustible Resources in an Oligopoly-Fringe Model with Renewables

Explore game theory in resource economics: oligopoly-fringe model with exhaustible and renewable resources, analyzing market dynamics and welfare implications.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Fixed-Parameter Tractability of Scheduling Dependent Tasks on m Machines Subject to Release Times and Deadlines

Explore fixed-parameter tractability in scheduling dependent tasks on multiple machines with release times and deadlines. Gain insights into parameterized complexity and dynamic programming approaches.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Stochastic Tabu Search and Improvements - Application for Physician Scheduling

Explore stochastic tabu search for physician scheduling, including hyperparameter tuning and learning algorithms to enhance efficiency in radiotherapy centers.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Network Games with Large Populations: Non-uniqueness and Learning Dynamics

Explore network interactions in large-scale socio-economic systems, focusing on random graph models, multiple equilibria, and learning dynamics in time-varying settings.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Design of Survivable Networks with Bounded-Length Paths

Explore network design optimization for survivable systems with bounded-length paths. Learn integer programming formulations, valid inequalities, and cutting-plane algorithms for telecommunication network applications.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Representation-driven Option Discovery in Reinforcement Learning

Explore representation-driven option discovery in reinforcement learning, enhancing temporal abstraction and continual learning for intelligent agents.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Recent Advances in Functional Optimization

Explore cutting-edge functional optimization techniques for reinforcement and supervised learning, with theoretical insights and practical algorithms.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video