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Pierre Hansen


Pierre Hansen

GERAD and HEC Montreal, Canada

Biography

Pierre Hansen is a professor of Operations Research in the department of decision sciences of HEC Montreal. His research is focussed on combinatorial optimization, metaheuristics, and graph theory. With Nenad Mladenovic, he has developed the Variable Neighborhood Search metaheuristic, a general framework for building heuristics for a variety of combinatorial optimization and graph theory problems. He has received the EURO Gold Medal in 1986 as well as other prizes. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and the author or co-author of close to 400 scientific papers. His first paper on VNS was cited more than 3000 times.

Abstract

Abstract : Algorithms for a minimum sum of squares clustering