BigData Analysis and Data Mining

Biography

Pierre Hansen is professor of Operations Research in the department of decision sciences of HEC Montréal. 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. Pierre Hansen 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 almost 3000 times.

Abstract

Abstract : Two applications of Variable Neighborhood Search in Data Mining