In this paper, we report the story of the GENCOL team and of the optimization software of the same name. This is first of all the history of a collaboration that has lasted for thirty years between François Soumis and Jacques Desrosiers, HEC Montréal and École Polytechnique de Montréal, the research centers CRT and GERAD, and the spin off companies

Currently, most of the displays in control rooms can be categorized as status, alerts/procedures, or control screens. With the advent and use of CRTs and the associated computing power available to compute and display information, it is now possible to combine these different elements of information and control onto a single display. An experiment was conducted to determine which, if any, of th...

Wiener’s famous attack on RSA with d < N shows that using a small d for an efficient decryption process makes RSA completely insecure. As an alternative, Wiener proposed to use the Chinese Remainder Theorem in the decryption phase, where dp = d mod (p − 1) and dq = d mod (q − 1) are chosen significantly smaller than p and q. The parameters dp, dq are called private CRT-exponents. Since Wiener’s...

Several types of timing attacks have been published, but they are either in theory or hard to be taken into practice. In order to improve the feasibility of attack, this paper proposes an advance timing attack scheme on RSA-CRT with T-test. Similar timing attacks have been presented, such as BBAttack and Shindler’s attack, however none of them applied statistical tool in their methods with such...

The problem of bankruptcy forecasting is one of the most actively studied nowadays, posing the task of building effective classifiers as well as the task of dealing with dataset imbalance. In this paper, we apply different combinations of modern learning algorithms (MDA, LR, CRT, and ANNs) in order to try to identify the most effective approach to bankruptcy prediction for Russian manufacturing...

This study uses communication, critical race theory (CRT), and storytelling to examine environmental racism and environmental justice efforts. In New Mexico’s Petroglyph National Monument, a conflict emerged when officials moved protected rock carvings to build a road through the park. When creating the monument, stakeholders evoked cultural and environmental protectionism. Yet, proroad campaig...

Objectives The aim of RCTs is to obtain unbiased estimates of treatment effects to answer the question of interest. In a cluster randomised trial (CRT), maximum statistical efficiency is obtained if an equal sized sample from each cluster is selected. In practice, the ability to achieve equal cluster size is an exception rather than the norm. Two CRTs run by the Leeds CTRU; TRACS (Training Care...

The focus of the present work concerns the nature of deontological decisions. We test the hypothesis that it is possible to specify deontological moral choices based on an unemotional rule, norm or principle and that such moral choices can be distinguished from emotion-driven ones. Using a novel paradigm for moral choice that we call The Refugees’ Dilemma, we provide evidence for such a rulebas...

Using data from the first two rounds of the European Social Survey, we examine the link between income, reference income and life satisfaction across Western Europe. We find that whilst there is a strong positive relationship between income and life satisfaction, reference or comparison income exerts a strong negative influence. Interestingly, our results confirm the importance of personal valu...

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is a recommended treatment in patients with electrical dyssynchrony such as left bundle branch block (LBBB). The determination of the optimal leads position, and the quantification of the changes in electrical activation are two current major challenges. In this paper, we investigate these aspects through electroanatomical data from a controlled experimen...