Maurice Queyranne
Regular biography
Maurice Queyranne is a Retired Faculty member at The University of British Columbia, affiliated with the BUS department. His research interests include Combinatorial Optimization, Production Planning and Scheduling, and Inventory Management. He is associated with the Operations and Logistics Division at UBC Sauder School of Business. His work includes publications on topics such as optimum turn-restricted paths, nested compatibility, and convex polygons, as well as applications in mining and resource-constrained project scheduling. His research has been featured in journals such as the Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Computational Optimization and Applications, and Mathematics of Operations Research.
Scholar-generated biography
Maurice Queyranne is an Emeritus Professor of Operations and Logistics at the UBC Sauder School of Business, specializing in Operations Research. His research focuses on the theoretical and algorithmic aspects of optimization problems, particularly in scheduling, network flows, and combinatorial optimization. He has contributed to the development of exact algorithms for complex scheduling problems and explored polyhedral approaches to machine scheduling. His work also includes the study of minimum cuts in networks and their applications to various optimization problems. Queyranne's research has significantly advanced the understanding of dynamic programming methods and approximation schemes for scheduling and resource allocation.