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Some personnal facts
Xavier Gandibleux is a full professor (PR-CE) in computer
science at the University of Nantes (France) since September
2004. Before joining the University of Nantes, he was a lecturer
from 1993 to 1995 and a senior lecturer (maître de conférences)
from 1995 to 2004, in computer science at the University of
Valenciennes (France).
Born in April 1966 in Belgium, Xavier Gandibleux graduated from
the University of Mons (Belgium) in 1989, with a degree in
mathematics-informatics. He received his Master's degree (DEA)
in industrial and human automation from the University of
Valenciennes in 1990 and his Ph.D. in industrial informatics in
Jan. 1995 from the same institution. His dissertation was
co-supervised by Prof. Gaétan Libert from the Polytechnic
Faculty of Mons, Belgium, and Prof. Patrick Millot from the
University of Valenciennes. In Dec. 2003, Xavier Gandibleux was
habilited to supervise doctoral research in informatics (HDR:
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches).
Xavier Gandibleux teaches courses in
Operational Research and Computer Science in the Department
of Computer Science at the Faculty of Sciences and Technologies,
where he has been the head of the MSc in Computer Science,
International track "Optimisation in Operations Research" during
5 years, and head of the MSc in Computer Science of the
University of Nantes (7 specialised tracks) during 4 years. He
is now head of the CMI OPT/IM (Cursus Master en Ingénierie)
specialised on Informatics and Mathematics of Optimization,
since 3 years. He has lectured at the University of Mons from
1995 to 2005 as associate professor.
A former member of several research structures located at
Valenciennes (LAMIH), and Nantes (LINA; IRCCyN), Xavier
Gandibleux is now member of the LS2N research laboratory (a CNRS
affiliated laboratory UMR 6004) conducting research related to
«Operations Research: multi-objective optimization».
As a visiting researcher, he made stays in Poznan University of
Technology (Poland), Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium),
Technical University of Kaiserslautern (Germany), Technical
University of Berlin (Germany),
University of Malaga (Spain), and University of Vienna
(Austria). During his sabbatical, he spent one month at Kyoto
University (Japan) as the guest of Prof. Naoki Katoh, with
funding from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Sciences
(Francophone Alumni JSPS fellows).
Research activities
Active in discrete multi-criteria decision-making since the
beginning of the nineties, Xavier Gandibleux's main areas of
research are multi-objective and combinatorial optimization,
with applications in complex environments (production systems,
railway transportation, computer networks). He is a leading
researcher in multi-objective optimization and metaheuristics.
With A. Fréville, A. Jaszkiewicz and R. Slowinski, he was the
guest editor of the first special issue of one International
journal (Journal of Heuristics) devoted to "Multi-Objective
MetaHeuristics" (published in 2000).
Xavier Gandibleux -together with the members of his research
group and a number of international collaborators from Belgium,
Poland, Spain, Germany, USA, Japan, New-Zealand- has worked to
develop high performance algorithms for several multiple
objective NP-hard problems, such as the assigment problem, the
0-1 knapsack problem, the set packing problem as well as other
optimization problems. Together, they have pioneered new
techniques for solving multi-objective large-scale optimization
problems, including MOTS, a multi-objective tabu search
(1996,1997), hybrid methods combining exact and approximative
techniques (1997, 2000), valid inequalities for the 0-1
bi-objective knapsack problem (1997, 2000), the path-relinking
in multi-objective optimization (2003, 2004), bound sets (2000,
2007), and exact algorithms for multi-objective versions of e.g.
shortest path problems with a MaxMin cost function (2006),
linear assignment problems (2006, 2010), knapsack
problems (2008, 2015), mixed integer linear programming problems
(2013), facility location problems (2017),
and open-source solvers (2017).
With Matthias Ehrgott (Lancaster University, UK), Xavier
Gandibleux made a broad synthesis of the Multi-Objective
Combinatorial Optimization (MOCO) and Multi-Objective
MetaHeuristics (MOMH) fields. Started in 1997, this work has
resulted in the publication of a book and many surveys. They
have been invited to speak at the plenary sessions of many
well-established international conferences (MCDM 2000, Ankara,
Turkey; MOPGP 2002, Nara, Japan; EMO 2005, Guanajuato, Mexico;
MIC 2005, Vienna, Austria) in order to present a tutorial on
these topics.
Professor Gandibleux has supervised and worked on several real
world applications, including multi-objective routing in IP
networks, railway infrastructure capacity, and decision-aid for
the supervision of large industrial systems. He has initiated
three R&D projects with such partners as Alcatel, SNCF and
FranceTelecom, and has been partner of two recent research
projects: the ANR GUEPARD, and the ANR-DFG vOpt. He has been the
editor of 4 books, and has co-authored more than 59
papers for peer-reviewed journals and proceedings in the
field of operations research: Multi-objective Optimization,
Combinatorial Optimization, Metaheuristics, Evolutionary
Algorithms and Decision-Aid Systems. He is the supervisor of
Ph.D candidates and Master thesis.
Implication in the community
Xavier Gandibleux has served as the 3rd Vice President of the
French Operational Research and Decision-Aid Society (ROADEF)
and as the secretary of the Association of European Operational
Research Societies (EURO).
In 1999, he co-founded and served as the coordinator of the
French Working Group dedicated to Multiple-Objective Programming
(PM2O). He has been
co-responsible of the theme «Decision-Aid Systems» within the
regional research project «MILES». He has been recently member
of the scientific board of the regional research project
"LigeRO".
He has served as area editor for 4OR, «A Quarterly Journal of
Operations Research», for INFOR, «Information Systems and
Operational Research (a publication of the Canadian Operational
Research Society)», and for JMMA, «Journal of Mathematical
Modelling and Algorithms in Operations Research». He has been
recently a member of the Executive Committee of the
International Multicriteria Decision-Making Society (MCDM)
and is active in international working group (EURO
MCDA; EURO
EU/ME;
RAMOO).
He has co-organized and chaired two major events : MOPGP06, the
seventh international conference on multi-objective programming
and goal programming (June 2006, Loire Valley, Tours, France)
and EMO'09, the Fifth International Conference devoted to
Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (April 2009, Nantes,
France). Also he has co-organized several International
workshops: International workshop
devoted to «Multi-Objective MetaHeuristics» (MOMH) in
November 2002, Paris, France; «Combination of metaheuristic and
local search with Constraint Programming techniques» (MLS+CP) in
November 2005, Nantes, France; «Recent Advances in
Multi-Objective Optimization» (RAMOO), in 2015 and 2018, Nantes,
France, and «Juliaday
Nantes'2019 on "Julia and Optimization"», June 2019,
Nantes, France.
He has been co-chair of the scientific committee of
ROADEF'2012, the 13th conference of the French National Society
of Operations Research and Decision Science. In December 2013,
he organized the ORO'2013 workshop, Nantes, France.
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