Éric D. Taillard

13.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
50 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

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Éric D. Taillard is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Éric D. Taillard has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 14 papers in Automotive Engineering and 11 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Éric D. Taillard's work include Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (27 papers), Transportation and Mobility Innovations (14 papers) and Optimization and Packing Problems (14 papers). Éric D. Taillard is often cited by papers focused on Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (27 papers), Transportation and Mobility Innovations (14 papers) and Optimization and Packing Problems (14 papers). Éric D. Taillard collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Canada and France. Éric D. Taillard's co-authors include Michel Gendreau, Jean‐Yves Potvin, François Guertin, Luca Maria Gambardella, Fred Glover, Gilbert Laporte, Nenad Mladenović, Pierre Hansen, Frédéric Semet and Jack Brimberg and has published in prestigious journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Operations Research and Journal of the Operational Research Society.

In The Last Decade

Éric D. Taillard

48 papers receiving 7.6k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Benchmarks for basic scheduling problems

1993 1.7k citations Éric D. Taillard European Journal of Operational Research profile →
A Tabu Search Heuristic for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Soft Time Windows

1997 661 citations Éric D. Taillard, Michel Gendreau et al. Transportation Science profile →
A user's guide to tabu search

1993 637 citations Éric D. Taillard, Éric D. Taillard et al. Annals of Operations Research profile →
Some efficient heuristic methods for the flow shop sequencing problem

1990 633 citations Éric D. Taillard European Journal of Operational Research profile →
Probabilistic diversification and intensification in local search for vehicle routing

1995 617 citations Éric D. Taillard et al. Journal of Heuristics profile →
Robust taboo search for the quadratic assignment problem

1991 527 citations Éric D. Taillard profile →
MACS-VRPTW: a multiple ant colony system for vehicle routing problems with time windows

1999 472 citations Luca Maria Gambardella, Éric D. Taillard et al. ArODES (HES-SO (https://www.hes-so.ch/)) profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Éric D. Taillard	7.0k	1.9k	1.9k	1.3k	1.2k	50	8.3k
David Pisinger	7.9k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	2.0k 1.1×	1.9k 1.5×	1.6k 1.3×	150	10.8k
Jean‐Yves Potvin	6.9k 1.0×	2.2k 1.2×	3.3k 1.8×	976 0.8×	2.2k 1.8×	117	10.2k
Matteo Fischetti	4.6k 0.6×	845 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	985 0.8×	619 0.5×	127	7.0k
Daniele Vigo	8.7k 1.2×	758 0.4×	3.4k 1.8×	670 0.5×	2.8k 2.3×	117	10.6k
Jacques Desrosiers	6.6k 0.9×	474 0.2×	3.0k 1.6×	1.0k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	127	8.1k
Christian Prins	5.9k 0.8×	796 0.4×	2.2k 1.2×	368 0.3×	2.1k 1.8×	103	7.0k
Marius M. Solomon	5.5k 0.8×	533 0.3×	2.8k 1.5×	509 0.4×	1.5k 1.3×	57	6.5k
Jan Karel Lenstra	6.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	748 0.4×	3.0k 2.4×	696 0.6×	124	9.4k
Kenneth Sörensen	2.2k 0.3×	967 0.5×	1.0k 0.6×	267 0.2×	933 0.8×	142	4.5k
Alain Hertz	3.3k 0.5×	982 0.5×	618 0.3×	898 0.7×	475 0.4×	165	4.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Taillard, Éric D.. (2021). A linearithmic heuristic for the travelling salesman problem. European Journal of Operational Research. 297(2). 442–450. 13 indexed citations

Taillard, Éric D., et al.. (2013). POPMUSIC for the world location-routing problem. EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics. 2(3). 231–254. 11 indexed citations

Taillard, Éric D., et al.. (2009). From Point Feature Label Placement to Map Labelling. ArODES (HES-SO (https://www.hes-so.ch/)).

Ostertag, Agnès, et al.. (2008). POPMUSIC for a real-world large-scale vehicle routing problem with time windows. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 60(7). 934–943. 20 indexed citations

Elizondo, David, et al.. (2007). Analysis and test of efficient methods for building recursive deterministic perceptron neural networks. Neural Networks. 20(10). 1095–1108. 12 indexed citations

Elizondo, David, et al.. (2006). Generalisation and the recursive deterministic perceptron.. DMU Open Research Archive (De Montfort University). 3 indexed citations

Taillard, Éric D., et al.. (2001). Adaptive memory programming: A unified view of metaheuristics. European Journal of Operational Research. 135(1). 1–16. 121 indexed citations

Gambardella, Luca Maria, et al.. (1999). MACS-VRPTW: a multiple ant colony system for vehicle routing problems with time windows. ArODES (HES-SO (https://www.hes-so.ch/)). 63–76. 472 indexed citations breakdown →

Taillard, Éric D., et al.. (1997). A Tabu Search Heuristic for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Soft Time Windows. Transportation Science. 31(2). 170–186. 661 indexed citations breakdown →

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Taillard, Éric D. & Luca Maria Gambardella. (1997). Adaptive memories for the Quadratic Assignment Problems. SUPSI ARIS. 66 indexed citations

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Hansen, Pierre, Nenad Mladenović, & Éric D. Taillard. (1996). Heuristic Solution of the Multisource Weber Problem as a p -median Problem. Les Cahiers du GERAD. 1–16. 1 indexed citations

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Gambardella, Luca Maria, Gianluca Bontempi, & Éric D. Taillard. (1996). Simulation and Forecasting in an Intermodal Container Terminal. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 626–630. 22 indexed citations

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Gendreau, Michel, et al.. (1996). A SOLUTION PROCEDURE FOR REAL-TIME ROUTING AND DISPATCHING OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLES. 7 indexed citations

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Taillard, Éric D., Gilbert Laporte, & Michel Gendreau. (1996). Vehicle Routeing with Multiple Use of Vehicles. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 47(8). 1065–1070. 167 indexed citations

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Taillard, Éric D., et al.. (1995). Probabilistic diversification and intensification in local search for vehicle routing. Journal of Heuristics. 1(1). 147–167. 617 indexed citations breakdown →

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Taillard, Éric D.. (1995). Comparison of iterative searches for the quadratic assignment problem. ArODES (HES-SO (https://www.hes-so.ch/)). 3(2). 87–105. 194 indexed citations

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Semet, Frédéric & Éric D. Taillard. (1993). Solving real-life vehicle routing problems efficiently using tabu search. Annals of Operations Research. 41(4). 469–488. 165 indexed citations

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Taillard, Éric D.. (1993). Benchmarks for basic scheduling problems. European Journal of Operational Research. 64(2). 278–285. 1665 indexed citations breakdown →

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Taillard, Éric D.. (1993). Recherches itératives dirigées parallèles. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 4 indexed citations

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Taillard, Éric D.. (1990). Some efficient heuristic methods for the flow shop sequencing problem. European Journal of Operational Research. 47(1). 65–74. 633 indexed citations breakdown →

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