Computer Science and Management Group

Mathematics and Operational Research Department

Mathematics and Operational Research (MathRO) is a department in the Computer Science and Management Group of Faculté Polytechnique de Mons within University of Mons (UMONS), Belgium.

MathRO's research activities concentrate in the following fields: multiple criteria decision analysis and multi-objective optimization, data mining, applications of combinatorial optimization to production scheduling and logistics, numerical resolution of partial differential equations.

The department is in charge of teaching mathematics at undergraduate level as well as, at the graduate level, operational research, optimization, statistics and numerical analysis. 

Five professors, two senior researchers and twelve doctoral students are currently attached to this department. 

On this site, you will find more detail about our research activities and an overview of the courses taught by us at UMONS.  

Address: MathRO, UMONS / Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Rue de Houdain 9, 7000 Mons, Belgium  

Contact:  Marc Pirlot (head of department: marc.pirlot@umons.ac.be); Laurence Wouters (secretary: laurence.wouters@umons.ac.be)  

 

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Modelling and optimizing are the focal point of the activities we have developed for more than twenty years.  Besides fundamental research, we have been and are still involved in many projects and industrial contracts. These have been executed for the benefit of companies belonging to very diverse sectors such as chemical, pharmaceutical, mechanical and steel industries, mining, energy production, transport and logistics sector, services, public sector.

Our scientific production contributes to three of the Research Centers of the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons:

• Information technologies Research Center: topic "Information Processing"

In this framework, we develop our expertise regarding multi-objective optimization, analysing and exploiting non-statistical data analysis (preferences, expert qualitative judgments, for instance) and accounting for imprecision in decision processes with multiple criteria and/or multiple experts. Very diverse tools and techniques are used ranging from data mining to fuzzy logic and from optimization to multiple criteria decision analysis.

By our involvement in many case studies and contracts, we have developed a great expertise in the conception and the implementation of solutions to production scheduling problems as well as logistics and transportation problems.

• Risks Research Center: topic "Risk management"

Multiple criteria decision analysis, methods for taking into account uncertainty, risk assessment methods are developed in the framework of this research center.

• BioSys Research Center: topic "Bioprocess: design and control"

Our research related to the numerical resolution of partial differential equations contributes to this research center. The tools that are being developed are applied to various domains, in particular to biological systems.