Publications

Published (Peer-reviewed journals, conferences and workshops)

Integration of offshore energy into national energy system: a case study on Belgium

Jocelyn Mbenoun, Guillaume Derval, Ghislain Detienne, Thierry Deschuyteneer, Juan Vazquez, Damien Ersnt
Applied Energy, 2025 [Paper link] 

GBOML: a structure-exploiting optimization modelling language in Python

Bardhyl Miftari, Mathias Berger, Guillaume Derval, Quentin Louveaux, Damien Ernst
Optimization Methods and Software, 2024 [Paper link] 

A unified definition of hosting capacity, applications and review

Amina Benzerga, Alireza Bahmanyar, Guillaume Derval, Damien Ernst
IEEE Access, 2024 [Paper link] 

Symbolism for modelling, reformulations, and parallelism: MaxiCP-Modelling

Guillaume Derval, Damien Ernst
The 22nd workshop on Constraint Modelling and Reformulation, ModRef 2023, 2023 [Paper link] 

Optimal control of renewable energy communities with controllable assets

Samy Aittahar, Miguel Manuel de Villena, Guillaume Derval, Michael Castronovo, Ioannis Boukas, Quentin Gemine, Damien Ernst
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2023 [Paper link] 

A review of the Constraint Programming MOOC on EdX

Augustin Delecluse, Guillaume Derval, Laurent Michel, Pierre Schaus, Pascal Van Hentenryck
Workshop on Teaching Constraint Programming, WTCP 2023, 2023 [Paper link] 

Optimal Decoding of Hidden Markov Models With Consistency Constraints

Alexandre Dubray, Guillaume Derval, Siegfried Nijssen, Pierre Schaus
International Conference on Discovery Science, 2022 [Paper link] 

Maximal-Sum submatrix search using a hybrid contraint programming/linear programming approach

Guillaume Derval, Pierre Schaus
European Journal of Operational Research, 2022 [Paper link] 

Nowcasting COVID-19 hospitalizations using Google Trends and LSTM

Guillaume Derval, Vincent François-Lavet, Pierre Schaus
AI 4 Social Good workshop 2020, 2020 [Paper link] 

Mining constrained regions of interest: An optimization approach

Alexandre Dubray, Guillaume Derval, Siegfried Nijssen, Pierre Schaus
International Conference on Discovery Science, 2020 [Paper link] 

The maximum weighted submatrix coverage problem: A CP approach

Guillaume Derval, Vincent Branders, Pierre Dupont, Pierre Schaus
International conference on integration of constraint programming, artificial intelligence, and operations research (CPAIOR 2019), 2019 [Paper link] 

Mining a maximum weighted set of disjoint submatrices

Vincent Branders, Guillaume Derval, Pierre Schaus, Pierre Dupont
International Conference on Discovery Science, 2019 [Paper link] 

An aggregate learning approach for interpretable semi-supervised population prediction and disaggregation using ancillary data

Guillaume Derval, Frédéric Docquier, Pierre Schaus
Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2019), 2019 [Paper link] 

Improved filtering for the bin-packing with cardinality constraint

Guillaume Derval, Jean-Charles Régin, Pierre Schaus
Constraints Journal (presented at the CP conference 2017), 2018 [Paper link] 

Embarassingly Parallel Search Reengineered

Guillaume Derval, Pierre Schaus, Jean-Charles Régin
Doctoral Program of the 22nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2016), 2016 [Paper link] 

Automatic grading of programming exercises in a MOOC using the INGInious platform

Guillaume Derval, Anthony Gego, Pierre Reinbold, Benjamin Frantzen, Peter Van Roy
European Stakeholder Summit on experiences and best practices in and around MOOCs (EMOOCS’15), 2015 [Paper link] 

Under review (Peer-reviewed journals, conferences and workshops)

Sensitivity analysis for linear changes of the constraint matrix of a (mixed-integer) linear program

Bardhyl Miftari, Quentin Louveaux, Damien Ernst, Guillaume Derval
Open Journal of Mathematical Optimization, 2025 [Paper link] 

Optimal Control of Renewable Energy Communities subject to Network Peak Fees with Model Predictive Control and Reinforcement Learning Algorithms

Samy Aittahar, Adrien Bolland, Guillaume Derval, Damien Ernst
IEEE Access, 2025 [Paper link] 

Lead-cooled fast reactor SMR integration: An off-grid study case based on a real-life demand

Antoine Larbanois, Bardhyl Miftari, Antoine Mouchamps, Ayyildiz Kerem Enesb, Vincent Schryvers, Guillaume Derval, Damien Ernst
Energy Conversion and Management: X, 2025

Efficient LP warmstarting for linear modifications of the constraint matrix

Guillaume Derval, Bardhyl Miftari, Damien Ernst, Quentin Louveaux
SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2025

Distributed e-Fuel Hubs (DEFH): A Case Study of a Belgian Fischer-Tropsh liquids Hub

Samy Mokeddem, Bardhyl Miftari, Guillaume Derval, Damien Ernst
Applied Energy, 2025

Aperiodic tilings: a CP journey

Guillaume Derval, Christophe Lecoutre
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2026, 2025