Predicting policyholders’ claims over a year is crucial for a Property-Casualty insurance company. These expenditures, popularly called losses, are incurred by the insurer when reimbursing the policyholders’ claims. The insurance company is required to pay any legitimate claim made by a policyholder, in exchange the latter pays an amount of money, called the premium, to […]

Happiness has always captured the attention of societies around the world. However, it was just at the beginning of the twenty first century, with the emergence of Positive Psychology, that a more scientific approach to the subject was undertaken. Due to the dynamic and fluctuating nature of happiness, mathematical modelling is recognized as an important […]

In the last few years, a high increase in the interest of traders and investors towards financial instruments directly led to an important augmentation of the information received daily by exchanges. Exchange regulators, who constantly monitor markets to unveil potential infractions, traditionally perform their investigation manually and the notable growth in market activity represents an […]

The project aims to improve disease prevention and control by including cognitive variables in dynamic models of disease epidemic. Classical compartmental models of disease dynamics are typically used to explore the extent to which an infectious disease propagates through the population, while cognitive factors such as misinformation and degree of compliance with public health measures […]

Merinio propose une solution de gestion des remplacements qui permet à l’employeur de construire des horaires pour une certaine demande en quarts de travail, puis de communiquer directement avec les employés pour leur proposer des opportunités de remplacements. Les employés peuvent aussi prévenir leur employeur de leurs absences et accepter une des propositions de remplacements […]

L’utilisation de modèles statistiques pour décrire l’évolution du passif des polices est très recherché par l’industrie de l’assurance dommage, alors qu’il pose des problèmes théoriques extrêmement pertinents pour la science actuarielle. La dépendance entre les lignes d’affaires est un concept connu mais très complexe à quantifier. Une meilleure compréhension de cette dépendance par l’entreprise est […]

The goal of this project is to examine the effect of one-time unconditional direct cash-transfer to recently homeless individuals in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Building on promising results from our research team’s ground-breaking pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 50 cash recipients, the current project seeks to confirm this preliminary evidence using a larger RCT with […]

Shepell·fgi is a leading provider of Employee and Family Assistance Programs (EFAPs) for domestic and global clients. As digital technology and online social networks became increasingly important, Shepell·fgi added new digital services (First Chat, Video Counselling, Online Access, and other online programs) other than the traditional delivery channels (telephone and in-person appointments). Many recent studies […]

Valentine Soto (VS) est actuellement en thèse à l’Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) sous la direction de Claire Amiot (CA). Elle bénéficie d’un contrat doctoral international du CNRS à l’UGA dont l’IRL d’accueil est le CRM de Montréal. Son référent scientifique à l’IRL est Thomas Brüstle (TB), professeur l’Université de Sherbrooke (UdS). Ce contrat engage VS […]

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is one of the classical problems studied in Theoretical Computer Science and asks for an assignment of values to variables such that given constraints are satisfied. The CSP includes as special cases for example graph coloring and Boolean satisfiability. Besides its theoretical importance, it has applications in many different domains, […]

La gestion des opérations de centre d’appels d’Hydro-Québec est une tâche très complexe qui implique souvent un équilibre entre des objectifs contradictoires. En effet, les gestionnaires ont pour but d’atteindre des niveaux élevés à la fois en termes de qualité de service et d’efficacité opérationnelle. La qualité du service est généralement mesurée par les principaux […]

Topological data analysis is a tool used to analyze the shape of a given dataset. It allows one to find topological or geometrical features of even large collections of data. Persistent homology is one of the main approaches to topological data analysis in recent times. The strategy is to set some rule to build geometrical […]