226:. During that academic year, he was the recipient of the 2017 Prix d'excellence FRQNT and the Urgel-Archambault award in physics, mathematics, computer science and engineering. Laporte became the first HEC Montréal professor to ever receive this distinction. The following year, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the
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Canadian Operational Research Society and
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A tabu search heuristic for the vehicle routing problem
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