I work on combinatorial optimization research topics applied to energy management problems at EDF Lab.

Publications

A list of my publications is available on my Google Scholar profile.

Preprints

The symmetric-weight chain-precedence knapsack polytope (P Bendotti, A Heintzmann, C Rottner) 2026
A two-phase Branch&Cut scheme for Integer Programs with polyhedral symmetries (P Bendotti, A Heintzmann, C Rottner) 2026
BORWin: Exact algorithm based on a Bi-Objective Relaxation for Window-constrained problems (C. Artigues, P. Bendotti, A. Heintzmann, S.U. Ngueveu, C. Rottner) 2026
Improving Dantzig-Wolfe relaxation through crosswise decomposition (P Bendotti, P Fouilhoux, C Rottner, T Vignon) 2025

Generalized min-up/min-down polytopes (C. Rottner), 2025. Discrete Optimization, 55, 100866.
A comparison of alternative models for solving a non-linear single plant Hydro Unit Commitment problem (A. Heintzmann, C. Artigues, P. Bendotti, S.U. Ngueveu, C. Rottner), 2024. Computers & Operations Research
Orbitopal fixing for the full (sub-)orbitope and application to the Unit Commitment Problem (P. Bendotti, P. Fouilhoux, C. Rottner), 2021. Mathematical Programming Serie A.
Symmetry-breaking inequalities for ILP with structured sub-symmetries (P. Bendotti, P. Fouilhoux, C. Rottner), 2020. Mathematical Programming Serie B.
The Min-up/Min-down Unit Commitment Polytope (P. Bendotti, P. Fouilhoux, C. Rottner), 2018. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 36(3), 1024-1058.
On the complexity of the Unit Commitment Problem (P. Bendotti, P. Fouilhoux, C. Rottner), 2018. Annals of Operations Research, 274(1), 119-130.

2015-2018: PhD Thesis, CIFRE EDF R&D in Combinatorial Optimization, Sorbonne Université.
2011-2015: Engineering Degree, ENSTA ParisTech.
2014-2015: Master’s Degree in Operations Research, CNAM.

2024 : ATHENS week at Ecole des Ponts, on European electricity system planning (2050) as a serious game (by numerical simulation)
2024 : Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, master MPRO (Electricity production planning and symmetry issues in Integer Programming)
Since 2019 : Sorbonne Université, ANDROIDE Master (Electricity production planning and symmetry issues in Integer Programming)
Since 2017 : EDF internal training “Methods and concepts of optimization for energy management”
2016-2018: Sorbonne Université. Teaching assistant for undergraduate computer science courses.

Since 2024 : Board member of the French Optimization Society (ROADEF)
Reviewer for: Energy, Energy Systems, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Optimization