The Lamsade is a French laboratory located in the Paris Dauphine University, it was created by Bernard Roy in 1976. Lamsade stands for Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Modélisation des Systèmes pour l'Aide à la Décision. About 70 employees work for this laboratory and six masters (of which two are research-oriented) are associated with the Lamsade. Two main research topics are the computer science and operations research.