In some schools and universities, students must sometimes be divided into several teams in such a way that each team provides a good representation of the cl...

Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition and column generation, devised for linear programs, is a success story in large scale integer programming. We outline and relate ...

We propose a differential game to study retailer’s allocation strategy of shelf-space shares between the manufacturers of two competing brands. Each manufact...

It is a common practice for a multi-branch firm to have its branches ordering a group of items from a single supplier. Obviously, co-ordinating the replenish...

This paper proposes a two-player, finite-horizon differential game model to analyze joint implementation in environmental projects, one of the flexible mecha...

WDM networks offer a technology that can transferred several optical signals into a single optical fiber. This allows for more efficient use of the huge capa...

This paper deals with the class of uncertain continuous-time linear stochastic hybrid systems with Wiener process. The uncertainties we are considering are ...

This paper deals with the class of continuous-time linear stochastic hybrid systems with Wiener process. The <i>H</i>_&infin; stochastic stabiliz...

A constant fixed cost of establishing a facility is introduced within the framework of minisum facility location in the continuous space. The solution metho...

Linear mixed 0-1 integer programming problems may be reformulated as equivalent continuous bilevel linear programming (<i>BLP</i>) problems. We exploit the...

In this exploratory study, a segmentation analysis of a shopping mall’s customers is conducted according to the activities they performed during their visit,...

In this article, we attempt to give a comprehensive review of how classical supply chain models have evolved with advances in information technology and its ...

We consider the design of a hybrid opto-electronic network with grooming. We propose a model in which we take into account the fact that grooming traffic req...

A zone-dependent fixed cost is introduced within the framework of minisum location of facilities in the continuous space. An efficient algorithm for determin...

A critical aspect of operating an airline is to continuously maintain adequate staffing levels of qualified crewmembers. The airline must be able to plan sev...

Using deformed products of arrangements, we construct a family of linear programs with <i>n</i> inequalities in <img src="real.png" align="middle" height=17>...

In the long term, the Kyoto Protocol itself will be insufficient to stabilize the greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere; the participation of...

The integrated aircraft routing and crew scheduling problem consists in determining a minimum-cost set of aircraft routes and crew pairings such that each fl...

Column generation is often used to solve problems involving set partitioning constraints, such as vehicle routing and crew scheduling problems. When these co...

This paper examines the convergence properties of two well-known heuristics: variable neighborhood search (VNS) and random multistart local search (MLS). Bot...