We consider the approximation of nonlinear bilevel mathematical programs by solvable programs of the same type, <i>i.e.</i>, bilevel programs involving line...

Recently, Araujo and De la Pena (1998) gave bounds for the connectivity index of chemical trees as a function of this index for general trees and the ramifi...

The pooling problem, which is fundamental to the petroleum industry, describes a situation where products possessing different attribute qualities are mixed...

This paper deals with the class of uncertain continuous-time linear systems with Markovian jumps, time-delay, and saturating actuators. Under norm-bounded u...

We prove that amongst all fullerenes the dodecahedron has maximum smallest eigenvalue (equal to -<img src="G0234-1.gif" align=middle>), followed by the thre...

We investigate the effects of retailer's myopic behavior on channel members strategies and on sales in a single-manufacturer single-retailer distribution ne...

We ask whether young agents prefer to work in different-age or same-age production pairs in an overlapping-generations model where wages are reputation-base...

A common question asked by users of direct search algorithms is how to use derivative information at iterates where it is available. This paper addresses th...

This paper deals with the class of uncertain systems with multiple time-delays. The stability and stabibizability of this class of systems are considered. T...

This paper deals with the class of continuous-time linear systems with Markovian jumps and multiple time-delays. The systems we are treating are assumed to ...

The paper identifies optimal dynamic marketing strategies in a channel of distribution. A number of (identical) retailers promote locally a manufacturer's b...

There is increased interest in rating types of hospitals or geographical regions containing hospitals on the basis of their performance in the provision of ...

This paper describes a method for evaluating the kinetic constants in a rate expression for catalytic combustion applications using experimental light-off c...

This article deals with the problem of GPRS simulation and performance. The GPRS is an evolution of the GSM that allows packet data transfer. An important i...

The AutoGraphiX (AGX) system determines classes of extremal or near extremal graphs with a Variable Neighborhood Search heuristic. From these, conjectures m...

This note addresses the issue of computation of the characteristic function values in a <i>n</i>-player linear-state cooperative differential game. One sho...

This article considers the (1|<i>X_p</i>-medianoid problem on a network <i>N</i>=(<i>V,E</i>) with vertex and edge demands. There are already <i>p...

In the <i>Maximum Cardinality Bin Packing Problem</i>, we are given <i>m</i> bins of capacity <i>c</i> and <i>n</i> items of weights <i>w_i</i> (...

In this paper, we describe <i>H</i>-differentials of some well known NCP functions and their merit functions. We show how, under appropriate conditions on ...

This article reviews ten of the most important tabu search heuristics for the vehicle routing problem. Some of the main tabu search features are first desc...