<p>The paper considers a problem of how to minimize advertising costs to sell seats for a particular event, for instance, a sports game, a rock concert or a...

We consider a dynamic marketing channel involving one manufacturer and one retailer. The strategic variables of the former are the wholesale price and the a...

Winter road maintenance operations involve a host of decision-making problems at the strategic, tactical, operational, and real-time levels. Those operation...

In this paper we consider the constant rank unconstrained quadratic 0-1 optimization problem, CR-QP01 for short. This problem consists in minimizing the qua...

Winter road maintenance planning involves a variety of decision-making problems related to the routing of vehicles for spreading chemicals and abrasives, fo...

This paper presents the design and dimensioning optimization of a novel optical network structure, called the PetaWeb, having a total capacity of several Pb...

A weighted spatial median is proposed for the multivariate location problem with cluster correlated data. Its limiting distribution is derived under mild co...

The multidimensional scaling (MDS) aims at finding coordinates for a set of <i>n</i> objects in a (low) <i>q</i> dimensional space that best fits dissimilar...

We investigate the common practice of estimating the dependence structure between CDS prices on multi-name credit instruments by the dependence structure of ...

The AutoGraphiX research program led to a new type of application of metaheuristics in graph theory, <i>i.e.</i>, finding conjectures on graph invariants by...

Using the AutoGraphiX 2 system (AGX2), we study relations between graph invariants of the form <img src="/cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?lbn \leq R \oplus i \leq ub...

Colour image quantization is a data compression technique that reduces the total set of colours in an image to a representative subset. This problem is expr...

This paper proposes new tests of randomness for innovations of a large class of time series models. These tests are based on functionals of empirical proces...

This paper deals with the problem of determining optimal reservoir daily operating policy over a one-year period. This problem is stochastic since the daily...

We consider the problem of separating two sets of points in an Euclidean space with a hyperplane that minimizes the sum of <i>L_p</i>-norm distanc...

In the integrated aircraft routing, crew scheduling and flight retiming problem, a minimum-cost set of aircraft routes and crew pairings must be constructed...

This paper shows that the important result obtained in a static marketing channel, namely, that the manufacturer can coordinate the channel through a two-pa...

<p> We consider an infinite-horizon differential game played by two direct marketers. Each player controls the number of emails sent to potential customers...

Past studies have shown the unstability of unstructured peer-to-peer networks, in particular Gnutella. Because of this unstability, queries in these network...

We propose a general setting for pricing single-name knock-out credit derivatives. Examples include Credit Default Swaps (CDS), European and Bermudan CDS op...