In this paper, a solution approach based on the column generation technique is pre- sented for solving a time-indexed formulation of the total weighted tard...

We consider vehicle routing and crew scheduling problems that involve a lexico- graphic bi-level objective function (for instance, minimizing first the numb...

This paper examines the plant location problem under the objective of maximizing return-on-investment. However, in place of the standard assumption that all...

Column generation is one of the most successful approaches for solving large scale linear programming problems. However, degeneracy difficulties and long-ta...

Column generation has become a powerful tool in solving large scale integer programs. It is well known that most of the often reported compatibility issues ...

Several upper bounds on the largest Laplacian eigenvalue of a graph <i>G</i>, in terms of degree and average degree of neighbors of its vertices, have been ...

This paper considers a shift scheduling problem that includes different forms of flexibility in terms of shift starting times, break lengths and break plac...

Une étude du transport de roses coupées, en collaboration avec la plantation Mira- flores évalue l’exportation de Bogotá (Colombie) vers Miami (USA), port d...

La localisation d'un site d'approvisionnement pour minimiser les coûts d'opérations est une problématique industrielle courante. Les variables classiques co...

Several variants and generalizations of the Or-opt heuristic for the <i>Symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem</i> are developed and compared on random and pla...

The objectives of this paper are twofold; we first demonstrate the flexibility of the mesh adaptive direct search (MADS) in identifying locally optimal algo...

The continuous location-allocation problem requires finding sites for <i>m</i> new facilities in the plane in order to serve <i>n</i> users such that the to...

Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) is a recent and effective metaheuristic for solving combinatorial and global optimization problems. It is capable of esca...

Les problèmes de chargement statique de groupes turbo-alternateurs à vapeur peuvent être exprimés sous forme de minimisation d’une somme de fonction de coût ...

Dynamic programming is applied to the economic dispatch problem with spin- ning reserve constraint. A first algorithm, based on a direct application of Bell...

This paper introduces the first exact approach for constructing aircrew member personalized monthly work schedules when a preferential bidding system (PBS) ...

The global <i>k</i>-means heuristic is a recently proposed (Likas et al. 2003) incremental approach for minimum sum-of-squares clustering of a set <i>X</i> ...

In this paper, we examine the sensitivity of trust-region algorithms on the param- eters related to the step acceptance and update of the trust region. We s...

Recent developments in numerical methods for solving large differentiable nonlinear optimization problems are reviewed. State-of-the-art algorithms for solv...

We consider the problem of separating two sets of points in an <i>n</i>-dimensional real space with a (hyper)plane that minimizes the sum of <i>L<sub>p</sub...