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...

This paper addresses the guaranteed cost control problem of jump linear systems with norm bounded uncertain parameters. A time-multiplied performance index ...

The paper considers a channel of distribution consisting of a single manufacturer and retailer. The manufacturer advertises in national media, to build up t...

The purpose of this article is to describe several applications of the Clustered Traveling Salesman Problem arising in areas as diverse as vehicle routing, ...

A survey is made of computer systems which help to obtain and sometimes provide automatically proofs, conjectures and refutations in graph theory.

The complexity status of the maximum stable set problem in the class of <i>P</i>₅-free graphs is unknown. In this paper, we first propose a chara...

Call and put options embedded in bonds are of American-style, and cannot be priced in a closed-form. In this paper, we formulate the problem of pricing thes...

This paper investigates several questions related to the location of facilities in multi-storey buildings in the presence of lifts. Where should facilities ...

The maximum stable set problem is NP-hard, even when restricted to <i>banner</i>-free graphs. In this paper, we use the augmenting graph approach to attack ...

In this paper we introduce a new formulation of the logistics network design problem encountered in deterministic, single-country, single-period contexts. O...