In the present paper we review the method of augmenting graphs, which is a general approach to solve the maximum independent set problem. Our objective is th...

The problem retained for the ROADEF'2001 international challenge was a frequency assignment problem with polarization constraints (FAPP). This NP-hard probl...

<i>Tabucol</i>&nbsp; is a tabu search algorithm that tries to determine whether the vertices of a given graph can be colored with a &#64257;xed number <i>k</...

Two ways for bounding <i>n</i>-variables functions over a box, based on interval evalu- ations of first order derivatives, are compared. The optimal Baumann...

In this paper, we study the Pitman asymptotic efficiencies of the sign and the Wilcoxon signed-rank tests for cluster correlated data. A general expression ...

This paper presents algorithms to find vertex-critical and edge-critical subgraphs in a given graph <i>G</i>, and demonstrates how these critical subgraphs ...

Let <i>G</i>=(<i>V,E</i>) be a graph with vertex set <i>V</i> and edge set <i>E</i>. The <i>k</i>-colouring problem is to assign a colour (a number chosen ...

We consider the bilevel uncapacitated facility location problem with user preferences. It is known that this model may be reformulated as a one-level locati...

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

When applying the 2-opt heuristic to the travelling salesman problem, selecting the best improvement at each iteration gives worse results on average than se...

The berth allocation problem is to allocate space along the quayside to incoming ship at a container terminal in order to minimize some objective function....

In this paper, we adapt the Wilcoxon signed-rank test to the case of cluster correlated data. A simple modification of the estimator of the asymptotic vari...

The berth allocation problem is to allocate berths (i.e., sections of the quayside) to ships arriving in a container port in order to minimize the sum of the...

In this paper, we perform an empirical comparison of the classification error of several ensemble methods based on classification trees. This comparison is b...

We consider the problem of testing the hypothesis that a multivariate location vector is in the positive orthant. A conditionally distribution-free sign te...

An approach is suggested for testing whether the dependence structure of a random sample of multivariate data is appropriately modelled by a given family of ...

The augmenting chain technique has been applied to solve the maximum stable set problem in the class of line graphs (which coincides with the maximum matchin...

Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) is a recent metaheuristic, or framework for building heuristics, which exploits systematically the idea of neighborhood ch...

Given a finite set <i>E</i> and a family <i>F</i>={<i>E</i>₁,...,<i>E_m</i>} of subsets of <i>E</i> such that <i>F</i> covers <i>E</i>...

This paper introduces a new integrated model for the combined day-off and shift scheduling problem (the tour scheduling problem). This model generalizes the...