The problem we consider is that of preparing a minimum cost transportation plan by simultaneously solving the following two sub-problems: first the assignm...

This paper presents a model for the optimization of productivity in a steel plant comprised of four arc furnaces and three continuous casting machines and su...

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) involves the design of a set of minimum cost routes, originating and terminating at a central depot, for a fleet of vehicl...

The two-dimensional cutting-stock problem consists of laying out a specified list of rectangular pieces on rectangular sheets, in such a way as to minimize t...

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) involves the design of a set of minimum cost routes for a fleet of vehicles which services exactly once a set of customers...

Schedule compression is a major concern in project management. We propose an extension of the classical crashing model to include the managerial practice of...

This paper shows how the subtour elimination constraints developed by Miller, Tucker and Zemlin for the traveling salesman problem can be improved and exten...

We consider projects represented by a PERT network, with convex cost-of-time functions on individual activities, and we show the existence of an efficient m...

The multiple vehicle many-to-many routing problem is presented in the context of a dial-a-ride system. It is solved by mini-clustering first and optimal ro...

We present an algorithm that solves the problem of finding the vehicle schedule which minimizes total inconveniences for travel along a fixed path, where se...

Le problème classique d'optimisation de la capacité des réseaux de télécommunications s'énonce comme suit: pour un réseau dont la structure, la demande et l...

Several single-commodity, two-commodity and multi-commodity flow formulations have recently been introduced for the travelling salesman problem. The purpose...

In this paper, we present general formulations for the stochastic vehicle routing problem with capacity restrictions in which the <i>m</i> vehicle tours hav...

Given a weighted graph with profits associated with the vertices, the selective travelling salesman problem (or orienteering problem) consists of selecting ...

We present a dual algorithm to minimize a separable convex function under ratio constraints between variables. This minimization problem occurs when the dep...

The problem is to elaborate a minimum cost transportation plan by simultaneously solving the following two sub-problems: the assignment of available units at...

This paper deals with efficient computation of a certain type of Nash-Cournot equilibria in multi-stage oligopolies. The generic structure analyzed herein r...

We consider an oligopolistic industry extracting a non-renewable resource sold in a competitive market. We show, first, that if all players, but one, have i...

We present an algorithm that solve the problem of finding the best vehicle time schedule (minimizing total inconveniences) for a fixed path, knowing that vis...

This paper describes a family of stochastic location-routing problems which consist of simultaneously locating a depot among a set of potential sites, of det...