This paper is motivated by the fact that mixed integer nonlinear programming is an important and difficult area for which there is a need for developing new methods and software f...
Pierre Bonami, Lorenz T. Biegler, Andrew R. Conn, ...
The Tree-of-Hubs Location Problem is studied. This problem, which combines several aspects of some location, network design and routing problems, is inspired by those transportati...
Negotiation events in industrial procurement involving multiple, highly customisable goods pose serious challenges to buying agents when trying to determine the best set of provid...
We study the problem of computing the k maximum sum subsequences. Given a sequence of real numbers x1, x2, . . . , xn and an integer parameter k, 1 k 1 2 n(n - 1), the problem in...
While risk-sensitive (RS) approaches for designing plans of total productive maintenance are critical in manufacturing systems, there is little in the literature by way of theoret...