In this paper, we study the procurement problem faced by a buyer who needs to purchase a variety of goods from suppliers applying a so-called total quantity discount policy. This ...
Dries R. Goossens, A. J. T. Maas, Frits C. R. Spie...
Recommender systems — systems that suggest to users in e-commerce sites items that might interest them — adopt a static view of the recommendation process and treat it as a pr...
A hitting set for a collection of sets is a set that has a nonempty intersection with each set in the collection; the hitting set problem is to find a hitting set of minimum card...
Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran, Richard Karp, Erick Mo...
— The assignment problem constitutes one of the fundamental problems in the context of linear programming. Besides its theoretical significance, its frequent appearance in the a...
Michael M. Zavlanos, Leonid Spesivtsev, George J. ...
— The coverage and connectivity problem in sensor networks has received significant attention of the research community in the recent years. In this paper, we study this problem...
Arunabha Sen, Nibedita Das, Ling Zhou, Bao Hong Sh...