In this paper an island model is described for the unconstrained Binary Quadratic Problem (BQP), which can be used with up to 2500 binary variables. Our island model uses a master...
The Multi-Compartment Vehicle Routing Problem (MC-VRP) consists of designing transportation routes to satisfy the demands of a set of costumers for several products that because o...
Jorge E. Mendoza, Bruno Castanier, Christelle Gu&e...
An NP-hard production–distribution problem for one product over a multi-period horizon is investigated. The aim is to minimize total cost taking production setups, inventory lev...
Mourad Boudia, Mohamed Aly Ould Louly, Christian P...
Professional sports leagues are a major economic activity around the world. Teams and leagues do not want to waste their investments in players and structure in consequence of poo...
Managing problem tickets is a key issue in the IT services industry. A large service provider may handle thousands of problem tickets from its customer on daily basis. The efficie...
Qihong Shao, Yi Chen, Shu Tao, Xifeng Yan, Nikos A...