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COR
2006
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Implementing and testing the tabu cycle and conditional probability methods
-- The purpose of this paper is to describe the implementation and testing of the tabu cycle method and two variants of the conditional probability method. These methods were origi...
Manuel Laguna
COR
2006
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Curling's paradox
There is an age old debate in curling about whether it is better to be down one point with last shot, or ahead by one point without. The objective of this paper is to apply sensit...
Kent J. Kostuk, Keith A. Willoughby
COR
2006
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A paradox in optimal flow control of M/M/n queues
Optimal flow control problems of multiple-server (M/M/n) queueing systems are studied. Due to enhanced flexibility of the decision making, intuitively, we expect that grouping tog...
Atsushi Inoie, Hisao Kameda, Corinne Touati
COR
2006
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Batching work and rework processes with limited deterioration of reworkables
We study the problem of planning the production of new and recovering defective items of the same product manufactured on the same facility. Items of the product are produced in b...
Karl Inderfurth, Adam Janiak, Mikhail Y. Kovalyov,...
COR
2006
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Event tree based sampling
Joocheol Kim
COR
2006
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Parametric tabu-search for mixed integer programs
A parametric form of tabu-search is proposed for solving mixed integer programming (MIP) problems that creates and solves a series of linear programming (LP) problems embodying br...
Fred Glover
COR
2006
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Heuristics for a bidding problem
In this paper, we study a bidding problem which can be modeled as a set packing problem. A simulated annealing heuristic with three local moves, including an embedded branch-and-b...
Yunsong Guo, Andrew Lim, Brian Rodrigues, Yi Zhu