The newsvendor problem describes the dilemma of a newspaper salesman—how many papers should he purchase each day to resell, when he doesn’t know the demand? We develop approach...
The spectral method with discrete spherical harmonics transform plays an important role in many applications. In spite of its advantages, the spherical harmonics transform has a dr...
Digital music players protect songs by enforcing licenses that convey specific rights for individual songs or groups of songs. For licenses specified in industry, we show that d...
The problem of dividing a sequence of values into segments occurs in database systems, information retrieval, and knowledge management. The challenge is to select a finite number ...
This study investigates an optimization-based heuristic for the Robotic Cell Problem. This problem arises in automated cells and is a complex ow shop problem with a single transpo...
Jacques Carlier, Mohamed Haouari, Mohamed Kharbech...