We study an iterative cutting-plane algorithm on an integer program, for minimizing the staffing costs of a multiskill call center subject to service-level requirements which are e...
In a problem arising in grooming for two-period optical networks, it is required to decompose the complete graph on n vertices into subgraphs each containing at most C edges, so t...
Charles J. Colbourn, Gaetano Quattrocchi, Violet R...
Branching in mixed-integer (or integer) linear programming requires choosing both the branching variable and the branching direction. This paper develops a number of new methods f...
Early in its history as an academic discipline, depth in computer programming was a primary distinguishing factor between IT and older computing disciplines, such as computer scie...
Given a set of patterns and a similarity measure between them, we will present an optimization framework to approximate a small subset, known as a canonical set, whose members clo...