This paper introduces a modified version of the well known global optimization technique named line search method. The modifications refer to the way in which the direction and th...
Given an adequate simulation model of the task environment and payoff function that measures the quality of partially successful plans, competition-based heuristics such as geneti...
We present an iterative cutting plane method for minimizing staffing costs in a service system subject to satisfying acceptable service level requirements over multiple time perio...
For systems where exact constitutive relations are unknown, a microscopic level description can be alternatively used. As microscopic simulations are computationally expensive, th...
The maximum rank correlation (MRC) estimator was originally studied by Han [1987. Nonparametric analysis of a generalized regression model. J. Econometrics 35, 303–316] and Sher...