Problem solvers, both human and machine, have at their disposal many heuristics that may support effective search. The efficacy of these heuristics, however, varies with the probl...
We studied a supplier selection problem, where a buyer, while facing random demand, is to decide ordering quantities from a set of suppliers with different yields and prices.We pr...
The mainframe workforce is dwindling as the baby boomers look to retire. The problem is we do not have enough mainframe-educated people to replace the retirees. A survey to busine...
Abstract. We consider the general nonlinear optimization problem in 01 variables and provide an explicit equivalent convex positive semidefinite program in 2n - 1 variables. The op...
Background: Statistical bioinformatics is the study of biological data sets obtained by new micro-technologies by means of proper statistical methods. For a better understanding o...