The subject of this paper is the formulation and solution of a variation of the classical binary knapsack problem. The variation that is addressed is termed the ``fixed-charge kna...
National Statistical Agencies routinely release large amounts of tabular information. Prior to dissemination, tabular data needs to be processed to avoid the disclosure of individ...
Scheduling trainees (graduate students) is a complicated problem that has to be solved frequently in many hospital departments. We will describe a trainee-scheduling problem encou...
In this paper, we present a stochastic model for the dynamic fleet management problem with random travel times. Our approach decomposes the problem into time-staged subproblems by...
Sensitivity analysis is one of the most interesting and preoccupying areas in optimization. Many attempts are made to investigate the problem's behavior when the input data c...