Mining complexes are value chains where extracted material from different mines is transformed into sellable products through a set of processing streams. ...

New digital technologies including the development of advanced sensors and monitoring devices have enabled a mining complex to acquire new information abou...

Facility networks can be disrupted by, for example, power outages, poor weather conditions, or natural disasters, and the probabilities of these events may b...

We consider the problem of efficiently managing a fishery where pollution externalities are present. The open-access bionomic model is analyzed in an $n$...

In the recent years, the development of new algorithms for multiobjective optimization has considerably grown. A large number of performance indicators has...

A hyper-heuristic refers to a search method or a learning mechanism for selecting or generating heuristics to solve computational search problems. Operat...

In this paper, we develop algorithmic approaches for a recently defined class of games, the integer programming games. Two general methods to approximate an...

In this paper we tackle the problem of eNodeB failure detection in LTE networks using Binary Classification techniques under smart-cities Machine-to-Machine ...

In this paper, we study the problem of responsibility sharing for product recovery, and its relation to the design of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) ...

The optimal reactive power dispatch (ORPD) problem is an alternating current optimal power flow (ACOPF) problem where discrete control devices for regulating...

Top-tier customers -that is, those 20% of customers that typically bring in 80% of all profits- are extremely valuable to companies. In the many instances ...

The primal adjacency-based algorithm and the multi-directional dynamic programming algorithm are two exact methods that have recently been developed to effic...

A new solution approach is developed herein to address the topic of multi-product open-pit mine production scheduling with multi-element uncertainty. The m...

This paper addresses the problem of distributing uniformly infrared radiative energy intercepted by a thermoplastic sheet surface during the infrared radiati...

Genetic algorithms are used for feature selection through a fitness function that drives the evolution of populations. With parallel universes, an importance...

The eccentric connectivity index of a connected graph $G$ is the sum over all vertices $v$ of the product $d_G(v)e_G(v)$, where $d_G(v)$ is ...

We study an integrated process configuration, lot-sizing, and scheduling problem, which appears in a real production environment in the packaging industry. P...

In this paper, we consider non-stationary response variables and covariates, where the marginal distributions and the associated copula may be time-dependent...

We extend a quasi-Monte Carlo scheme designed for coagulation to the simulation of the coagulation-fragmentation equation. A number $N$ of particles is ...