This article describes a lower bounding procedure and heuristics for the <i>Cycle Cover Problem</i> which consists of determining a least cost cover of an u...

Good heuristic solutions for large Multisource Weber problems can be obtained by solving related <i>p</i>-median problems in which potential locations of th...

This paper introduces a new type of constraints, related to schedule synchronization, in the problem formulation of aircraft fleet assignment and routing pr...

This paper contains some 80 annotated references on the vehicle routing problem. The titles are organized as follows: 1) the classical VRP with capacity an...

In recent years, there have been several important algorithmic developments for the traveling salesman problem and the vehicle routing problem. These inclu...

The multisource Weber problem is to locate simultaneously <i>m</i> facilities in the Euclidean plane in order to minimize the total transportation cost for ...

We consider a weekly locomotive scheduling problem encountered at Swedish State Railways. The objective is to find cyclic locomotive schedules, which minim...

A hypergraph <i>H=(X,E)</i> is <i>nested</i> if its edges are pairwise disjoint or included one into the other. The <i>nesticity</i> of <i>H</i> is defined...

The purpose of this paper is to develop optimal tool partitioning policies and strip sequencing strategies for a class of flexible manufacturing problems. ...

Given a set of entities, Cluster Analysis aims at finding subsets, called clusters, which are homogeneous and/or well separated. As many types of clusterin...

La méthode de génération de colonnes est couramment utilisée pour résoudre des problèmes d'optimisation de grande taille. En pratique, on observe fréquemmen...

We study both the continuous and discrete problems of maximizing the product of two linear functions subject to all variables being between 0 and~1. We fir...

Cet article présente une étude comparative des algorithmes de flot maximum pour la résolution du problème de fermeture maximale sur un graphe. Plusieurs ap...

It is shown that the anytime deduction procedure for probabilistic entailment of Frisch and Haddawy does not have the correctness property when the probabil...

Clustering with a criterion which minimizes the sum of squared distances to cluster centroids is usually done in a heuristic way. An exact polynomial algori...

We study the problem of finding a shortest collision-free path for a point car-like robot maneuvering around polygonal obstacles in a room bounded by a poly...

The paper is concerned with sustainable cooperation in a vertical two-member channel of distribution over an infinite planning horizon. Sustainable intertem...

Two new path problems in graphs are studied: MINRANGE, i.e., find a path from a vertex <i>s</i> to a vertex <i>t</i> with the smallest possible range of a...

The multi-depot vehicle scheduling problem with time windows consists of scheduling a fleet of vehicles to cover a set of tasks at minimum cost. Each task i...

A review is made of models and algorithms for probabilistic satisfiability and its extensions. The basic probabilistic satisfiability problem, in decision f...