The author considers serial correlation testing in seasonal models. A test statistic is derived, using a spectral approach. Spectral tests usually rely on ...

In this article, robust estimation and prediction in multivariate autoregressive models with exogenous variables (VARX) are considered. The conditional lea...

In this survey, we examine an important class of facility location problems known as the multisource Weber problem (also referred to as the continuous locat...

A recent comparison of evolutionary, neural network, and scatter search heuristics for solving the p-median problem is completed by (i) gathering or obtaini...

The convergence of different classes of traffic with different priorities over the wire- less network has become a reality. To insure that the users of key ...

We examine and compare simulation-based algorithms for solving the agent scheduling problem in a multiskill call center. This problem consists in minimizing...

We consider the bandwidth coloring problem, a generalization of the well-known graph coloring problem. For the latter problem, a classical theorem, discover...

Random number generators based on linear recurrences modulo 2 are among the fastest long-period generators currently available. The uniformity and independe...

We propose and analyze a quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) method for simulating a discrete-time Markov chain on a discrete state space of dimension <img src="/cgi-...

Starting from coding-theoretic constructions, we build digital nets with good figures of merit, where the figure of merit takes into account the equidistrib...

Variance reduction techniques (VRTs) are often essential to make simulation quick and accurate enough to be useful. A case in point is simulation-based opti...

We study in this paper the impact of a Public Disclosure Program(PDP) as well as traditional environmental regulation (tax/subsidy) on optimal policies of t...

In this manuscript we tackle the optimal upgrade of an innovative optical transport network architecture called the Petaweb, which has a particular composite...

An edge coloring of a graph <img src="/cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?G = (V,E)"> is a function <img src="/cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?c:E \rightarrow N"> that assigns a co...

In this paper, we consider the problem of constructing confidence intervals for a population median when the underlying population is discrete. We describe ...

We consider the problem of assigning patients to nurses for home care services. The aim is to balance the workload of the nurses while avoiding long travels...

The probabilistic satisfiability problem is to verify the consistency of a set of probability values or intervals for logical propositions. The (tight) prob...

Optimization problems modeled in the AMPL modeling language [Fourer, Gay and Kernighan (2002)] may be examined by a set of tools found in the AMPL Library [...

We consider the problem of separating two sets of points in an n-dimensional real space with a (hyper)plane that minimizes the sum of <i>L</i>₂-n...

We develop a nonparametric Bayesian functional estimation method, using monotone wavelet approximation, for hazard estimation from randomly right censored d...