<p>In this paper, we present a scalable and agile design for next generation optical backbone networks. We assume each node to be equipped with a MultiServic...

This chapter deals with an application of stochastic control or stochastic game methods to the design of optimal timing of climate policies. In the first par...

The proximity <img src="/cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?\pi"> of a graph <i>G</i> is the minimum average distance from a vertex of <i>G</i> to all others. Similarly, th...

Given a set of entities associated with points in Euclidean space, minimum sum-of-squares clustering (MSSC) consist in partitioning this set into clusters su...

This work analyzes constrained black box optimization in which the functions defining the problem are periodic with respect to some or all the variables. We ...

The paper revisits the advertising differential game suggested by G. Leitmann and W. E. Schmitendorf in their paper "Profit Maximization Through Advertising...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the pricing of the Chicago Board of Trade Treasury-Bond futures. The difficulty to price it arises from its multiple ...

We propose a deterministic, discrete-time, finite-horizon oligopoly model to investigate investment and production equilibrium strategies, in a setting where...

In this paper, we study the <i>Lebesgue</i> property for convex risk measures for a class of càdlàg processes, extending previous work of Delbaen (2000) and ...

In the <i>Vehicle Routing Problem with Deliveries, Selective Pickups and Time Windows</i>, the set of customers is the union of <i>delivery customers</i> and...

During the last three decades, the computer has been widely used in spectral graph theory. Many results about graph eigenvalues were first conjectured, and i...

Discrete-time survival data with time-varying covariates are often encountered in practice. One such example is bankruptcy studies where the status of each f...

The <i>improved primal simplex</i> (IPS) method has been proposed by Elhallaoui et al. (2008). We rewrite the theory of IPS for a cold start with an initial ...

One of the most important aspects of profiling health care providers or services is constructing a model that is flexible enough to allow for random variatio...

This paper focuses on the use of different memory strategies to improve multistart methods. A network design problem in which the costs are given by discrete...

This work studies multi-objective optimization <i>(MOP)</i> of nonsmooth functions subject to general constraints. We first present definitions and optimalit...

We study a dynamic Cournot game with capacity accumulation under demand uncertainty, in which the investment is perfectly divisible, irreversible, and produc...

In-house production or outsourcing are important strategic decisions for planning production and capacity in business organizations. Outsourcing to overseas ...

A Public Disclosure Program (PDP) is compared to a traditional environmental regulation (exemplified by a tax/subsidy) in a simple dynamic framework. A PDP a...

It is observed that mutations in the formulations of test problems over time are not infrequent. Ensuing problems are illustrated with examples from geometri...