In this article, we develop the two-dimensional positive edge criterion for the dual simplex. This work extends a similar pricing rule implemented by Towhidi...

The problem of optimal real-time transmission of a Markov source under constraints on the expected number of transmissions is considered, both for the discou...

Cake-cutting is a metaphor for problems where a principal agent has to fairly allocate resources. Such problems cover various areas of operations research ...

We investigate the impact of store capacity and extent of inter-product substitution in a retailer's assortment on the optimal timing and depth of price pro...

Since its introduction in 1969, the set partitioning problem has received much attention, and the structure of its feasible domain has been studied in detail...

The packet delay variation, commonly called delay jitter, is an important quality of service parameter in IP networks especially for real-time applications. ...

Jitter buffering is a key component in multimedia and real-time services. A jitter buffer is used at the receiver side to control packet rate and to compensa...

An analytical approach and a control strategy are proposed in Part I of this two-part paper for leveraging the aggregate demand of a population of Thermostat...

There are few systematic methodologies capable of predicting and leveraging the reserve capacity potential of large populations of Thermostatically-Controlle...

Decentralized stochastic control refers to the multi-stage optimization of a dynamical system by multiple controllers that have access to different informati...

In decentralized control systems with linear dynamics, quadratic cost, and Gaussian disturbance (also called decentralized LQG systems) linear control strate...

We consider an \(n\)-player game in coalitional form. We use the so-called \(\delta\) characteristic function to determine the strength of all possible c...

Oil industry plays currently a major role in the Canadian economy. In the future, further developments of the oil sector will be affected by the ability to t...

Including employee preferences in a shift-scheduling scheme raises the question of how to aggregate employee satisfactions in a sensible manner. To do so, we...

In this paper, we propose a differential game model with a coupled constraint to represent the possible effects of climate agreements between industrialized,...

In this paper, we extend the classical market-share attraction model to a multi-category setting to include umbrella-branding spillover. Our starting conject...

The Tube Challenge consists of visiting all stations of the London Underground in the least possible time. The competition started in 1959 and the current r...

The airline crew scheduling problem has received extensive attention, particularly in the last sixty years. This problem is frequently divided into crew pair...

Various constrained problem formulations for the optimization of an electro-thermal wing anti-icing system in both running-wet and evaporative regimes are pr...

In many large engineering design problems, it is not computationally feasible or realistic to store Jacobians or Hessians explicitly. Matrix-free implementat...