Country: Canada

Found 531 papers in total
Fast local searches for the vehicle routing problem with time windows
2002,
The purpose of this paper is to present new deterministic local searches for solving...
A route-directed hybrid genetic approach for the vehicle routing problem with time windows
2003,
A route-directed hybrid genetic approach to address the Vehicle Routing Problem with...
Development of a catch allocation tool design for production planning at JS McMillan Fisheries
2003,
JS McMillan Fisheries Ltd. (JSM) is a Vancouver-based commercial fishing, production...
Trunk reservation analysis of TELUs' Edmonton telecommunication network
2003,
Following deregulation of the Canadian telecommunications industry in the early 1990s,...
Stochastic optimization of a hydroelectric reservoir using piecewise polynomial approximations
2003,
We propose a method for optimizing a single hydro-electric reservoir using a piecewise...
Modeling by elaboration: An application to visual process simulation
2002,
Attempts to expand the role of OR/MS into the broader community have been limited in...
Supporting wood supply chain decisions with simulation for a mill in northwestern British Columbia (Canada)
2003,
Seasonal restrictions on harvesting and transportation operations have traditionally...
Rostering for a restaurant
2003,
We present a heuristic algorithm for preparing weekly employee schedules, The...
A simulation-enabled decision support system for allocating check-in agents
2003,
A decision support system (DSS) is developed from a descriptive resource simulation of...
Multicriteria analysis of the financial feasibility of transport infrastructure projects in Hungary
2003,
This paper provides the details on and discusses the concepts of a software package...
Frequency optimization of a moderately congested public transit system
2003,
This paper addresses the problem of the frequency optimization of transit lines in a...
Vehicle park management through the goal programming model
2003,
The “Ministere des transports du Quebec” has a fleet of equipment to...
Introduction to the modeling of preferences
2002,
This paper offers an overview of the literature on preference modelling. Our departure...
Policies for multi-echelon supply: decomposable requirements planning systems with probabilistic time-varying demands
2003,
This paper develops rolling planning horizon policies to manage material flows in...
Tabu search design for difficult forest management optimization problems
2003,
A series of tabu search (TS) methods for solving the stand harvesting and road access...
Solving the area-restricted harvest-scheduling model using the branch and bound algorithm
2003,
There are two broad approaches to the discrete optimization problem of harvest...
Strategic reserve design in the central coast of British Columbia: integrating ecological and industrial goals
2003,
Few conservation reserves worldwide have been created in ways that are likely to...
An effective Lagrangian heuristic for the generalized assignment problem
2001,
An algorithm is presented for generating and improving feasible assignments for the...
Marginal and parametric analysis of the central optimal solution
2001,
In this paper, the sensitivity analysis of the parameterized central path is...
The optimal service policies in an M/G/1 queueing system with multiple vacation types
2001,
In this paper, a single server queueing system with Poisson arrivals and multiple...
Using the analytic hierarchy process for quantifying and classifying objects with multiple attributes
2002,
A quantitative technique is devised for grouping objects with multiple attributes by...
Tales from a nonstandard career in operations research
2001,
This is a personal account of an unusual career in operations research. The author is...
Improving the emergency service delivery in St. Albert
2001,
This paper summarizes two studies conducted to improve the emergency service delivery...
A Lagrangian relaxation algorithm for a production planning problem where products have alternate routings
2001,
A manufacturer of specialty steels produces to customer order. The economy is booming...
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