Journal: Annals of Operations Research

Found 3339 papers in total
Adaptive memory programming for matrix bandwidth minimization
2011,
In this paper we explore the influence of adaptive memory in the performance of...
Integrated exact, hybrid and metaheuristic learning methods for confidentiality protection
2011,
A vital task facing government agencies and commercial organizations that report data...
Tabu search approaches for solving the two‐group classification problem
2011,
The two‐group classification problem consists in constructing a classifier that...
Hybrid scatter tabu search for unconstrained global optimization
2011,
The problem of finding a global optimum of an unconstrained multimodal function has...
The case for strategic oscillation
2011,
We study a ‘hard’ optimization problem for metaheuristic search, where a...
Adaptive memory programming: local search parallel algorithms for phylogenetic tree construction
2011,
One of the most important aspect of molecular and computational biology is the...
Facility location for large-scale emergencies
2010,
In the p -center problem, it is assumed that the facility located at a node responds...
A linearization approach to solve the natural gas cash-out bilevel problem
2010,
In this article, we discuss a particular imbalance cash-out problem arising in the...
The dynamics of performance space of Major League Baseball pitchers 1871‐2006
2010,
A central decision-maker, the principal, employs performance evaluation criteria...
A branch and bound algorithm for scheduling jobs with controllable processing times on a single machine to meet due dates
2010,
In most deterministic scheduling problems, job-processing times are regarded as...
Kusuoka representation of higher order dual risk measures
2010,
We derive representations of higher order dual measures of risk in ℒ p spaces as...
A new mixed integer linear model for a rich vehicle routing problem with docking constraints
2010,
In this paper we address a rich vehicle routing problem that arises in real-life...
A memetic algorithm based on a NSGAII scheme for the flexible job-shop scheduling problem
2010,
The Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling Problem is concerned with the determination of a...
Infinite split scheduling: a new lower bound of total weighted completion time on parallel machines with job release dates and unavailability periods
2010,
This paper addresses an identical parallel machine scheduling problem with job release...
Influential observations in frontier models, a robust non-oriented approach to the water sector
2010,
This paper suggests an outlier detection procedure which applies a nonparametric model...
Solving the Rectangular assignment problem and applications
2010,
The rectangular assignment problem is a generalization of the linear assignment...
An algorithm for sequential tail value at risk for path-independent payoffs in a binomial tree
2010,
We present an algorithm that determines Sequential Tail Value at Risk (STVaR) for...
A method for solving the general parametric linear complementarity problem
2010,
This paper presents a solution method for the general (mixed integer) parametric...
Adjustment of the moments of the project completion times when activity times are exponentially distributed
2010,
The problem of determining the moment of the project completion time (MPCT) with...
Proposal of a new distribution in PERT methodology
2010,
The aim of this paper is to present the generalized biparabolic distribution (GBP) as...
Optimal linear estimator of origin-destination flows with redundant data
2010,
Suppose given a network endowed with a multiflow. We want to estimate some quantities...
Near-optimal solution to an employee assignment problem with seniority
2010,
I consider the problem of weekly assignment of shifts to operators. The shifts are to...
Alternate risk measures for emergency medical service system design
2010,
The stochastic nature of emergency service requests and the unavailability of...
The subcoalition-perfect core of cooperative games
2010,
The core is a set-valued solution concept for cooperative games. In situations where...
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