Journal: Computers and Operations Research

Found 2748 papers in total
An optimization model for the container pre-marshalling problem
2007,
In most container yards around the world, containers are stacked high to utilize yard...
School-bus routing for program scheduling
1990,
The program scheduling problem involves a set of student pick-ups and drop-offs for...
Parking buses in a depot using block patterns: A Benders decomposition approach for minimizing type mismatches
2007,
In a transit authority bus depot, buses of different types arrive in the evening to be...
A heuristic algorithm for master planning that satisfies multiple objectives
2007,
This study proposes a heuristic algorithm, called the multi-objective master planning...
Supplier selection and order lot sizing modeling: A review
2007,
With globalization and the emergence of the extended enterprise of interdependent...
Multicriteria decision model for outsourcing contracts selection based on utility function and ELECTRE method
2007,
An outsourcing contract problem has been analyzed. This is a typical problem when...
Outsourcing non-core assets and competences of a firm using analytic hierarchy process
2007,
This paper provides a structured framework for evaluating the firm assets and...
A logistic regression framework for information technology outsourcing lifecycle management
2007,
We present a methodology for managing outsourcing projects from the vendor's...
Vague knowledge search in the design for outsourcing using fuzzy decision tree
2007,
One of the most popular strategies in business today is global outsourcing. The...
A model for dynamic strategic vendor selection
2007,
Once the decision to outsource has been made, outsourcing vendors supplying the...
An evaluation of simulation to support contract costing
2007,
As global markets have become more customer oriented, rapid response rates are now...
Outsourcing or capacity expansions: Application of activity-based costing model on joint products decisions
2007,
Because of capacity constraints, the companies who produce joint products have to...
Sourcing with random yields and stochastic demand: A newsvendor approach
2007,
We studied a supplier selection problem, where a buyer, while facing random demand, is...
Using a hybrid multi-criteria decision aid method for information systems outsourcing
2007,
An ever-increasing trend in today's firms is to exploit outsourcing for those...
Organizational form, incentives and the management of information technology: Opening the black box of outsourcing
2007,
In this work, we attempt to show how operations researchers can effectively manage the...
Impact of anticipated competitive entry and cost experience on optimal strategic pricing of technological innovations
1990,
The optimal pricing policies for a new product over time are derived for a monopolist...
Two-way eyeballing heuristics in dynamic lot sizing with backlogging
1990,
A simple class of heuristic algorithms for discrete dynamic lot size problems with...
An economic order quantity model with quantity discounts for both purchasing price and freight cost
1990,
This paper deals with an economic order quantity model in which both the unit...
Enhanced second order algorithm applied to the capacitated minimum spanning tree problem
2007,
Given a centralized undirected graph with costs associated with its edges, the...
A GRASP algorithm to solve the unicost set covering problem
2007,
The set covering problem (SCP) is a well-known combinatorial optimization problem....
The discrete p-Maxian location problem
1990,
Given are a set of fixed points and another set of candidate points in some space, and...
Considering scheduling and preventive maintenance in the flowshop sequencing problem
2007,
The aim of this paper is to propose tools in order to implicitly consider different...
System capacity for a two-commodity multistate flow network with unreliable nodes and capacity weight
2007,
The system capacity of a single-commodity flow network is the maximum flow from the...
Two fast algorithms for all-pairs shortest paths
2007,
In a large, dense network, the computation of the ‘distances’, i.e., the...
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