Keyword: heuristics

Found 5460 papers in total
Relevant information, personality traits and anchoring effect
2014,
Although personality has been one of the most‐studied factors in management and...
How managers interpret scanning information
2012,
When scanning, managers acquire and collect information about their environment to...
Efficient frontiers in revenue management
2012,
We consider the problem of generating the efficient frontier (or Pareto set) between...
Modeling a hotel room assignment problem
2013,
This article studies hotel room assignment for reservations. We develop a heuristic...
A two‐level evolutionary algorithm for solving the facility location and design (1|1)‐centroid problem on the plane with variable demand
2013,
In this work, the problem of a company or chain (the leader) that considers the...
Separation and Extension of Cover Inequalities for Conic Quadratic Knapsack Constraints with Generalized Upper Bounds
2013,
Motivated by addressing probabilistic 0–1 programs we study the conic quadratic...
Combining vehicle routing and packing for optimal delivery schedules of water tanks
2013,
This article describes a decision‐support system that was developed in 2011 and...
Vehicle routing in a Spanish distribution company: Saving using a savings‐based heuristic
2013,
In this article we present a Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) faced by a large...
An extended rolling stock problem with empty trains timetabling through a heuristic approach
2013,
In this article, we address a variant of the rolling stock (RS) problem in dense...
Integrating two‐dimensional cutting stock and lot‐sizing problems
2014,
The two‐dimensional cutting stock problem (2DCSP) consists in the minimization...
Scheduling jobs with truncated exponential learning functions
2013,
In this paper we consider the single machine scheduling problem with truncated...
Algorithms for Placing Monitors in a Flow Network
2014,
In the Flow Edge‐Monitor Problem, we are given an undirected graph G =( V , E...
Some results of the worst‐case analysis for flow shop scheduling with a learning effect
2013,
This article considers flow shop scheduling problems with a learning effect. By the...
A new lot‐sizing heuristic for manufacturing systems with product recovery
2011,
We consider a deterministic model of the manufacturing system with product recovery....
Minimizing mean absolute deviation of completion time about a common due window subject to maximum tardiness for a single machine
2011,
This study deals with the problem of scheduling jobs on a single machine to minimize...
Exact and approximate methods for parallel multiple‐area spatial scheduling with release times
2013,
Spatial scheduling problems involve scheduling jobs that each require certain amounts...
An empirical evaluation of walk‐and‐round heuristics for mixed integer linear programs
2013,
Feasibility pump is a general purpose technique for finding feasible solutions of...
Reducing ergonomic risks by job rotation scheduling
2013,
The proverb ‘a change is as good as a rest’ expresses one of the main...
Optimising containership speed and fleet size under a carbon tax and an emission trading scheme
2013,
This paper addresses the problem of determining the ship speed, fleet size, and...
Transshipment of Inventories: Dual Allocations vs. Transshipment Prices
2010,
We study a newsvendor game with transshipments, in which n retailers face a stochastic...
The Emergence of Opinion Leaders in a Networked Online Community: A Dyadic Model with Time Dynamics and a Heuristic for Fast Estimation
2013,
We study the drivers of the emergence of opinion leaders in a networked community...
A vehicle routing problem with multi‐trips and time windows for circular items
2013,
This article presents a vehicle routing problem with time windows, multiple trips, a...
Continuous covering and cooperative covering problems with a general decay function on networks
2013,
A cooperative covering location problem anywhere on the networks is analysed. Each...
Minimizing maximum lateness of jobs in inventory constrained scheduling
2013,
This paper focuses on a machine scheduling problem having applications in truck...
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