Abstract. Approximate dynamic programming offers a new modeling and algorithmic strategy for complex problems such as rail operations. Problems in rail operations are often modeled...
Many oil wells in Brazilian onshore fields rely on artificial lift methods. Maintenance services such as cleaning, reinstatement, stimulation and others are essential to these wel...
Dario J. Aloise, Daniel Aloise, Caroline T. M. Roc...
– A problem of searching with multiple searchers and scouts is presented. Unlike most search problems that terminate as soon as the target is found, successful detections by scou...
We consider the robust surgery loading problem for a hospital's operating theatre department, which concerns assigning surgeries and sufficient planned slack to operating roo...
Erwin W. Hans, Gerhard Wullink, Mark van Houdenhov...
Abstract—We first present a problem called precedence constrained two traveling salesman (PC2TSP). We propose a nearoptimal heuristic to PC2TSP to generate tours by clustering p...