One of the main objectives for a rail company is to minimize the size of rail freight car fleet in order to reduce operating costs. The problem of rail freight car fleet compositio...
Stochastic optimization problems provide a means to model uncertainty in the input data where the uncertainty is modeled by a probability distribution over the possible realizatio...
Since the electricity bill of a data center constitutes a significant portion of its overall operational costs, reducing this has become important. We investigate cost reduction o...
Rahul Urgaonkar, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Michael J. Neel...
A stochastic global optimization approach is presented for transistor sizing in CMOS VLSI circuits. This is a direct search strategy for the best design among feasible ones, with ...
We consider optimal policies for reentrant queues in which customers may be served several times at the same station. We show that for tandem reentrant queues the lastbuffer-fir...