Adaptive Monte Carlo methods are specialized Monte Carlo simulation techniques where the methods are adaptively tuned as the simulation progresses. The primary focus of such techn...
We consider the problem of minimizing staffing costs in an inbound call center, while maintaining an acceptable level of service in multiple time periods. The problem is complicat...
LABATCH.2 is a collection of computer programs available in C, FORTRAN, and SIMSCRIPT II.5 by anonymous ftp, at http://www.or.unc.edu/gfish/labatch.2.html. It performs statistical...
In this paper, we combine two approaches to handling uncertainty: we use techniques for finding optimal solutions in the expected sense to solve combinatorial optimization proble...
Michael Benisch, Amy R. Greenwald, Victor Narodits...
We describe the problem of scheduling astronomy observations for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, an airborne telescope. The problem requires maximizing the nu...