We study a practice whereby a downstream firm makes to his supplier a premium-payment for a certain quantity of products. We show that the adoption of this practice can induce th...
Let Γ be a finite digraph and let G be a subgroup of the automorphism group of Γ. A directed cycle C of Γ is called G-consistent whenever there is an element of G whose restri...
Traditional information retrieval systems aim at satisfying most users for most of their searches, leaving aside the context in which the search takes place. We propose to model tw...
Nathalie Hernandez, Josiane Mothe, Claude Chrismen...
On-line chain partitioning problem of on-line posets has been open for the past 20 years. The best known on-line algorithm uses 5w −1 4 chains to cover poset of width w. Felsner ...
We consider a single multi-server memoryless service station. Servers have heterogeneous service rates. Arrivals are routed to one of the servers, and the routing decisions are no...