The problem of on-line bin packing restricted to instances with only two item sizes (known in advance) has a well-known lower bound of 4/3 for its asymptotic competitive ratio. We...
This paper is devoted to basic scheduling problems in which the scheduling cost of a job is not a function of its completion time. Instead, the cost is derived from the integratio...
In this paper we briefly review the importance of LP (linear programming), and Dantzig's main contributions to OR (Operations Research), mathematics, and computer science. In...
The domination number, domn(A, n), of a heuristic A for the Asymmetric TSP is the maximum integer d = d(n) such that, for every instance I of the Asymmetric TSP on n cities, A pro...