Motivation for Research: Large combinatorial optimization problems involve an exponentially growing decision space, where finding a good solution often becomes extremely difficult using traditional ...

With fluctuating sales, a manufacturer must have fluctuating production, or fluctuating inventory, or both. Penalties are associated with either type of fluctuation. Several papers place this problem ...

Abstract: Many authors have documented the minimal use of optimization in practical day-to-day multipurpose reservoir operations. The RiverWare decision support system is a flexible general river ...