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作者：KREINER, HW
摘要：In 1953 Operations Research (then called the Journal of the Operations Research Society of America) published a paper that represented a model of practical operations research in the civilian field of agriculture. A recent reexamination, however, showed it to have gaps in exposition and discrepancies in reported times. Research to resolve these difficulties revealed that the original paper omitted some earlier steps in the work, and concentrated on the end-product of the research. This involve...
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作者：HILLSMAN, EL; ALVIC, DR; BENNETT, JB
作者单位：University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville
摘要：Discussion of alternative proposals to control emission precursors of acid precipitation focused on their effects on the electric power and coal industries. The Bureau of Mines was concerned about possible indirect effects on electricity-intensive mineral processing facilities, and sponsored research to help it estimate these effects. The research developed a modeling system to estimate compliance strategies and associated changes in electricity costs under different legislation, and dissemina...
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作者：WEINTRAUB, A; JONES, G; MAGENDZO, A; MEACHAM, M; KIRBY, M
作者单位：United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); United States Forest Service; United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); United States Forest Service
摘要：Implementing forest plans involves decisions regarding the geographic arrangement and timing of management activities, and the design of efficient transportation networks to provide access for these activities. These planning problems have been modeled successfully as mixed integer linear programs. However, these models are difficult to solve with commercial software due to their relatively large number of binary variables. We present a heuristic approach that has solved these problems well. T...
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作者：KOULAMAS, C
摘要：We provide a unified framework for the total tardiness problem by surveying the related literature in the single-machine, parallel machine, flowshop and jobshop settings. We focus on critically evaluating the heuristic algorithms; we also propose new heuristics for both the single-machine and the parallel-machine tardiness problems. Finally, we identify the areas where further research is needed and we give directions for future research.
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作者：GENDRON, B; CRAINIC, TG
作者单位：Universite de Montreal
摘要：We present a detailed and up-to-date survey of the literature on parallel branch-and-bound algorithms. We synthesize previous work in this area and propose a new classification of parallel branch-and-bound algorithms. This classification is used to analyze the methods proposed in the literature. To facilitate our analysis, we give a new characterization of branch-and-bound algorithms, which consists of isolating the performed operations without specifying any particular order for their executi...
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作者：FEDERGRUEN, A; TZUR, M
作者单位：Tel Aviv University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We address the Joint Replenishment Problem (JRP) where, in the presence of joint setup costs, dynamic lot sizing schedules need to be determined for m items over a planning horizon of N periods, with general time-varying cost and demand parameters. We develop a new, so-called, partitioning heuristic for this problem, which partitions the complete horizon of N periods into several relatively small intervals, specifies an associated joint replenishment problem for each of these, and solves them ...
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作者：BENKHEROUF, L; GLAZEBROOK, KD; OWEN, RW
作者单位：Newcastle University - UK
摘要：Conventional analyses of stochastic resource allocation problems based on Gittins' indices frequently yield policies which involve an unacceptable amount of switching of the resource from one option to another. This paper discusses a variety of methodologies aimed at solving this problem. They principally involve the development and analysis of stochastic resource allocation models incorporating switching costs together with a consideration of a new class of single-visit policies for which eac...
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作者：LEE, CC
摘要：Two standard results of previous bargaining models state that delay is generally not expected to occur under complete information, and bargaining outcome depends crucially on the bargainers' intrinsic characteristics that determine their reservation prices, and, in general, bargainers with ''better'' reservation prices tend to get better outcomes. This paper considers a bilateral bargaining problem with complete information in which one of the bargainers, the buyer, is allowed to search while ...
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作者：TROUTT, MD
摘要：In the Method of Abstract Forces for the direction finding (or tradeoff cut) subproblems of interactive multicriterion optimization, it is necessary to scale criterion gradients. Previously, an ad hoc, analyst assisted, but nevertheless effective scaling method was used. This paper introduces a concept of abstract mass. It is shown that the previous ad hoc scaling method may be considered an approximation to the present direction-specific approach. Also, the abstract mass approach provides a s...
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作者：FRIESZ, TL; BERNSTEIN, D; MEHTA, NJ; TOBIN, RL; GANJALIZADEH, S
作者单位：Princeton University
摘要：In this paper we present tatonnement models for calculating static Wardropian user equilibria on congested networks with fully general demand and cost structures. We present both a qualitative analysis of stability and numerical studies which show that such an approach provides a reliable means for determining static user equilibria. We also describe circumstances for which these models depict day-to-day adjustments from one realizable disequilibrium state to another and how these adjustment p...
