Operations Research/Management Science at Work

Recent Algorithmic Advances for Arc Routing Problems.- Sequencing and Scheduling for Non-Serial Permutation Flowshops.- Improved Multiple Ant Colonies System for Traveling Salesman Problems.- The Video Placement and Routing Problem.- A Markov Chain Tabu Search Approach to the Evolutionary Allocation Problem.- A Game of Corruption in a Stylized South-East Asian Timber Industry: A Genetic Algorithm Approach.- A General Framework for Constructive Meta-Heuristics.- The Immune Distributed Competitive Problem Solver using Major Histocompatibility Complex and Immune Network.- Search Algorithms for Nurse Scheduling with Genetic Algorithms.- Parallel Agent Passing Tabu Search Algorithm for Graph Partitioning Problem.- Heuristic Techniques for Scheduling Railway Track Maintenance.- Optimising a Horizontally Integrated Push/Pull Hybrid Production System in a Foundry.- Design of Adaptive Self Navigated Airship in Simulated Environment.- On the use of a Structural Modelling for Collaborative Learning Using the Concept Map.- Global Convergence Property of Error Back-Propagation Method for Recurrent Neural Networks.- A Material Planning Model for Mixed Model Assembly Lines.- A Fuzzy Programming Model for a Cross-Border Logistics Problem under an Uncertain Environment in Hong Kong.- The DSS Architecture Based on Non-Mathematical Problems Specification and Model/Solver Independence.- Hyper Sensitivity Analysis of Productivity Measurement Problems.- Reduced Game Property of Linear Values with Equal Treatment Property.- Alternative Transformations and Duality of Linear Fractional Programming.- Max-Min Optimization of the Multiple Knapsack Problem: An Implicit Enumeration Approach.- A Planning System for Precision Farming Based on an Autonomous Tractor.- Spot Price Forecasting Models for Risk Aversion in Victoria’s Electricity Market.- Refining Diffusion Models for State-Dependent Queues.- A System Dynamics Model for Helicopter Operations.