The design of the distribution system is a Strategie issue for almost every Company. The Problem of locating facilities and allocating customers Covers the core topics of distribution system design. Model formulations and Solution algorithms which address the issue vary widely in terms of...

Vorwörter -- Kapitel 1: Einführung -- Kapitel 2: Lineare Optimierung -- Kapitel 3: Graphentheorie -- Kapitel 4: Lineare Optimierungsprobleme mit spezieller Struktur -- Kapitel 5: Netzplantechnik und Projektmanagement -- Kapitel 6: Ganzzahlige und kombinatorische Optimierung -- Kapitel 7:...

Vorwort -- Symbol- Begriff- und Abkürzungsverzeichnis -- Kap. 1: Einführung - Modellbildung -- Kap. 2: Lineare Optimierung -- Kap. 3: Graphentheorie -- Kap. 4: LP mit spezieller Struktur -- Kap. 5: Netzplantechnik -- Kap. 6: Ganzzahlige und kombinatorische Optimierung -- Kap. 7: Dynamische...

Single round robin tournaments are a well known class of sports leagues schedules. We consider leagues with a set T of n teams where n is even. Costs are associated to each possible match. The goal is to find the minimum cost tournament among those having the minimum number of breaks. We pick up...

Combinatorial auctions permitting bids on bundles of items have been developed to remedy the exposure problem associated with single-item auctions. Given winning bundle prices a set of item prices is called market clearing or equilibrium if all the winning bids are greater than or equal and if...

In combinatorial auctions the pricing problem is of main concern since it is the means by which the auctioneer signals the result of the auction to the participants. In order for the auction to be regarded as fair among the various participants the price signals should be such that a participant...

The multiple-choice nested knapsack problem (MCKP) is a generalization of the ordinary knapsack problem, where the set of items is partitioned into classes. The binary choice of selecting an item is replaced by taking exactly one item out of each class of items. Due to the fact that the MCKP is...