Providing punctual, reliable and performant services to customers is one main goal of railway network operators. The railway scheduling problem is to determine, ahead of time (timetabling), a plan describing the timing of the operations in a railway network, or updating such plan during...

The method of balanced domain decomposition by constraints is an iterative algorithm for numerical solution of partial differential equations which exploits a non-overlapping partition of a domain. As an essential part of each step, restricted problems are solved on every subdomain and a certain...