This paper reports on an application of computer technology to a significant and costly school administration problem: the transportation of students between home and school. The problem, as it is generally thought of, has been complicated by the consideration of attempting racial balance via...

A previously presented charge scheme for public investments is derived here from a set of axioms. It is argued that these axioms embody a definition of equity in allocating the costs of a public facility and could serve as a constitution which would be agreed on by users of a public facility....

This paper presents the theoretical foundations for a new approach to integer programming. On the basis of the theoretical arguments, various specific computational procedures are developed which could be used to solve the integer programming problem. However, definitive computational results...