In all existing intersection theorems conditions are given under which acertain subset of acollection of sets has a non-empty intersection. In this paper conditions are formulated under which the intersection is a continuum of points satisfying some interesting topological properties. In this...

I start this contribution with an overview of my personal involvement—as an Operations Research consultant—in several engineering case-studies that may raise ethical questions; these case studies employ simulation models. Next, I present an overview of the recent literature on ethical issues...

A newversion of the Power-Series Algorithm is developed to compute the steady-state distribution of a rich class of Markovian queueing networks. The arrival process is a Multi-queue Markovian Arrival Process, which is a multi-queue generalization of the BMAP. It includes Poisson, fork and...

In Rogoff (1985) it is shown that society can make itself better off by appointing a central banker who places an additional weight on in ation rate stabilization relative to employment stabilization. Using an envelope theorem, Rogoff shows that this additional weight must be positive and...

Given an arbitrary polytope P in the n-dimensional Euclidean space R n , the question is to determine whether P contains an integral point or not. We propose a simplicial algorithm to answer this question based on a specifc integer labeling rule and a specific triangulation of R n . Starting...

The problem of finding a maximin Latin hypercube design in two dimensions can be described as positioning n non-attacking rooks on an n x n chessboard such that the minimal distance between pairs of rooks is maximized.Maximin Latin hypercube designs are important for the approximation and...