A general problem in health-care consists in allocating some scarce medical resource, such as operating rooms or medical staff, to medical specialties in order to keep the queue of patients as short as possible. A major difficulty stems from the fact that such an allocation must be established...

This paper addresses the constrained-based routing problem in DiffServaware MPLS networks. We consider a dynamic context in which new requests appear over time, asking for reconfigurations of the previous allocation. In the classical approach, a multi-phase heuristic procedure is adopted: the...

The current financial crisis motivates the study of correlated defaults in financial systems. In this paper we focus on such a model which is based on Markov random fields. This is a probabilistic model where uncertainty in default probabilities incorporates expert's opinions on the default risk...

Wireless networks have shown a rapid growth over the past two decades and now play an increasingly prominent role in different telecommunication systems. Consequently, scarce resources such as the radio spectrum and the physical sites that accommodate transmitters have become extremely congested...

Wireless networks have shown a rapid growth over the past two decades and now play a key role in new generation telecommunications networks. The physical medium of wireless networks is the radio spectrum, a scarce resource which is becoming extremely congested and needs to be allocated in more...

Transmitters and receivers are the basic elements of wireless networks and are characterized by a number of radio-electrical parameters. The generic planning problem consists in establishing suitable values for these parameters so as to optimize some network performance indicator. The version...