Economic analysis of competition regulation is most developed in the domain of horizontal mergers, and modern agency guidelines reflect a substantial consensus on the appropriate template for merger assessment. Nevertheless, official protocols are understood to rest on a problematic market...

Manpower still is one of the most expansive resources, in spite of increasing automation. While employee scheduling and rostering has been the topic of extensive research over the past decades, usually it is assumed that the demand for staff is either given or can be obtained without difficulty....

Effectiveness in the use of the work force is often the crucial advantage in a company's long-term success over its competitors, especially in technology driven and highly competitive branches as the one considered in this article. While employee scheduling and rostering has been the topic of...

Effectiveness in the use of the work force is often the crucial advantage in a company's long-term success over its competitors, especially in technology driven and highly competitive branches as the one considered in this article. While employee scheduling and rostering has been the topic of...

Manpower still is one of the most expansive resources, in spite of increasing automation. While employee scheduling and rostering has been the topic of extensive research over the past decades, usually it is assumed that the demand for staff is either given or can be obtained without difficulty....

Over the years numerous branch-and-bound procedures for solving the resource-constrained project scheduling problem have been developed. Enumerating delaying alternatives, extension alternatives, feasible posets, feasible sequences or feasible subsets, they all aim at finding as fast as possible...