In this paper, we address the question of how the assessment of costs influences decisions in a newsvendor setting. We expect that different cost types lead to different behavior. In our investigation, we consider a newsvendor problem with opportunity costs and a newsvendor problem with penalty...

This paper surveys a large variety of mathematical models and up-to-date solution techniques developed for solving a general flight gate scheduling problem that deals with assigning different aircraft activities (arrival, departure and intermediate parking) to distinct aircraft stands or gates....

Generating a sports league schedule is a challenging task due to the variety of different requirements which have to be addressed. This has led to a multitude of alternative approaches. Most of them rely on graph-theoretical concepts and the solution of the overall problem is based on the...