The procurement of transportation services via large-scale combinatorial auctions involves a couple of complex decisions whose outcome highly influences the performance of the tender process. This paper examines the shipper's task of selecting a subset of the submitted bids which efficiently...

The use of goal programming in various real-world areas - including resource allocation,engineering, agriculture and other applications - has increased a lot in the past few years.The aim of this dissertation is to investigate goal programming approaches in determiningprices. Various aspects of...