Sales force management decisions belong to the major issues considered in marketing research. Among others, the alignment of sales territories has been one of the main field of work for years. Recent results have reported a strong impact of the alignment of sales territories on profit, and,...

In facility layout problems, a major concern is the optimal design or remodeling of the facilities of an organization. The decision maker's objective is to arrange the facility in an optimal way, so that the interaction among functions (i.e. machines, inventories, persons) and places (i.e....

This paper addresses the robust spanning tree problem with interval data, i.e. the case of classical minimum spanning tree problem when edge weights are not fixed but take their values from some intervals associated with edges. The problem consists in finding a spanning tree that minimizes...

This paper addresses the robust shortest path problem with interval data, i.e. the case of classical shortest path problem with given source and sink when arc weights are not fixed but take their values from some intervals associated with arcs. The problem consists in finding a shortest path...

In 1997 two papers_new applying the metaheuristics Tabu Search (TS) and Heuristic Concentration (HC) tothe p-median problem were published in consecutive volumes of the European Journal of OperationalResearch. Here we apply the method of HC some of the data sets which were used for...

This contribution acquaints the reader with a model for multi-level single-machine proportional lot sizing and scheduling problems (PLSPs) that appear in the scope of short-term production planning. It is one of the first papers that deals with dynamic capacitated multi-level lot sizing and...

Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) und Machine Learning (ML) gelten gegenwärtig als probate Mittel, um betriebswirtschaftliche Entscheidungen durch mathematische Modelle zu optimieren. Allerdings werden die Technologien häufig in Form von "Black Box"-Ansätze mit entsprechenden Risiken realisiert....