This paper describes a Tabu Search (TS) heuristic for a Ship Routing and Scheduling Problem (SRSP). The method was …

completed while following a given activity's network order. The problem concerns scheduling a newly inserted project portfolio … constraints? The considered problems regard finding a computationally effective approach aimed at simultaneous routing and … allocation as well as batching and scheduling of a newly ordered project portfolio subject to constraints imposed by a multi …

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel family of games related to congested networks. Traffic routing has …

This paper analyzes a North-South trade model with costly offshoring and equilibrium unemployment due to union wage … setting. Reductions in the amount of resources required in the offshoring process usually decrease employment, though the … opposite can happen at a low initial level of offshoring activity. If additional offshoring leads to a fall in the scale of …

A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger …

-house offshoring to China is a major determinant of Dutch import growth from China. Dutch firms tend to offshore production in …

.e., managers, professionals and experts), especially when offshoring involves closer connections to other developed countries. …