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This paper considers two problem classes that are important to researchers as well as practitioners, namely packing and project scheduling problems. First, the two problem categories are described. This includes a classification of packing problems as well as of project scheduling concepts....
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The multiple-choice nested knapsack problem (MCKP) is a generalization of the ordinary knapsack problem, where the set of items is partitioned into classes. The binary choice of selecting an item is replaced by taking exactly one item out of each class of items. Due to the fact that the MCKP is...
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Assignment type problems consist in optimally assigning or allocating a given set of "activities" to a given set of "resources". Optimisation problems of the assignment type have numerous applications in production planning and logistics. A popular approach to solve such problems or to compute...
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In general scheduling a sports league is a difficult combinatorial optimization problem. We study some variants of round robin tournaments and analyze the relationship with the planar three index assignment problem. The complexity of scheduling a round robin tournaments is settled by a reduction...
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Generally speaking in sports competition a number of teams play against each other over a period of time according to a certain scheme. The round robin scheme is very popular in many team sports like soccer and basketball. In this paper we study several basic variants of round robin tournaments....
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The generalized assignment problem (GAP) examines the maximum profit assignment of jobs to processors such that each job is assigned to precisely one processor subject to capacity restrictions on the processors. Due to the fact that the GAP is an NP-hard integer program dual prices are not...
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This paper proposes a new perspective for studying decentralization by considering it as the unbundling of public goods … local) by one single provider held accountable by the voters via elections. We define decentralization as the unbundled … elections. This novel perspective allows us to identify two new effects of decentralization. The first effect provides an …
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We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...
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different cases, we conclude that the political force of the decentralization-theorem (Oates) is a sole and inverse function of …
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This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we … decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that fiscal decentralization negatively impacts aid effectiveness, while measures of … political decentralization have no significant effect or even a positive one. This result is robust for grants and overall ODA …
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