Planning the allocation of scarce resources to competing activities over multiple time periods is one of the most important problems facing decision makers in modern organizations. Much of the previous research in this area has concentrated on the use of linear programming procedures and has...

This paper describes a branch and bound algorithm for the global minimization of a quadratic objective function subject to quadratic constraints over a bounded interval. No assumptions are made regarding the convexity of either the objective or the constraints. The algorithm consists of three...

An important problem confronting decision makers in modern organizations is the determination of an optimal product-mix (or service-mix) in situations where learning effects are present. Learning has been observed to exist in a variety of production and service situations in which the amount of...