In this research we consider the problemof scheduling rounds of a non-professional table-tennisleague. We formalize the problem in terms of atimetabling optimization problem. Then we solve thishighly constrained problem with a permutation based GeneticAlgorithm for which feasibility preserving...

Purpose – The coping of demand oscillation is an important challenge in dynamic transport planning. A reliable request fulfillment must be provided even if the number of incoming requests temporarily climbs over the expected demand and resource scarceness appears. The aim of this paper is to...

Purpose – Freight carriers operating in a spot-market environment are faced with uncertain future capacity demand, actual revenues, and properties of freight items. They require information about the expected future consumption of limited capacity to derive suitable request acceptance...