In many industrial experiments, complete randomization of the runs is impossible as, often, they involve factors whose levels are hard or costly to change. In such cases, the split-plot design is a cost-efficient alternative that reduces the number of independent settings of the hard-to-change...

In this paper, the multiple travelling salesperson problem with hotel selection (m-TSPHS) is presented. This combinatorial optimisation problem is a generalisation of both the travelling salesperson problem with hotel selection (TSPHS) and the multiple travelling salesperson problem (m-TSP). As...

Stated choice experiments are conducted to identify the attributes that drive people's preferences when choosing between competing options of products or services. They are widely used in transportation in order to support the decision making of companies and governmental authorities. A large...

Mixture experiments usually involve various constraints on the proportions of the ingredients of the mixture under study. In this paper, inspired by the fact that the available stock of certain ingredients is often limited, we focus on a new type of constraint, which we refer to as an ingredient...

In mixture experiments, the factors under study are proportions of the ingredients of a mixture. The special nature of the factors in a mixture experiment necessitates specific types of regression models, and specific types of experimental designs. Although mixture experiments usually are...

In industrial experiments, there are often restrictions in randomization caused by equipment and resource constraints, as well as budget and time restrictions. Next to the split-plot and the split-split-plot design, the staggered-level design is an interesting design option for experiments...