The 2008–10 financial crisis and the global recession it created is a complex phenomenon that warrants detailed examination. The various essays in this book utilise several alternative paradigms to provide a plausible explanation and a credible cure. Great detail is given to this...

In the container relocation problem (CRP) n items are given that belong to G different itemgroups (g = 1,…,G). The items are piled up in up to S stacks with a maximum stack height H.A move can either shift one item from the top of a stack to the top of another one (relocation)or pick an item...