Problem definition: This paper describes the real-time participatory modeling work that our team of academics, public health officials, and clinical decision-makers has been undertaking to support the regional efforts to tackle COVID-19 in the East of England. Methodology: Since March 2020, we...

The selection of projects from a set of possible alternatives is a key decision in any organization. However, all entities that allocate resource budgets across several projects and initiatives face the same fundamental problem: to select the most valuable projects given a finite budget. The...

Assigning tasks to work stations is an essential problem which needs to be addressed in an assembly line design. The most basic model is called simple assembly line balancing problem type 1 (SALBP-1). We provide a survey on 12 heuristics and 9 lower bounds for this model and test them on a...