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 – 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...