An exchangeable bond is a debt that is convertible into shares of a firm's equity other than the bond's issuer. We evaluate an exchangeable bond within a two...

The job shop scheduling literature has been dominated by a focus on regular objective functions -in particular the makespan- in its half a century long his...

Unlike delta-hedging or similar methods based on Greeks, global hedging is an approach optimizing some terminal criterion that depends on the difference be...

This paper deals with R&D investment and technology licensing in a supply chain formed of an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and a contract manufactu...

A performance-based mechanism as a support for an environmental protection law is proposed to promote product recovery and to subside the pollution caused by...

In this paper, we evaluate the competitiveness of electric commercial vehicle (ECV) in medium-duty mid-haul logistics for a specific case study. This is done...

Electric commercial vehicles (ECVs) are gaining importance as they are seen to provide a sustainable mean of transportation. However, practitioners still see...

This paper reviews the literature on vehicle routing problems and location-routing problems with intermediate stops. Besides providing concise paper excerpts...

Most structural models for valuing corporate securities assume a geometric-Brownian motion to describe the firm's assets value. However, this does not reflec...

The introduction of the environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) into public environmental protection schemes and corporate performance standards ha...

Many biological datasets such as microarrays, metabolomics, and proteomics involve observations (or subjects) in rows, and attributes (or genes, metabolites,...

This paper proposes a framework to determine day-ahead capacity profiles that account for the stochastic demand generated by user behavior in smart buildings...

Tropical algebra is the algebra constructed over the tropical semifield \(R_{max}= (R\cup \{-\infty\},\max, +)\). We show here that every \(m\)-dimensi...

Visualization of high-dimensional data is counter-intuitive using conventional graphs. Parallel coordinates is proposed, as an alternative, to explore multiv...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a fast heuristic called FastCARP for the solution of very large-scale capacitated arc routing problems, with or witho...

Management and storage of waste and tailings are critical concerns in open pit mining, especially when the available space is limited but also to reduce the ...

Long-term open pit mine scheduling is generally assessed with a mixed integer programming (MIP) formulation which can be solved with different operations res...

Simple, intuitive, and scalable to large problems, \(k\)-means clustering is perhaps the most frequently-used technique for unsupervised learning. However...

With the increasing penetration of renewable energy sources in the electrical power grid, demand response via thermostatic appliances such as electric wate...

The airline crew scheduling problem, because of its size and complexity, is usually solved in two phases: the crew pairing problem and the crew assignment pr...