The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 61, No. 7 (July 2010), pp. 1168-1180 (13 pages) In this paper, we propose an approach based on mathematical programming and local search to cope ...

Investors have recently been flocking to “safe-haven” investments like U.S. treasury bonds, gold and other commodities. These assets tend to stay valuable in uncertain times. At times of geopolitical ...

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 55, No. 7, Part Special Issue: Local Search (Jul., 2004), pp. 694-704 (11 pages) The multi-index assignment problem (MIAP) with decomposable costs ...

Welcome to my new blog, called On Second Thought. I have borrowed both the name and the concept for this blog from my new book, the full title of which is On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's ...

Clinicians must make diagnostic treatment decisions using a large body of probabilistic information and process this information under the pressure of time and workload. The pressure of this task is ...

Consider the following scenario: you are watching a movie in your living room. One of the supporting characters is played by someone who looks familiar, but you can’t quite put your finger on where ...