This paper presents a multi-objective location-districting optimization model for sustainable collection of municipal solid waste, motivated by strategic waste management decisions in Iran. The model aims to design an ...

Rating systems play an important part in professional sports, for example, as a source of entertainment for fans, by influencing decisions regarding tournament seedings, by acting as qualification criteria, or as decision ...

Ordinal regression models are frequently used in academic literature to model outcomes of soccer matches, and seem to be preferred over nominal models. One reason is that, obviously, there is a natural hierarchy of outcomes, ...

Emergency preparedness is crucial for oil and gas operators. While accidents in this industry are commonly connected to oil spill disasters, helicopter accidents are, in terms of incidence rates, a more grave concern in ...

Maintenance costs related to offshore wind farms are severely limiting their potential for being profitable. This paper proposes a new mathematical model that considers how maintenance tasks should be scheduled and performed ...

General solvers exist for several types of optimisation problems, with the commercially available solvers for mixed integer programming (MIP) being a prime example. Although binary integer programming (BIP) can be used to ...

Proximity search is an iterative method to solve complex mathematical programming problems. At each iteration, the objective function of the problem at hand is replaced by the Hamming distance function to a given solution, ...