A novel sphere packing problem is introduced. A maximum number of spheres of different radii should be placed such that the spheres do not overlap and their centers fulfill a quasi-containment condition. The latter allows the spheres to lie partially outside the given cuboidal container....

Open shop scheduling problems (OSSP) are highly significant in engineering and industry, involving critical scheduling challenges. The job type determines the duration required for material transfer between machines and remains unaffected by distance, eliminating any waiting time for transfers....

Chapter 1 Nonlinear Programming -- Chapter 2 Perron-Frobenius Theorem -- Chapter 3 Dominant Diagonal Matrix and Quadratic Form -- Chapter 4 Recent Issue on Eigenvalue Problem -- Appendix Lists of Mathematical Theorems and Definitions.

The presented paper considers the pricing and lot-sizing decisions for a manufacturer who produces and sells a single product in different selling channels i.e physical stock, website, mobile, etc. The objective is to find the production plan and prices of each channel to maximize the total...

We present a novel variational inequality model (VIM) to capture the complex real decision-making process in multi-tiered supply chain networks (MSCN) without strictly limiting the features of related functions. The VIM is formulated with the equilibrium conditions on links as the optimization...

We consider the solution of a recurrent sub–problem within both constrained and unconstrained Nonlinear Programming: namely the minimization of a quadratic function subject to linear constraints. This problem appears in a number of LBM frameworks, and to some extent it reveals a close analogy...

Solving non-linear parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) in high dimension becomes an interest for its curse of dimensionality problem. Recently, a deep learning method associated with a backward stochastic differential equation (deep-BSDE) to solve the PDEs draws intensive discussions...

Portfolio optimization is an activity for balancing return and risk. In this paper, we used mean-variance (M-V) portfolio models with buy-in threshold and cardinality constraints. This model can be formulated as a mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem. To solve this constrained...