Extending the Horizons: Advances in Computing, Optimization, and Decision Technologies

Plenary Article -- Improving Hurricane Prediction Through Innovative Global Modeling -- Networks and Graphs -- A Branch-And-Price Approach for Graph Multi-Coloring -- A Genetic Algorithm for Solving the Euclidean Non-Uniform Steiner Tree Problem -- Optimization -- Cardinality and the Simplex Tableau for the Set Partitioning Problem -- An Efficient Enumeration Algorithm for the Two-Sample Randomization Distribution -- An Adaptive Algorithm for the Optimal Sample Size in the Non-Stationary Data-Driven Newsvendor Problem -- A Neighborhood Search Technique for the Freeze Tag Problem -- Vehicle Routing and the Traveling Salesman Problem -- The Colorful Traveling Salesman Problem -- Solving the Multi-Depot Location-Routing Problem with Lagrangian Relaxation -- Heuristic Approaches for a TSP Variant: The Automatic Meter Reading Shortest Tour Problem -- The Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem: A New Genetic Algorithm Approach -- Simulation -- Sensitivity Analysis in Simulation of Stochastic Activity Networks: A Computational Study -- Combined Discrete-Continuous Simulation Modeling of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle -- Decision Technologies -- Ex-Post Internet Charging: An Effective Bandwidth Model -- Knowledge Representation for Military Mobility Decision-Making by Humans and Intelligent Software.