The United States is faced with allocating funds from a limited budget to the repair or replacement of railroad track segments on military bases. The problem can be modeled as a very large binary knapsack problem having a single budget constraint and multiple precedence constraints. A procedure...

A model developed to aid a state-level resource allocation process in the United States Department of Agriculture Special Supplement Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is presented. The model is formulated as a linear integer goal program, utilizing service levels for six...

A zero - one integer-programming formulation of the simultaneous optimization of the problems of land-use assignment and transportation-network design is presented. The problem is modeled through a set-partitioning approach and incorporates a multiple-criteria objective function, appropriate...