Single-source capacitated facility location problems are well studied in the operations research literature, yet classic problems often lack practicability by disregarding the customers’ perspective: An authority that assigns customers to open facilities deprives customers from choosing...

Background: This paper addresses a new class of scheduling problems in the context of machines subject to (unrecoverable) interruptions; i.e., when a machine fails, the current and subsequently scheduled work on that machine is lost. Each job has a certain processing time and a reward that is...

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC, formerly, Mobile Edge Computing) offers users of Mobile Devices (MDs) such as smartphones advantages in computational task completion times by offloading to superior but geographically close computing resources. There is a need to make these services more...