As the energy market has grown in importance in recent decades, researchers have paid increasing attention to swing option contracts. Early studies evaluated the swing contract as if it were a financial derivative contract, by ignoring its storage constraints. Aided by recent advances in...

In this paper, the IT-speed dating of a German university is considered, where students have talks with different companies in order to find a suitable internship. The goal is to create a good and fair matching of students and companies for these talks, based on student preferences, and to...

A problem of optimal mid-term or long-term planning of inspection and repair of freight containers in multiple facilities is introduced and investigated. The containers are of different types and quality levels, which define their repair costs and workforce requirements. The objective function...