A public transportation network serves in adequate way a population if it evolves in time following the existent social reality. Changes made in order to improve service must be analyzed and evaluated. The introduction of modern technology to validate the fare card allowed a quick access to...

This paper develops methods to compute performance measures in a specific type of loss system with multiple classes of customers sharing the same processor. Such systems arise in the modeling of a call center, where the performance measures of interest are blocking the probability of a call and...

We consider the combinatorial stack-up problem motivated by stacking up bins from a conveyor onto pallets. The stack-up problem is to decide whether a given list q of labeled objects can be processed by removing step by step one of the first s objects of q so that the following holds. After each...