A mixed binary integer linear program is formulated to determine the economic development of marginal groundwater sources at local demand sites in an arid region. These marginal sources are required to augment the supply from an overloaded regional source. The model accounts for variable costs...

This paper considers the equitable division of a set of assets, all or some of which are indivisible, among two beneficiaries, simultaneously using several methods of valuing the assets. The problem arises when a fiduciary is required to distribute the assets---of a trust or estate, or to divide...

This paper presents a solution procedure for a class of discontinuous nonlinear knapsack problems. These problems have a single linear constraint and a restriction that each variable must be either zero or take on a value within a specified interval. The objective function is separable and each...