In real life distribution of goods, relatively long service times may make it difficult to serve all requests during regular working hours. These difficulties are even greater if the beginning of the service in each demand site must occur within a time window and violations of routing time...

We consider a model for determining optimal opportunistic maintenance schedules w.r.t. a maximum replacement interval. This problem generalizes that of Dickman et al. (J Oper Res Soc India 28:165–175, <CitationRef CitationID="CR12">1991</CitationRef>) and is a natural starting point for modelling replacement schedules of more complex...</citationref>

In this paper, we address a service provider’s product line pricing problem for substitutable products in services, such as concerts, sporting events, or online advertisements. For each product, a static price is selected from a pre-defined set such that the total revenue is maximised. The...

The portfolio optimization problem has attracted researchers from many disciplines to resolve the issue of poor out-of-sample performance due to estimation errors in the expected returns. A practical method for portfolio construction is to use assets’ ordering information, expressed in the...