In this paper we analyze certain matching problems that arise in ground delay program planning. Ground delay programs are air traffic flow management initiatives put in place when airport arrival demand is expected to exceed arrival capacity for an extended length of time, e.g. 4 hours. Most of...

A general problem in health-care consists in allocating some scarce medical resource, such as operating rooms or medical staff, to medical specialties in order to keep the queue of patients as short as possible. A major difficulty stems from the fact that such an allocation must be established...

This paper addresses the constrained-based routing problem in DiffServaware MPLS networks. We consider a dynamic context in which new requests appear over time, asking for reconfigurations of the previous allocation. In the classical approach, a multi-phase heuristic procedure is adopted: the...

Wireless networks have shown a rapid growth over the past two decades and now play an increasingly prominent role in different telecommunication systems. Consequently, scarce resources such as the radio spectrum and the physical sites that accommodate transmitters have become extremely congested...

Wireless networks have shown a rapid growth over the past two decades and now play a key role in new generation telecommunications networks. The physical medium of wireless networks is the radio spectrum, a scarce resource which is becoming extremely congested and needs to be allocated in more...

Transmitters and receivers are the basic elements of wireless networks and are characterized by a number of radio-electrical parameters. The generic planning problem consists in establishing suitable values for these parameters so as to optimize some network performance indicator. The version...

Train scheduling is a critical activity in rail traffic management, both off-line (timetabling) and on-line (dispatching). Time-Indexed formulations for scheduling problems are stronger than other classical formulations, like Big-M. Unfortunately, their size grows usually very large with the...

This paper proposes a new modelling framework for electricity forward markets based on so-called ambit fields. The new model can capture many of the stylised facts observed in energy markets and is highly analytically tractable. We give a detailed account on the probabilistic properties of the...