Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to tackle the problem an electricity trader faces when trying to set and validate his sale prices. Design/methodology/approach – The solution approach consists in offering adequate incentives to the customers in order to encourage them to shift their...

We investigate the Minimum Evolution Problem (MEP), an NP-hard network design problem arising from computational biology. The MEP consists in finding a weighted unrooted binary tree having n leaves, minimal length, and such that the sum of the edge weights belonging to the unique path between...

The paper presents a review of the available literature on a class of problems denoted as dynamic routing-and-inventory (DRAl) problems. They are characterized by the simultaneous relevance of routing and of inventory issues in a dynamic environment, within the framework of distribution...