The table placement problem consists in deciding how to seat the participants attending a social lunch or dinner so that the total social benefit of the event is maximum. Four different approaches are presented: a linear model, a bin-packing-based-approach, a quadratic assignment problem, and a...

We improve and extend sufficient conditions for an optimal solution to happen at a fixed point in a single facility minisum location model with mixed transportation modes recently proposed and studied by Brimberg, Love and Mladenović. In particular, conditions are derived that are valid for...

Demand existing at client points in the plane for several products should be met. Products have to be assembled from different components obtainable at given prices at various sources with known production capacities. The optimal design of the resulting supply chain must be determined, including...