Due to the dramatic increase in the world’s container traffic, the efficient management of operations in seaport container terminals has become a crucial issue. In this work, we focus on the integrated planning of the following problems faced at container terminals: berth allocation, quay...

The capacitated multi-facility Weber problem is concerned with locating m facilities in the Euclidean plane, and allocating their capacities to n customers at minimum total cost. The deterministic version of the problem, which assumes that customer locations and demands are known with certainty,...

Sensors form an effective wireless network for the surveillance of a region. Ensuring coverage is an important issue in wireless sensor network design. This paper focuses on an application where sensors are used to detect intruders. The defender wants to determine the best locations of the...

We present and solve two bilevel programming (BP) models describing the subsidization agreement between the government and a company engaged in collection and recovery operations. These enable the company to capture the remaining value in cores, referring to used products of different quality...