Product assortment and availability are important determinants of sales success for firms of industrial commodity products. Well-known pricing and promotion strategies for differentiated products do not translate well to such products where price is closely tied to the cost of the products....

We propose an exact method, based on Generalized Benders Decomposition, to select the best M features during induction. We provide details of the method and highlight some interesting parallels between the technique proposed here and some of those published in the literature. We also propose a...

We propose a one-norm support vector machine (SVM) formulation as an alternative to the well-known formulation that uses parameter C in order to balance the two inherent objective functions of the problem. Our formulation is motivated by the ϵ-constraint approach that is used in bicriteria...