We consider the multi-level bottleneck assignment problem (MBA). This problem is described in the recent book/Assignment 'Problems' by Burkard et al. (2009) on pages 188-189. One of the applications described there concerns bus driver scheduling.We view the problem as a special case of a...

This paper presents an optimization model for the selection of sets of clients that will receive an offer for one or more products during a promotion campaign. The complexity of the problem makes it very difficult to produce optimal solutions using standard optimization methods. We propose an...