This paper develops a mathematical programming model for obtaining a best set of sites for planned facilities. The model is concerned with those situations where resource constraints are present. The specific setting for the paper involves the selection of sites for a set of retail outlets,...

This paper presents a new approach to the classical multiyear capital budgeting problem. Three basic operational principles, arising out of an actual implementation of such a model, are specifically addressed in this approach. These principles are: (1) all budgets except that of the first year...

This paper presents a solution procedure for a class of discontinuous nonlinear knapsack problems. These problems have a single linear constraint and a restriction that each variable must be either zero or take on a value within a specified interval. The objective function is separable and each...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a methodology used to evaluate the relative efficiencies of peer decision-making units (DMUs) in multiple input, multiple output situations. In the original formulation, and in the vast literature that followed, the assumption was that all members of the input...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a methodology for evaluating the efficiencies of decision-making units (DMUs), with each unit having its own set of inputs and outputs. However, there are situations where the DMUs can be interdependent. The authors in previous papers examine the case of a...