Optimization problems can be tricky, but they make the world work better. These kinds of questions, which strive for the best way of doing something, are absolutely everywhere. Your phone’s GPS ...

This paper deals with scheduling n jobs on a single machine in order to minimize the weighted sum of squared waiting times of the jobs. We present a powerful decomposition mechanism, based on a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper we are concerned with the problem of finding the global minimum of a concave function over a closed, convex, possibly unbounded ...