Three-staged cutting patterns are often used in dividing large plates into small rectangular items. Vertical cuts separate the plate into segments in the first stage, horizontal cuts split each ...

Consider the following scenario: you are watching a movie in your living room. One of the supporting characters is played by someone who looks familiar, but you can’t quite put your finger on where ...

This paper addresses the Ground Crew Rostering Problem with Work Patterns, an important manpower planning problem arising in the ground operations of airline companies. We present a cutting ...

About 40 years ago Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky made some wonderful discoveries. They identified a set of heuristics that people use — availability, representativeness, anchoring and adjustment, ...