There is a class of assignment problems where the cost function depends on the assignment of pairs of variables. A method of finding the optimum solution by a systematic exploration of a limited part ...

Reviewer assignment algorithms and systems have emerged as critical tools in modern academic publishing and research evaluation, ensuring that submitted manuscripts are matched with expert reviewers ...

This paper concerns finding a tight lower bound to the travelling-salesman problem, with the hope that all the different branch-and-bound algorithms for this problem can benefit from it. The bound is ...