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Motivation for Research: Large combinatorial optimization problems involve an exponentially growing decision space, where finding a good solution often becomes extremely difficult using traditional ...

Studies linear and nonlinear programming, the simplex method, duality, sensitivity, transportation and network flow problems, some constrained and unconstrained optimization theory, and the ...

In the classical secretary problem an employer would like to choose the best candidate among n competing candidates that arrive in a random order. In each iteration, one candidate's rank vis-a-vis ...