Based on recent successful rebuilds in the NBA, such as the Oklahoma City Thunder and Houston Rockets, there are two non-negotiables for turning a franchise around: draft capital and financial ...

Abstract: This letter presents an enhanced Trust Region Method (TRM) for Sequential Linear Programming (SLP) designed to improve the initial feasible solution to a constrained nonlinear programming ...

When the Trump administration targeted billions of dollars in federal welfare funds recently over fraud concerns, it singled out five Democratic-run states. An examination by The Wall Street Journal ...

Abstract: In this paper, we address the bin packing problem while minimizing the total loading cost of used bins. We focus on two different quantity discount schemes: the all unit discount and the ...