4 papers
Fairness, Travel, and Market Potential: An Optimization Framework for NBA Expansion
Ali Hassanzadeh, Morteza Davari, Dries Goossens
The potential expansion of the National Basketball Association (NBA) to 32 teams raises the question of how to restructure its conferences and divisions while balancing travel effi…
Balanced connected partitions of edge-weighted graphs: Hardness and solving methods
Morteza Davari, Phablo F. S. Moura, Hande Yaman
The balanced connected -partition problem (\textsc{bcp}) is a classic problem, which consists in partitioning the set of vertices of a vertex-weighted connected graph into a col…
Scheduling a single parallel-batching machine with non-identical job sizes and incompatible job families
Fan Yang, Morteza Davari, Wenchao Wei +2
We study the scheduling of jobs on a single parallel-batching machine with non-identical job sizes and incompatible job families. Jobs from the same family have the same processing…
Single-machine scheduling with an external resource
Dirk Briskorn, Morteza Davari, Jannik Matuschke
This paper studies the complexity of single-machine scheduling with an external resource, which is rented for a non-interrupted period. Jobs that need this external resource are ex…