4 papers
The Sensitivity of the U.S. Presidential Election to Coordinated Voter Relocation
Carlos Cardonha, David Bergman, Andre Cire +2
U.S. presidential elections are decided by the Electoral College, established in 1789, and designed to mitigate potential risks arising from the collusion of large groups of citize…
Binary Decision Diagrams for Bin Packing with Minimum Color Fragmentation
David Bergman, Carlos Cardonha, Saharnaz Mehrani
Bin Packing with Minimum Color Fragmentation (BPMCF) is an extension of the Bin Packing Problem in which each item has a size and a color and the goal is to minimize the sum of the…
Theoretical and Practical Aspects of the Linear Tape Scheduling Problem
Carlos Cardonha, Lucas C. Villa Real
Magnetic tapes have been playing a key role as means for storage of digital data for decades, and their unsurpassed cost-effectiveness still make them the technology of choice in s…
Network Models for Multiobjective Discrete Optimization
David Bergman, Merve Bodur, Carlos Cardonha +1
This paper provides a novel framework for solving multiobjective discrete optimization problems with an arbitrary number of objectives. Our framework formulates these problems as n…