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The Madness of Multiple Entries in March Madness
Jeff Decary, David Bergman, Carlos Cardonha +2
This paper explores multi-entry strategies for betting pools related to single-elimination tournaments. In such betting pools, participants select winners of games, and their respe…
Cardinality-Constrained Continuous Knapsack Problem with Concave Piecewise-Linear Utilities
Miao Bai, Carlos Cardonha
We study an extension of the cardinality-constrained knapsack problem wherein each item has a concave piecewise linear utility structure (CCKP), which is motivated by applications…
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…