In an era of global customization, dominating the majority market with a single product has become increasingly difficult and almost impossible for most companies. In contrast, they must provide various product varieties that attract diverse customers, particularly when acquiring distinct market segments. In practice, however, most companies cannot effectively reduce the gap between customer re...

Extensive-form games are a powerful tool for modeling a large range of multiagent scenarios. However, most solution algorithms require discrete, finite games. In contrast, many real-world domains require modeling with continuous action spaces. This is usually handled by heuristically discretizing the continuous action space without solution quality bounds. In this paper we address this issue. L...

There are no analytical solutions for the problem of dynamic scheduling of resources for multiple projects in realtime. Mathematical approaches, like integer programming or network based techniques, cannot describe complexity of real problems (multi-projects environments have many interrelated elements), and have difficulties to adapt the analysis to dynamics changes. However, this complex prob...

0360-8352/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2012.07.006 ⇑ Corresponding author at: Department of Mechanica Engineering Bldg., University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, 492 2651. E-mail address: [email protected] (J. Dou Many problems in business, engineering, defence, resource exploitation, and even the medical sciences with location aspects can be expre...