Advances and Novel Approaches in Discrete Optimization

Discrete optimization is an important area of Applied Mathematics with a broad spectrum of applications in many fields. This book results from a Special Issue in the journal Mathematics entitled Advances and Novel Approaches in Discrete Optimization. It contains 17 articles covering a broad spectrum of subjects which have been selected from 43 submitted papers after a thorough refereeing process. Among other topics it includes seven articles dealing with scheduling problems e.g. online scheduling batching dual and inverse scheduling problems or uncertain scheduling problems. Other subjects are graphs and applications evacuation planning the max-cut problem capacitated lot-sizing and packing algorithms.