This paper defines the components and characteristics of an important class of models called weighted assignment models and identifies these elements in a number of existing and potential applications ...

Reviewer assignment algorithms and systems have emerged as critical tools in modern academic publishing and research evaluation, ensuring that submitted manuscripts are matched with expert reviewers ...

This paper concerns finding a tight lower bound to the travelling-salesman problem, with the hope that all the different branch-and-bound algorithms for this problem can benefit from it. The bound is ...