The Optimal Composting Problem
Background:
An environmentally conscious institutional cafeteria is recycling customers’ uneaten food into compost b...
The Emergency Power- Restoration Problem
Background:
Power companies serving coastal regions must have emergency-response systems for power outages due to st...
The Air-Traffic-Control Radar Problem
Background:
You are to determine the power to be radiated by an air-traffic-control radar at a major metropolitan ai...
The Steiner Tree Problem
Background:
The cost for a communication line between two stations is proportional to the length of the line. The co...
The Water Tank Problem
Background:
Some state water-right agencies require from communities data on the rate of water use, in gallons per h...
The Brain-Drug Problem
Background:
Researchers on brain disorders test the effects of the new medical drugs— for example, dopamine against ...
The Snowplow Problem
Background:
The solid lines of the map represent paved two-lane county roads in a snow-removal district in Wicomico ...
The Midge Classification Problem
Background:
Two species of midges, Af and Apf, have been identified by biologists Grogan and Wirth [1981] on the bas...
The Aircraft Queueing Problem
Background:
A common procedure at airports is to assign aircraft (A/C) to runways on a first-come-first-served basis...
The Drug Runner Problem
Background:
Two listening posts 5.43 miles apart pick up a brief radio signal. The sensing devices were oriented at ...
The Railroad Flatcar Problem
Background:
Two railroad flatcars are to be loaded with seven types of packing crates. The crates have the same widt...
The Salt Storage Problem
Background:
For approximately 15 years, a Midwestern state has stored salt used on roads in the winter in circular d...
The Parking Lot Problem
Background:
The owner of a paved, 100-ft-by-200-ft, corner parking lot in a New England town hires you to design the...
The Hydrographic Data Problem
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The table gives the depth Z of water in feet for surface points with rectangular coordinates X, Y in yar...
The Emergency-Facilities Location Problem
Background:
The township of Rio Rancho has hitherto not had its own emergency facilities. It has secured funds to er...
The Strategic Reserve Problem
Background:
Cobalt, which is not produced in the U.S., is essential to a number of industries. (Defense accounted fo...
The Animal Population Problem
Background:
Choose a fish or mammal for which appropriate data are available to model it accurately. Model the anima...