The sequential stochastic assignment problem (SSAP) allocates distinct workers with deterministic values to sequentially arriving tasks with stochastic parameters to maximize the expected total reward ...

There is a class of assignment problems where the cost function depends on the assignment of pairs of variables. A method of finding the optimum solution by a systematic exploration of a limited part ...

Random case assignment is a hallmark of the federal justice system. Judges can't shop for cases they like and shunt aside the ones they don't. Otherwise, Medicare cases would never be heard. But in ...