Decision making problems in hierarchical managerial or public organizations are often formulated as two-level mathematical programming problems [1,2]. In the context of two-level programming, the ...

Discrete combinatorial optimization has a central role in many scientific disciplines, however, for hard problems we lack linear time algorithms that would allow us to solve very large instances.

Stop-loss and limited loss random variables are two important transforms of a loss random variable and appear in many modeling problems in insurance, finance, and other fields. Risk levels of a loss ...