FOUNDER
Peter L. Hammer (1936–2006)
Editor-in-Chief
Endre Boros, RUTCOR, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 640 Bartholomew Road, Piscataway,
NJ 08854-8003, USA
Associate Editors
M.F. Anjos, Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West,
Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada
W. Kubiak, Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL A1B
3X5, Canada
V. Lozin, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
D. de Werra, MA C1.563 (B
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atiment MA), IMA – EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Advisory Editors
E. Balas, Carnegie-Mellon University, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Schenley Park,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
P.C. Fishburn, AT&T Labs - Research, 180 Park Avenue, Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971, USA
T. Ibaraki, Department of Informatics, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei; Gakuin University, 2-1
Gakuen Sanda, 669-1337 Japan
D.J. Kleitman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA 02139,
USA
B. Korte, Universit
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at Bonn, Abteilung Operations Research, Nassestrasse 2, D-5300 Bonn 1, Germany
Board of Editors
N. Alon, Tel Aviv University, Department of Mathematics, Ramat Aviv, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
D. Avis, McGill University, School of Computer Science, 3480 University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2A7,
Canada
J.-C. Bermond, Project MASCOTTE, I3S-INRIA, 2004 Route des Lucioles, BP 93, F-06902 Sophia-Antipolis,
France
A. Brandst
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adt, Universit
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at Rostock, Fachbereich Informatik, Albert-Einstein-Str. 21, D-18051 Rostock,
Germany
R.E. Burkard, Technische Universit
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at Graz, Institut f
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ur Mathematik, Steyergasse 30, A-8010 Graz, Austria
V. Chv
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atal, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, 1455
De Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, Canada
D.G. Corneil, University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A4, Canada
S. Fujishige, Kyoto University, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
F. Giannessi, Universita di Pisa, Dipartimento di Matematica, Via Buonarroti 2, I-156100 Pisa, Italy
M.C. Golumbic, University of Haifa, Department of Computer Science, Mt. Carmel, Haifa, Israel
R.L. Graham, University of California – San Diego, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
La Jolla, CA 92093-0114, USA
P. Hansen, GERAD-HEC,
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Ecole Polytechnique Montr
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eal, 5255 Ave. Decelles, Montr
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eal, Quebec H3T 1V6,
Canada
doi:10.1016/S0166-218X(10)00053-3