The XYZ company manufactures mobile phones. It is currently considering introducing two new lines of phone, the Standard and the Executive. Each phone needs a battery, a chip, and an injection-moulded ...

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 46, No. 1 (2007/2008), pp. 180-200 (21 pages) A wide variety of problems in global optimization, combinatorial optimization, as well as systems and control ...