The transportation method of linear programming is extended to a more general class of problem, for which the "stepping-stone method" of Charnes and Cooper fails. The method is applicable to various ...

The Stepping Stones economic analysis of space transportation supplied from near-Earth object (NEO) resources demonstrates the potential to break the tyranny of increasing space transportation costs ...

In this paper it is shown that the combinatorial problem of scheduling jobs of equal duration with tardiness costs and resource limitations can be solved by formulating the problem as a classical ...