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Most Cited Computers & Operations Research Articles
The most cited articles published since 2011, extracted from Scopus.
A modified artificial bee colony algorithmWei Feng Gao | San Yang Liu
Volume 39, Issue 3, March 2012, Pages 687-697
Artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC) is a relatively new optimization technique which has been shown to be competitive to other population-based algorithms. However, there is still an insufficiency in ABC regarding its solution search equation, which is good at exploration but poor at exploitation. Inspired by differential evolution (DE), we propose an improved solution search equation, which is based on that the bee searches only around the best solution of the previous iteration to improve the exploitation. Then, in order to make full use of and balance the exploration of the solution search equation of ABC and the exploitation of the proposed solution search equation, we introduce a selective probability P and get the new search mechanism. In addition, to enhance the global convergence, when producing the initial population, both chaotic systems and opposition-based learning methods are employed. The new search mechanism together with the proposed initialization makes up the modified ABC (MABC for short), which excludes the probabilistic selection scheme and scout bee phase. Experiments are conducted on a set of 28 benchmark functions. The results demonstrate good performance of MABC in solving complex numerical optimization problems when compared with two ABC-based algorithms. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Multiobjective cuckoo search for design optimizationXin She Yang | Suash Deb
Volume 40, Issue 6, June 2013, Pages 1616-1624
Many design problems in engineering are typically multiobjective, under complex nonlinear constraints. The algorithms needed to solve multiobjective problems can be significantly different from the methods for single objective optimization. Computing effort and the number of function evaluations may often increase significantly for multiobjective problems. Metaheuristic algorithms start to show their advantages in dealing with multiobjective optimization. In this paper, we formulate a new cuckoo search for multiobjective optimization. We validate it against a set of multiobjective test functions, and then apply it to solve structural design problems such as beam design and disc brake design. In addition, we also analyze the main characteristics of the algorithm and their implications. Crown Copyright © 2011 PublishedbyElsevierLtd. Allrightsreserved.
Optimal production planning for a multi-product closed loop system with uncertain demand and returnJianmai Shi | Guoqing Zhang | Jichang Sha
Volume 38, Issue 3, March 2011, Pages 641-650
We study the production planning problem for a multi-product closed loop system, in which the manufacturer has two channels for supplying products: producing brand-new products and remanufacturing returns into as-new ones. In the remanufacturing process, used products are bought back and remanufactured into as-new products which are sold together with the brand-new ones. The demands for all the products are uncertain, and their returns are uncertain and price-sensitive. The problem is to maximize the manufacturer's expected profit by jointly determining the production quantities of brand-new products, the quantities of remanufactured products and the acquisition prices of the used products, subject to a capacity constraint. A mathematical model is presented to formulate the problem and a Lagrangian relaxation based approach is developed to solve the problem. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the model and test the solution approach. Computational results show that the proposed approach is highly promising for solving the problems. The sensitivity analysis is also conducted to generate managerial insights. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A hybrid genetic algorithm with adaptive diversity management for a large class of vehicle routing problems with time-windowsThibaut Vidal | Teodor Gabriel Crainic | Michel Gendreau | Christian Prins
Volume 40, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 475-489
The paper presents an efficient Hybrid Genetic Search with Advanced Diversity Control for a large class of time-constrained vehicle routing problems, introducing several new features to manage the temporal dimension. New move evaluation techniques are proposed, accounting for penalized infeasible solutions with respect to time-window and duration constraints, and allowing to evaluate moves from any classical neighbourhood based on arc or node exchanges in amortized constant time. Furthermore, geometric and structural problem decompositions are developed to address efficiently large problems. The proposed algorithm outperforms all current state-of-the-art approaches on classical literature benchmark instances for any combination of periodic, multi-depot, site-dependent, and duration-constrained vehicle routing problem with time windows. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Development of a fuel consumption optimization model for the capacitated vehicle routing problemYiyong Xiao | Qiuhong Zhao | Ikou Kaku | Yuchun Xu
Volume 39, Issue 7, July 2012, Pages 1419-1431
Fuel consumption accounts for a large and increasing part of transportation costs. In this paper, the Fuel Consumption Rate (FCR), a factor considered as a load dependant function, is added to the classical capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) to extend traditional studies on CVRP with the objective of minimizing fuel consumption. We present a mathematical optimization model to formally characterize the FCR considered CVRP (FCVRP) as well as a string based version for calculation. A simulated annealing algorithm with a hybrid exchange rule is developed to solve FCVRP and shows good performance on both the traditional CVRP and the FCVRP in substantial computation experiments. The results of the experiments show that the FCVRP model can reduce fuel consumption by 5% on average compared to the CVRP model. Factors causing the variation in fuel consumption are also identified and discussed in this study. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A differential evolution algorithm with self-adapting strategy and control parametersQuan Ke Pan | P. N. Suganthan | Ling Wang | Liang Gao | R. Mallipeddi
Volume 38, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 394-408
This paper presents a Differential Evolution algorithm with self-adaptive trial vector generation strategy and control parameters (SspDE) for global numerical optimization over continuous space. In the SspDE algorithm, each target individual has an associated strategy list (SL), a mutation scaling factor F list (FL), and a crossover rate CR list (CRL). During the evolution, a trial individual is generated by using a strategy, F, and CR taken from the lists associated with the target vector. If the obtained trial individual is better than the target vector, the used strategy, F, and CR will enter a winning strategy list (wSL), a winning F list (wFL), and a winning CR list (wCRL), respectively. After a given number of iterations, the FL, CRL or SL will be refilled at a high probability by selecting elements from wFL, wCRL and wSL or randomly generated values. In this way, both the trial vector generation strategy and its associated parameters can be gradually self-adapted to match different phases of evolution by learning from their previous successful experience. Extensive computational simulations and comparisons are carried out by employing a set of 19 benchmark problems from the literature. The computational results show that overall the SspDE algorithm performs better than the state-of-the-art differential evolution variants. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Multi-operator based evolutionary algorithms for solving constrained optimization problemsSaber M. Elsayed | Ruhul A. Sarker | Daryl L. Essam
Volume 38, Issue 12, December 2011, Pages 1877-1896
Over the last two decades, many sophisticated evolutionary algorithms have been introduced for solving constrained optimization problems. Due to the variability of characteristics in different COPs, no single algorithm performs consistently over a range of problems. In this paper, for a better coverage of the problem characteristics, we introduce an algorithm framework that uses multiple search operators in each generation. The appropriate mix of the search operators, for any given problem, is determined adaptively. The framework is tested by implementing two different algorithms. The performance of the algorithms is judged by solving 60 test instances taken from two constrained optimization benchmark sets from specialized literature. The first algorithm, which is a multi-operator based genetic algorithm (GA), shows a significant improvement over different versions of GA (each with a single one of these operators). The second algorithm, using differential evolution (DE), also confirms the benefit of the multi-operator algorithm by providing better and consistent solutions. The overall results demonstrated that both GA and DE based algorithms show competitive, if not better, performance as compared to the state of the art algorithms. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Solving reliability redundancy allocation problems using an artificial bee colony algorithmWei Chang Yeh | Tsung Jung Hsieh
Volume 38, Issue 11, November 2011, Pages 1465-1473
This paper proposed a penalty guided artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC) to solve the reliability redundancy allocation problem (RAP). The redundancy allocation problem involves setting reliability objectives for components or subsystems in order to meet the resource consumption constraint, e.g. the total cost. RAP has been an active area of research for the past four decades. The difficulty that one is confronted with the RAP is the maintenance of feasibility with respect to three nonlinear constraints, namely, cost, weight and volume related constraints. In this paper nonlinearly mixed-integer reliability design problems are investigated where both the number of redundancy components and the corresponding component reliability in each subsystem are to be decided simultaneously so as to maximize the reliability of the system. The reliability design problems have been studied in the literature for decades, usually using mathematical programming or heuristic optimization approaches. To the best of our knowledge the ABC algorithm can search over promising feasible and infeasible regions to find the feasible optimal/near-optimal solution effectively and efficiently; numerical examples indicate that the proposed approach performs well with the reliability redundant allocation design problems considered in this paper and computational results compare favorably with previously-developed algorithms in the literature. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
A Branch-and-Cut method for the Capacitated Location-Routing ProblemJos Manuel Belenguer | Enrique Benavent | Christian Prins | Caroline Prodhon | Roberto Wolfler Calvo
Volume 38, Issue 6, June 2011, Pages 931-941
Recent researches in the design of logistic networks have shown that the overall distribution cost may be excessive if routing decisions are ignored when locating depots. The Location-Routing Problem (LRP) overcomes this drawback by simultaneously tackling location and routing decisions. The aim of this paper is to propose an exact approach based on a Branch-and-Cut algorithm for solving the LRP with capacity constraints on depots and vehicles. The proposed method is based on a zero-one linear model strengthened by new families of valid inequalities. The computational evaluation on three sets of instances (34 instances in total), with 510 potential depots and 2088 customers, shows that 26 instances with five depots are solved to optimality, including all instances with up to 40 customers and three with 50 customers. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A parallel iterated tabu search heuristic for vehicle routing problemsJean François Cordeau | Mirko Maischberger
Volume 39, Issue 9, September 2012, Pages 2033-2050
This paper introduces a parallel iterated tabu search heuristic for solving four different routing problems: the classical vehicle routing problem (VRP), the periodic VRP, the multi-depot VRP, and the site-dependent VRP. In addition, it is applicable to the time-window constrained variant of these problems. Using the iterated local search framework, the heuristic combines tabu search with a simple perturbation mechanism to ensure a broad exploration of the search space. We also describe a parallel implementation of the heuristic to take advantage of multiple-core processors. Extensive computational results show that the proposed heuristic outperforms tabu search alone and is competitive with recent heuristics designed for each particular problem. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
An improved multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with time windowsAbel Garcia-Najera | John A. Bullinaria
Volume 38, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 287-300
The vehicle routing problem with time windows is a complex combinatorial problem with many real-world applications in transportation and distribution logistics. Its main objective is to find the lowest distance set of routes to deliver goods, using a fleet of identical vehicles with restricted capacity, to customers with service time windows. However, there are other objectives, and having a range of solutions representing the trade-offs between objectives is crucial for many applications. Although previous research has used evolutionary methods for solving this problem, it has rarely concentrated on the optimization of more than one objective, and hardly ever explicitly considered the diversity of solutions. This paper proposes and analyzes a novel multi-objective evolutionary algorithm, which incorporates methods for measuring the similarity of solutions, to solve the multi-objective problem. The algorithm is applied to a standard benchmark problem set, showing that when the similarity measure is used appropriately, the diversity and quality of solutions is higher than when it is not used, and the algorithm achieves highly competitive results compared with previously published studies and those from a popular evolutionary multi-objective optimizer. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A tabu search algorithm for the heterogeneous fixed fleet vehicle routing problemJosé Brandão
Volume 38, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 140-151
In the heterogeneous fixed fleet vehicle routing problem there are different types of vehicles and a given number of vehicles of each type. The resolution of this problem consists of assigning the customers to the existing vehicles and, in relation to each vehicle, defining the order of visiting each customer for the delivery or collection of goods. The objective is to minimize the total costs, satisfying customers' requirements and visiting each customer exactly once. In this paper a tabu search algorithm is proposed and tested on several benchmark problems. The computational experiments show that the proposed algorithm produces high quality solutions within an acceptable computation time. Four new best solutions are reported for a set of test problems used in the literature. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A new hybrid genetic algorithm for job shop scheduling problemRen Qing-Dao-Er-Ji | Yuping Wang
Volume 39, Issue 10, October 2012, Pages 2291-2299
Job shop scheduling problem is a typical NP-hard problem. To solve the job shop scheduling problem more effectively, some genetic operators were designed in this paper. In order to increase the diversity of the population, a mixed selection operator based on the fitness value and the concentration value was given. To make full use of the characteristics of the problem itself, new crossover operator based on the machine and mutation operator based on the critical path were specifically designed. To find the critical path, a new algorithm to find the critical path from schedule was presented. Furthermore, a local search operator was designed, which can improve the local search ability of GA greatly. Based on all these, a hybrid genetic algorithm was proposed and its convergence was proved. The computer simulations were made on a set of benchmark problems and the results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
An adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic for Two-Echelon Vehicle Routing Problems arising in city logisticsVera C. Hemmelmayr | Jean François Cordeau | Teodor Gabriel Crainic
Volume 39, Issue 12, December 2012, Pages 3215-3228
In this paper, we propose an adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic for the Two-Echelon Vehicle Routing Problem (2E-VRP) and the Location Routing Problem (LRP). The 2E-VRP arises in two-level transportation systems such as those encountered in the context of city logistics. In such systems, freight arrives at a major terminal and is shipped through intermediate satellite facilities to the final customers. The LRP can be seen as a special case of the 2E-VRP in which vehicle routing is performed only at the second level. We have developed new neighborhood search operators by exploiting the structure of the two problem classes considered and have also adapted existing operators from the literature. The operators are used in a hierarchical scheme reflecting the multi-level nature of the problem. Computational experiments conducted on several sets of instances from the literature show that our algorithm outperforms existing solution methods for the 2E-VRP and achieves excellent results on the LRP. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
An effective shuffled frog-leaping algorithm for resource-constrained project scheduling problemChen Fang | Ling Wang
Volume 39, Issue 5, May 2012, Pages 890-901
In this paper, we propose an effective heuristic based on the framework of the shuffled frog-leaping algorithm (SFLA) for solving the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP). We encode the virtual frog as the extended activity list (EAL) and decode it by the SFLA-specific serial schedule generation scheme (SSSGS). The initial population is generated by the regret-based sampling method and the priority rule. Then, virtual frogs are partitioned into several memeplexes, and each memeplex evolves by adopting the effective resource-based crossover (RBCO). To enhance the exploitation ability, a combined local search including permutation-based local search (PBLS) and forwardbackward improvement (FBI) is performed in each memeplex. To maintain the diversity of each memeplex, virtual frogs are periodically shuffled and reorganized into new memeplexes. Basing on some theoretical analysis, speed-up evaluation methods are proposed to improve the efficiency of the SFLA, which are also suitable for other heuristics designed for RCPSP. In addition, we make use of a design-of-experiment method to determine the set of suitable parameters for the SFLA. Computational results and comparisons with some typical existing algorithms demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed SFLA. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A Neurogenetic approach for the resource-constrained project scheduling problemAnurag Agarwal | Selcuk Colak | Selcuk Erenguc
Volume 38, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 44-50
A variety of metaheuristic approaches have emerged in recent years for solving the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP), a well-known NP-hard problem in scheduling. In this paper, we propose a Neurogenetic approach which is a hybrid of genetic algorithms (GA) and neural-network (NN) approaches. In this hybrid approach the search process relies on GA iterations for global search and on NN iterations for local search. The GA and NN search iterations are interleaved in a manner that allows NN to pick the best solution thus far from the GA pool and perform an intensification search in the solution's local neighborhood. Similarly, good solutions obtained by NN search are included in the GA population for further search using the GA iterations. Although both GA and NN approaches, independently give good solutions, we found that the hybrid approach gives better solutions than either approach independently for the same number of shared iterations. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach empirically on the standard benchmark problems of size J30, J60, J90 and J120 from PSPLIB. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Analysis of facility protection strategies against an uncertain number of attacks: The stochastic R-interdiction median problem with fortificationFederico Liberatore | Maria P. Scaparra | Mark S. Daskin
Volume 38, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 357-366
We present the Stochastic R-Interdiction Median Problem with Fortification (S-RIMF). This model optimally allocates defensive resources among facilities to minimize the worst-case impact of an intentional disruption. Since the extent of terrorist attacks and malicious actions is uncertain, the problem deals with a random number of possible losses. A max-covering type formulation for the S-RIMF is developed. Since the problem size grows very rapidly with the problem inputs, we propose pre-processing techniques based on the computation of valid lower and upper bounds to expedite the solution of instances of realistic size. We also present heuristic approaches based on heuristic concentration-type rules. The heuristics are able to find an optimal solution for almost all the problem instances considered. Extensive computational testing shows that both the optimal algorithm and the heuristics are very successful at solving the problem. Finally, a discussion of the importance of recognizing the stochastic nature of the number of possible attacks is provided. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
An Ant Colony algorithm hybridized with insertion heuristics for the Time Dependent Vehicle Routing Problem with Time WindowsS. R. Balseiro | I. Loiseau | J. Ramonet
Volume 38, Issue 6, June 2011, Pages 954-966
This paper presents an Ant Colony System algorithm hybridized with insertion heuristics for the Time-Dependent Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (TDVRPTW). In the TDVRPTW a fleet of vehicles must deliver goods to a set of customers, time window constraints of the customers must be respected and the fact that the travel time between two points depends on the time of departure has to be taken into account. The latter assumption is particularly important in an urban context where the traffic plays a significant role. A shortcoming of Ant Colony algorithms for capacitated routing problems is that, at the final stages of the algorithm, ants tend to create infeasible solutions with unrouted clients. Hence, we propose enhancing the algorithm with an aggressive insertion heuristic relying on the minimum delay metric. Computational results confirm the benefits of more involved insertion heuristics. Moreover, the resulting algorithm turns out to be competitive, matching or improving the best known results in several benchmark problems. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
An efficient and robust artificial bee colony algorithm for numerical optimizationWan Li Xiang | Mei Qing An
Volume 40, Issue 5, March 2013, Pages 1256-1265
Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm has already shown more effective than other population-based algorithms. However, ABC is good at exploration but poor at exploitation, which results in an issue on convergence performance in some cases. To improve the convergence performance of ABC, an efficient and robust artificial bee colony (ERABC) algorithm is proposed. In ERABC, a combinatorial solution search equation is introduced to accelerate the search process. And in order to avoid being trapped in local minima, chaotic search technique is employed on scout bee phase. Meanwhile, to reach a kind of sustainable evolutionary ability, reverse selection based on roulette wheel is applied to keep the population diversity. In addition, to enhance the global convergence, chaotic initialization is used to produce initial population. Finally, experimental results tested on 23 benchmark functions show that ERABC has a very good performance when compared with two ABC-based algorithms. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
An adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic for the cumulative capacitated vehicle routing problemGlaydston Mattos Ribeiro | Gilbert Laporte
Volume 39, Issue 3, March 2012, Pages 728-735
The cumulative capacitated vehicle routing problem (CCVRP) is a variation of the classical capacitated vehicle routing problem in which the objective is the minimization of the sum of arrival times at customers, instead of the total routing cost. This paper presents an adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic for the CCVRP. This algorithm is applied to a set of benchmark instances and compared with two recently published memetic algorithms. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Solving a group layout design model of a dynamic cellular manufacturing system with alternative process routings, lot splitting and flexible reconfiguration by simulated annealingR. Kia | A. Baboli | N. Javadian | R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam | M. Kazemi | J. Khorrami
Volume 39, Issue 11, November 2012, Pages 2642-2658
This paper presents a novel mixed-integer non-linear programming model for the layout design of a dynamic cellular manufacturing system (DCMS). In a dynamic environment, the product mix and part demands are varying during a multi-period planning horizon. As a result, the best cell configuration for one period may not be efficient for successive periods, and thus it necessitates reconfigurations. Three major and interrelated decisions are involved in the design of a CMS; namely cell formation (CF), group layout (GL) and group scheduling (GS). A novel aspect of this model is concurrently making the CF and GL decisions in a dynamic environment. The proposed model integrating the CF and GL decisions can be used by researchers and practitioners to design GL in practical and dynamic cell formation problems. Another compromising aspect of this model is the utilization of multi-rows layout to locate machines in the cells configured with flexible shapes. Such a DCMS model with an extensive coverage of important manufacturing features has not been proposed before and incorporates several design features including alternate process routings, operation sequence, processing time, production volume of parts, purchasing machine, duplicate machines, machine capacity, lot splitting, intra-cell layout, inter-cell layout, multi-rows layout of equal area facilities and flexible reconfiguration. The objective of the integrated model is to minimize the total costs of intra and inter-cell material handling, machine relocation, purchasing new machines, machine overhead and machine processing. Linearization procedures are used to transform the presented non-linear programming model into a linearized formulation. Two numerical examples taken from the literature are solved by the Lingo software using a branch-and-bound method to illustrate the performance of this model. An efficient simulated annealing (SA) algorithm with elaborately designed solution representation and neighborhood generation is extended to solve the proposed model because of its NP-hardness. It is then tested using several problems with different sizes and settings to verify the computational efficiency of the developed algorithm in comparison with the Lingo software. The obtained results show that the proposed SA is able to find the near-optimal solutions in computational time, approximately 100 times less than Lingo. Also, the computational results show that the proposed model to some extent overcomes common disadvantages in the existing dynamic cell formation models that have not yet considered layout problems. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Slacks-based measure of efficiency of airports with airplanes delays as undesirable outputsSebastin Lozano | Ester Gutiérrez
Volume 38, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 131-139
This paper reports the slacks-based measure (SBM) of efficiency of 39 Spanish airports for years 2006 and 2007. In addition to the conventional outputs (namely aircraft traffic movements, passenger movements and cargo handled), two undesirable outputs have been considered: percentage of delayed flights and average conditional delay of delayed flights. The inputs considered quantify the physical infrastructure of the airports and are considered non-discretionary. The proposed Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach assumes variable returns to scale and joint weak disposability of the desirable and undesirable outputs. The SBM model used has been found to have more discriminatory power than the common directional distance function approach. Also, the inclusion in the analysis of the undesirable effects of airport operations leads to more valid results. The results show that in both years more than half of the airports are technical efficient with the rest showing in general large inefficiencies due to slacks in the different outputs, slacks that the proposed SBM approach is able to identify and quantify. Overall, the system has significant improvement potential in cargo and to a less extent in passengers and percentage of delayed flights. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Optimal newsvendor policies for dual-sourcing supply chains: A disruption risk management frameworkAnastasios Xanthopoulos | Dimitrios Vlachos | Eleftherios Iakovou
Volume 39, Issue 2, February 2012, Pages 350-357
We propose generic single period (newsvendor-type) inventory models for capturing the trade-off between inventory policies and disruption risks in a dual-sourcing supply chain network both unconstrained and under service level constraints, where both supply channels are susceptible to disruption risks. The models are developed for both risk neutral and risk-averse decision-makers and can be applicable for different types of disruptions related among others to the supply of raw materials, the production process, and the distribution system, as well as security breaches and natural disasters. Analytical closed-form solutions are obtained and interesting managerial insights on the merit of contingency strategies in managing uncertainties and risks in dual-sourcing supply chains are discussed. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
Risk-averse two-stage stochastic programming with an application to disaster managementNilay Noyan
Volume 39, Issue 3, March 2012, Pages 541-559
Traditional two-stage stochastic programming is risk-neutral; that is, it considers the expectation as the preference criterion while comparing the random variables (e.g., total cost) to identify the best decisions. However, in the presence of variability risk measures should be incorporated into decision making problems in order to model its effects. In this study, we consider a risk-averse two-stage stochastic programming model, where we specify the conditional-value-at-risk (CVaR) as the risk measure. We construct two decomposition algorithms based on the generic Benders-decomposition approach to solve such problems. Both single-cut and multicut versions of the proposed decomposition algorithms are presented. We adapt the concepts of the value of perfect information (VPI) and the value of the stochastic solution (VSS) for the proposed risk-averse two-stage stochastic programming framework and define two stochastic measures on the VPI and VSS. We apply the proposed model to disaster management, which is one of the research fields that can significantly benefit from risk-averse two-stage stochastic programming models. In particular, we consider the problem of determining the response facility locations and the inventory levels of the relief supplies at each facility in the presence of uncertainty in demand and the damage level of the disaster network. We present numerical results to discuss how incorporating a risk measure affects the optimal solutions and demonstrate the computational effectiveness of the proposed methods. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A Lagrangian heuristic for satellite range scheduling with resource constraintsFabrizio Marinelli | Salvatore Nocella | Fabrizio Rossi | Stefano Smriglio
Volume 38, Issue 11, November 2011, Pages 1572-1583
The data exchange between ground stations and satellite constellations is becoming a challenging task, as more and more communication requests must be daily scheduled on a few, expensive stations located all around the Earth. Most of the scheduling procedures adopted in practice cannot cope with such complexity, and the development of optimization-based tools is strongly spurred. We show that the problem can be formulated as a multiprocessor task scheduling problem in which each job (communication) requires a time dependent pair of resources (ground station and satellite) to be processed, and the objective consists of maximizing the total revenue of on-time jobs. A time-indexed 0,1-linear programming formulation is then introduced able to include all the complex technological constraints of current constellations. Unfortunately, relevant real-world scenarios yield integer programs with hundreds of thousands variables and a few million constraints, which cannot be tackled by standard integer programming (either exact or heuristic) techniques. To overcome this difficulty, we developed a Lagrangian version of the Fix-and-Relax MIP heuristic. It is based on a Lagrangian relaxation of the problem which is shown to be equivalent to a sequence of maximum weighted independent set problems on interval graphs. The heuristic has been implemented in a tool used by the Italian reference operator for the GALILEO constellation, providing near optimal solutions to relevant large scale test problems. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.


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So I was rather upset about seeing the Breaking Dawn Part 1 promotional shots, and seeing Carlisle and how off his hair was...Thinking back to when the trailer came out, I tried to remember any scenes with Carlisle in them. I remembered *THE WEDDING SCENE*. So just to reassure myself I looked and voila, his hair is pulled back!!!
Now when the honeymoon photos were leaked onto the internet, there was a picture with the Cullens in the living room with bella on the couch, I noticed his hair wasn't really pulled back either, and was sort of just hanging. Maybe due to the complications of the situation and a stubborn pregnant Bella, he goes causal and lets his hair hang limp.
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When I saw Peter at the end of May, I asked him about Carlisle's hair in Breaking Dawn. There was a different person doing his hair in Louisiana than in Canada. His hair is really flat in the interior shots. He kept trying to fluff it up, but then the hair person would walk by and flatten it again. In Canada they gave it more fluff so it won't be flat when Carlisle is outdoors. Peter said he figured that Carlisle and Esme always went for a romp outside and he flattened it down on the way into the house. He also said the color is a darker shade of blonde, but it's not red. So it's blonde and sex hair outside and flattened inside.

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Afghans want Aussie gear but not diggers
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AN AFGHAN military commander wants Australia to pull out its troops but leave behind millions of dollars worth of equipment for his soldiers to use.
Brigadier General Mohammed Zafar Khan praised the Australians mentoring his soldiers, but said the Afghan National Army would be able to provide security in Oruzgan province if it was given equipment for night vision, artillery, the capability to address improvised explosive devices and access to medical evacuation helicopters.
"Three years is too much time for the Australians to stay here," General Zafar told Fairfax Media at his Tarin Kowt headquarters.
"The only thing we are short of is some of the modern equipment, mine detectors, night vision, and if we had these things, like medical evacuation choppers to go and pick people up from the battlefield, we are ready at this moment to take over the security of Oruzgan.
"If we receive this equipment, as we request from the Australian government several times, we would say to Australian forces in Oruzgan province: 'we don't need you guys to stay here with us.'"
But Australian commander Lieutenant Colonel Chris Smith says the Afghans need to be convinced they can take on the Taliban without the sophisticated equipment the Australians use.
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The List: 50 Things About the 50th Anniversary of the 1963 American Everest Expedition
On May 1, 1963, the American Everest Expedition succeeded in placing the first American climber on the summit of Everest:
On May 1, 1963, the American Everest Expedition succeeded in placing the first American climber on the summit of Everest: Seattle native Jim Whittaker. The entire team was honored with the National Geographic Society's Hubbard Medal, and Whittaker became a celebrity of the '60s, as famous as astronaut John Glenn. Two other Americans, Lute Jerstad and Barry Bishop, summited via the South Col on the same expedition, and Americans Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld summited via the bold, difficult (and rarely repeated) West Ridge.
In light of the historic expedition's 50th anniversary, we've collected 50 facts about the expedition.
- Since there was no airport at Lukla in 1963, the expedition began on foot: The trek to Base Camp from Kathmandu was 187 miles and took the group a month (Feb. 20, 1963-March 20, 1963).
- Starting in Kathmandu, the trek involved a mass of almost 1,000 moving people:
- 19 American climbers
- 37 Sherpa, and
- 909 porters, carrying
- 27 tons of gear and supplies.
- Only six people had ever stood on the summit before the American expedition – Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953 and four Swiss climbers in 1956, Ernst Schmied, Juerg Marmet, Dolf Reist and Hans-Rudolf von Gunten.
- When Jim Whittaker and Sherpa Nawang Gombu were a few feet below the summit on May 1, 1963, Whittaker yelled for Gombu to go to the summit first. Gombu yelled back, "You first, Big Jim." The men walked to the summit together.
- In an interview after the expedition, Gombu was asked what his first thought was on top of the world's highest peak. He replied, "How…to…get down."
- Before the American Everest Expedition, Jim Whittaker had never been higher than 20,320 feet (the summit of Denali). Willi Unsoeld, who summited the West Ridge, had been on the first ascent of 25,660-foot Masherbrum in 1960.
- Jim Whittaker was also the first full-time employee of REI, and at the time of the expedition, was the company's sales manager. He would go on to become CEO of the company.
- Breakfast on summit day, for Whittaker and Gombu, was one cup of hot Jell-O each.
- On the day Whittaker and Gombu summited, Sir Edmund Hillary was camped at the base of nearby Taweche. He reportedly had looked up toward Everest and declared the weather "impossible."
- On the descent, just beneath Everest's south summit, Whittaker answered what was believed to be the highest call of nature ever.
- Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld summited via the then-unclimbed West Ridge on May 22, three weeks after Whittaker became the first American on the summit.
- On the summit, Unsoeld recited over the radio a verse from Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: "I have promises to keep/and miles to go before I sleep…"
- Only three climbers have summited Everest via the West Ridge since Hornbein and Unsoeld in 1963.
- The same day Hornbein and Unsoeld climbed the West Ridge, Lute Jerstad and Barry Bishop summited via the South Col. The four met below the summit on the South Col route late in the day and descended until they couldn't see anymore.
- The morning of their summit attempt, Bishop and Jerstad made a mistake while changing out a stove fuel canister, and one of their stoves burst into flames, singeing their beards and eyebrows. They were two hours late leaving the high camp for the summit.
- Lute Jerstad filmed the first motion pictures ever captured on the summit, on May 22.
- As Jerstad was filming, Barry Bishop took still photos – knowing he might be confused at the high altitude, he had written on his parka a list of shots he wanted to get.
- After meeting below the summit, Unsoeld, Hornbein, Bishop, and Jerstad climbed downward until they couldn't continue, and stopped to huddle and bivy for the night. It was the highest bivy in the history of mountaineering, at 28,000 feet.
- During the bivy, Unsoeld warmed Hornbein's numb feet against his bare stomach. Hornbein offered to return the favor, but Unsoeld declined, thinking his feet were fine.
- Dave Dingman abandoned his own summit attempt to find Unsoeld, Bishop, Hornbein, and Jerstad and get them safely down the mountain.
- Because of the exposure during the 28,000-foot bivy, Unsoeld and Bishop were unable to walk from Base Camp to Kathmandu – they were transported by military helicopter, and Unsoeld's frostbite cost him nine toes. Bishop lost all ten toes, and the tips of his pinky fingers.
- The American Mount Everest Expedition was the first-ever simultaneous climb of Everest from two directions – the May 22 summits via the South Col and the West Ridge.
- Of the American summiters, only Jim Whittaker and Hornbein are still alive. Bishop was killed in a car accident in 1994, and Unsoeld died in an avalanche on Mount Rainier in 1979. Lute Jerstad had a heart attack while climbing in Nepal in 1998.
- Expedition leader Norman Dyhrenfurth wanted to keep it secret which team member was the first American to summit. Word leaked out six days later that it was Jim Whittaker.
- Each oxygen bottle used (above 22,900 feet, Camp III) weighed 9.9 pounds empty and 12.9 pounds full.
- Tom Hornbein, who had had trouble using Swiss oxygen masks on an expedition to Masherbrum, designed the team's oxygen masks.
- The oxygen masks were molded and manufactured by the Maytag Company of Newton, Iowa, makers of washing machines and other appliances, over two years – Fred Maytag, head of the company, had attended a talk Hornbein had given about his Masherbrum trip at Washington University in St. Louis, and became interested.
- 200 oxygen bottles were used on the ascent.
- Nearly 28,000 feet of 16mm Ektachrome Commercial film (mostly in 100-foot and 400-foot rolls) was exposed in the shooting of footage for the documentary film of the expedition.
- The film, Americans on Everest, was a National Geographic special airing in 1965. It was narrated by Orson Welles.
- Psychologist James T. Lester Jr. collected the men's dreams throughout the approach and summit attempts, approaching the men each morning at breakfast.
- One of Dr. Lester's statements about his research: "[It] is not that climbing insures a greater enjoyment of life, for climbers seem to have as much difficulty with that as any of us, but rather that many of the psychological qualities characterizing the man climbing a difficult mountain are qualities that could greatly enrich anyone's daily life."
- Total budget for the expedition was $403,307.
- In 2013 dollars, that's $3,034,305.26.
- The expedition rationed 10 tons of food, packed by Universal Services Inc. of Seattle.
- The food was packed in 416 boxes, each 28 inches by 16 inches by 12 inches, and weighing an average of 63 pounds.
- Each meal, packed into a ration for 19 team members, was an average weight of 20 pounds.
- The members of the American Everest Expedition used Mount Rainier for a training ground because it had all the features of a big Himalayan peak (seracs, glaciers, icefalls, etc.), doing a practice run in September 1962.
- The permit for the expedition cost $640.
- All members of the expedition were asked to loan $500 (about $3,800 in 2013 dollars) to the expedition, to be repaid if it ever made any money.
- Out of the 19 expedition team members, three were M.D.s, five were Ph.D.s, and five had master's degrees (and three of those were working towards Ph.D.s).
- All but four of the expedition members were married at the time, with a total of 26 children.
- Jim Whittaker picked up a rock from the summit, which he took home and had set into a gold-banded ring.
- Jim Whittaker's twin brother, Lou, was part of the American Everest Expedition team until he made a difficult decision not to go, a few weeks before the team was due to leave for Kathmandu in February 1963.
- Lou Whittaker's replacement on the team, Jake Breitenbach, was killed on March 23, 1963, by an ice wall that collapsed in the Khumbu Icefall. It was the team's second day out of Base Camp.
- The remaining members of the '63 expedition will gather in February 2013 at the American Alpine Club banquet in San Francisco: Jim Whittaker, Tom Hornbein, Norman Dyhrenfurth, Allen Auten, David Dingman, Maynard Miller, and Richard Pownall.
Those brave gentlemen are an inspiration to a lifelong outdoorsman like me. They set a high bar for all who follow them.
three chinese most likely reached the summit if everest in 1960
I met Willie Unsold in 1977 and was a guest in his home. What a wonderful man he was. I was sadden when his wife called me about his death. The world lost a great man.
Thanks, this is a really interesting lists of facts about a truly great expedition!
I'm wondering why you said only six people stood on the summit before, instead of nine – or did you mean six from the south side? As Steve mentions three members of a Chinese expedition, Wang Fu-zhou, Chu Yin-hua and Konbu, reached the summit from the north side in 1960.
Although doubts were cast about their ascent at the time because it sounded unlikely, the climbers were interviewed extensively later, and as I understand it their ascent is now generally accepted to be genuine.
This is an interesting list, thanks Brendan, but #17 is not accurate and thus not fair. There have been 17 ascents of the west ridge to the summit since 1963.
Not all used exactly the same line as the 1963 Americans, but they all climbed the west ridge and the 1979 Yugoslav ascent actually climbed the more difficult direct finish up the ridge that the 1963 team bypassed on the north. Only two of those 17 reached the ridge from the Tibet side, and that ascent included the first North American woman to summit, Sharon Wood. So another 10 have climbed the same, or a close variant, to the 1963 route.
None of this detracts in any way from the wonderful effort of the 1963 team.


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Woman lives months in home with no water, electric - and it belongs to the county
An Alaska woman spent Saturday packing her belongings after she was displaced from the north side home she bought on eBay after police told her the home is owned by the county.
"It was mine. I thought I'd never have to worry about me being on the streets again," said Letitia Melendrez while placing her things into a white van.
"This is my new house," she said looking at the van.
Melendrez, 52, lived in the home at 1111 N. Third Ave. since the beginning of May, after she traveled 3,700 miles from Alaska.
"A cop showed up (Friday) and said, ?What are you doing in this house.' I go, ?I own it.' He said, ?No you don't, '" Melendrez said Saturday afternoon.
The home is owned by the Vanderburgh County Commissioner's Office, but Melendrez said she purchased the home off eBay in April from a seller named "Brandon," with a username of "PremierRealEstateAssets," for $1,000, plus an additional $795 for closing fees.
She had been awaiting documents from "Brandon" that would show her ownership of the home.
A call from the Courier & Press to "Brandon" using a number provided by Melendrez was not returned Saturday. When dialed, the number, with an area code for Southeastern Wisconsin, went straight to a voice message system that stated the number was for Premiere Real Estate Assets.
She was never sent a key to the home and had to cut the padlocks to get inside when she arrived in Evansville around Mother's Day.
"This is like my gift to myself," she said.
Since May, she's lived in the home without water or power ? the house has no fuse box and is without an electric meter.
Friday morning, Angela Bullock, a local Realtor, drove by the home and called the police when she saw people inside. Bullock told investigators that she was interested in buying the home and said she knew that it had liens against it. The property is scheduled for auction Aug. 22, according to an Evansville Police Department incident report.
Melendrez said she explained the situation to police, providing them proof of her eBay purchase.
She wasn't immediately told to leave the home. She told police she'd be out of the county-owned home completely Tuesday.
Unable to find a motel that would accommodate her pet dog, she and her friend Allen Smith plan to camp out at Burdette Park for at least a week.
Since she moved in early May, she's had no county or real estate officials come by the property, she said.
Melendrez and Smith had been slowly cleaning up the home, which she was told had been empty more than 4 years.
"We were going to put all this money into and then," she said trailing off while inside the home.
In addition to keeping the yard and a neighboring empty lot mowed, they've discarded nearly two tons of trash and debris out of the home, which had fire damage, over the last few months and have put nearly $4,000 back into the property, including wood to cover all the windows of the home.
Since learning the home wasn't hers, they removed all of the wooden window covers, leaving the property open.
She said she's been in contact with the County Commissioners through a Realtor. She said there's a chance the home may end up being hers, but until she knows more, she'll be camping.
Calls made to Vanderburgh County Commissioner President Marsha Abell were not returned Saturday.
The home is approximately 2,336 square feet, according to the Vanderburgh County Assessor's Office. It has eight bedrooms and three bathrooms, Melendrez said.
There are $3,800 owed in taxes on the property, according to the Vanderburgh County Treasurer's Office.
"There were so many things about this house, and I liked it because it's mine. I liked the sound of that," she said.


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Random thoughts about things that make no sense to me:
School vouchers.
If we let kids haul taxpayers' money to whatever school they want, kids with involved, interested parents will get out of Dodge, assuming Dodge is one of the state's failing schools.
After the exodus, classrooms in failing schools will be populated solely by kids whose parents don't notice, or care, if they get an education.
Failing schools will only slump lower because their failure, despite the finger-pointing, doesn't stem from a teaching problem but a societal problem. If a kid's daily routine at home consists of being propped in front of a TV set with a bag of chips for dinner, you can hardly blame a teacher for his failure.
As my mom used to say, "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear."
Frankly, most of those who support vouchers don't give a hoot about failing schools or the kids who attend them. They're simply props for people whose support of vouchers stems from a desire to funnel money to religious schools.
Selling the state liquor stores.
Logically, it makes no sense to sell an asset that brings $500 million a year to the state coffers.
Frankly, I don't think most people care who owns the liquor stores. What state residents want is convenience. They want to buy a bottle of wine or a six-pack of beer where they buy their bread and milk. At the same cash register, at the same time. We don't have to privatize liquor sales to accomplish that.
To cloud the issue further, those debating the sale of the stores throw in concerns about under-age drinking and DUI. These are entirely different topics.
The issue at hand is whether the state should keep or sell a money-making operation. Do we want a wad of cash now or a steady income?
Think of it like one of those over-sized lottery checks. A big winner can take all the money now and live large for a while or invest in a plan that provides a comfortable income for life.
To me, it's a no-brainer.
Why would anyone pay $50 to $80 to listen to him rant on stage?
I ask this as someone who has watched every episode of "Two and a Half Men," most several times.
Comparing those shows from the early years to more recent ones provides fodder for an anti-drug commercial. Sheen these days could be a poster boy for an advertisement that cautions, "This is your face (and your brain) on drugs."
It's not pretty.
People paid between $28 and $55 for a 40-minute show highlighted by a "proper poof demonstration" and instructions on the correct procedure for doing a "fist pump."
You have to give Snooki credit, though. During her recent appearance at Penn State York, she reportedly said, "I'm not an artist. I don't really have talent."
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It would be the first denomination in Britain perhaps. Same-sex weddings are officiated in the national churches of Denmark and Sweden – and they are Lutheran.
Aren't the Unitarians and Quakers denominations? If that is the case, the Methodists won't be fhe first which makes the statement in the article misleading.
Remember that the Methodists voted for Church union with the Anglicans but were jilted at the altar when the Anglicans became sniffy at the idea of a union with the Methodists. Would the possible change by the Methodists on their Churches teaching make a union in the future more or less likely?
Could it be this religious faction is more concerned about alienating tolerant sections of society and damaging further recruitment into their cult.
Yup, we got married in Minnesota by a friend who is a Lutheran pastor. He had done 3 equal marriages in his church and has no problem doing them. The Lutheran Church seems pretty o.k.
They won't even be the first denomination in the UK to endorse marriage equality since, as you pointed out, the Quakers have already done so. World-wide a number of other denominations have endorsed full marriage equality including the national church of Sweden and the United Church of Christ in the US.
Also, don't forget an important one, the Episcopalian branch of the Anglican Church in America. Clergy are free to marry a gay couple if they wish. The UK Anglican church will have to do a lot better than just offering blessing to remain relevant.
The Presbyterian USA denomination has the same policy as the Episcopal Church USA. The UCC (United Church of Christ) has actually endorsed full marriage equality nationwide at the denominational level. No other Christian denomination in America has gone that far.
Since when were the Quakers not Christian? They were fighting for same-sex marriage before S'onewall were!
Exactly. If you are going to write about religion, it might help to get your facts right. It would have startled George Fox (oh, for God's sake, Google the name) to be informed he wasn't a Christian.
Still, for those who are pleased to see the grip of Christianity on this country getting loosened, Mr McCormick's ignorance will not be entirely unpleasing.
It really isn't right to assume that Quakers are "Christian", even though the Society of Friends did originate as a Christian sect.Many UK Quakers don't see them selves as Christian, in the sense of believing in the Trinity, a particular divinity of Jesus, or any of the specific Christian rituals (such as Mass/Communion). A fair number would identify themselves as members of other faiths, or none.
It's less true of Quakers in the USA, I understand, some of whom are much closer to a mainstream Christian tradition.
IN the USA about 1000 Methodist ministers last summer petitioned their national body to allow gays to marry in the church. It didnt pass but as with the Evan Lutherans and Presbyterian USA it took both of them several votes to have it happen
And since DC passed marriage a few years ago, about 6 Methodist churches in the DC area have been doing marriage ceremoneis for gays.
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Next up: Tuesday at No. 2 St. Vincent-St. Mary, Friday vs. Trinity.
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Comment: The Bees went 2-1 during their holiday trip to Florida. They nearly played Shaker Heights, which happens Friday in Greater Cleveland Conference action.
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Comment: With senior guard Andrew Valeri back in the fold the last few weeks, Mentor is coming into form. The Cardinals got a 30-point game from 6-2 sophomore guard Caden Kryz in a Dec. 30 win at the Arby's Classic.
Next up: Tuesday at Solon, Friday vs. Elyria.
12, Walsh Jesuit (6-1, 12 LW)
Comment: If anything, the Warriors have been consistent. They are just one half of basketball against Archbishop Hoban from being unbeaten. Mitch Peterson has been on a tear. In his last three games, the 6-5 senior averaged 24.7 points, 9.0 rebounds and 3.0 steals.
Next up: Friday at Padua, Saturday vs. Western Reserve Academy.
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Comment: The Bearcats are back. At least in the sense that we had them as a top-five preseason team. Pete Priola's club earned its biggest win of the season Sunday against Beachwood as 6-7 senior forward Lamont Rhodes led a balanced attack.
Next up: Friday at Shaw.
14, North Olmsted (7-1, 14 LW)
Comment: The Eagles had more than a week off since their close loss at Lorain. With a chance to soak in that nonleague clash, Jason Frolo's bunch has a busy week in the Southwestern Conference with defending champ Berea-Midpark and second-place Olmsted Falls. The Bulldogs are a game back.
Next up: Tuesday vs. Berea-Midpark, Friday at Olmsted Falls, Saturday vs. Valley Forge.
15, Benedictine (5-2, 16 LW)
Comment: The Bengals have been in four straight close games, none bigger than their 73-69 home win last week against No. 8 Central Catholic. Their league schedule is a tough one, which includes sixth-ranked Hoban, No. 12 Walsh Jesuit and NDCL and Lake Catholic, which have made Top 25 appearances.
Next up: Friday at NDCL.
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Comment: Junior Tyshaun Howard's career-high 26 points Sunday not only gave Markell Johnson a rest but helped the Scarabs snap a three-game skid.
Next up: Friday at Cleveland JFK.
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Comment: T.J. Kwasniak's outfit has won five in a row.
Next up: Friday vs. Warren JFK, Saturday vs. No. 5 St. Edward.
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Comment: For a half, it appeared the Tigers could make a considerable leap with their first-half performance against No. 2 St. Vincent-St. Mary. The end result keeps them right where they were. This squad has played its last three games without senior forward Malik Smith, out with a toe injury.
Next up: Friday at Maple Heights, Saturday at Warren Harding.
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Comment: Steve Mehalik's Bees are playing as well as the coach could ask. Lone loss was by one point on the road at Strongsville. Looking ahead to Friday's home game with Stow, the Bulldogs are a game behind Brecksville in the Suburban League National Division standings.
Next up: Tuesday at Wadsworth, Friday vs. No. 23 Stow, Saturday vs. Padua.
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Comment: Bryce Harvey and Co. are playing well. The senior guard scored 26 last week, and the Indians nearly broke the century mark at Cloverleaf.
Next up: Tuesday at Aurora, Friday vs. Kent Roosevelt.
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Next up: Friday at No. 4 Lorain, Saturday vs. Rhodes.
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Comment: The Panthers can quickly put their loss to Warrensville Heights behind them. Tuesday's Great Lakes Conference game at Rocky River is for first place.
Next up: Tuesday at Rocky River, Friday vs. Bay, Saturday at Brookside.
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Comment: The Bulldogs have won three straight since a two-point loss at Nordonia, which is why they trail Brecksville by a game in the Suburban League.
Next up: Tuesday at Cuyahoga Falls, Friday at No. 19 Brecksville, Saturday at Firestone.
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Comment: The Middies have wind in their sails with four straight wins, including the last three against Olmsted Falls, Elyria and Strongsville. A preseason favorite in the SWC, they are starting to look the part for coach Troy DiFranco.
Next up: Tuesday at Lakewood, Friday at Avon Lake.
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Next up: Tuesday at Akron East.
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