Nicodemi sequences of operators between spaces of multilinear mappings

We obtain results on three aspects of Nicodemi extensions of multilinear mappings between Banach spaces: (i) subspace invariance, (ii) the norms of the extension operators, (iii) when Aron–Berner extensions are Nicodemi extensions.     

A comparison of three metaheuristics for the workover rig routing problem

The workover rig routing problem (WRRP) is a variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW) and arises in the operations of onshore oil fields. In this problem, a set of workover rigs located at different positions must service oil wells requesting maintenance as soon as possible. When a well requires maintenance, its production is reduced or stopped for safety reasons and some workover rig must service it within a given deadline. It is therefore important to service the wells in a timely fashion in order to minimize the production loss. Whereas for classical VRPTWs the objective is to minimize route length, in the WRRP the objective is to minimize the total lost production, equal to the sum of arrival times at the wells, multiplied by production loss rates. The WRRP generalizes the Delivery Man Problem with Time Windows by considering multiple open vehicle routes and multiple depots. This paper compares three metaheuristics for the WRRP: an iterated local search, a clustering search, and an Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search (ALNS). All approaches, in particular ALNS, have yielded good solutions for instances derived from a real-life setting.     

Complete latticeability in vector-valued sequence spaces

Using a technique due to Jiménez–Rodríguez, first we prove the complete latticeability of the set of disjoint non-norm null weakly null sequences and of the set of disjoint non-norm null regular-polynomially null sequences in Banach lattices. Then we apply the mother vector technique to prove the complete latticeability of ${\lambda }_{\pi }(E)\setminus {\lambda }_s(E)$, which implies the complete latticeability of $({\ell }_p{\widehat{\otimes }}_{|\pi |}E)\setminus ({\ell }_p{\widehat{\otimes }}_{\pi }E)$, where E is a Banach lattice and .