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Found 17295 papers in total
An exact calculation of the cycle service level in a generalized periodic review system
2006,
This paper is focused on the exact calculation of the cycle service level for a...
Do we need yet another office PC upgrade? – OR to determine office PC upgrade requirements
2001,
Currently, large costs are incurred by organisations on regular upgrades of office...
The adoption of inventory postponement and speculation: An empirical assessment of oligopolistic Internet retailers
2006,
Unlike traditional retailers, which use inventory speculation for all their...
Impact of cross-docking on inventory in a decentralized retail supply chain
2006,
Cross-docking can reduce inventory in a retail supply chain but in certain situations...
Choosing best alliance partners and allocating optimal alliance resources using the fuzzy multi-objective dummy programming model
2006,
Synergy effects are the motives to enter into strategic alliances; however due to lack...
Knowledge management tools adoption and knowledge workers' performance
2007,
In contemporary enterprises, knowledge workers have to rely on knowledge management...
Solving the uncapacitated facility location problem using tabu search
2006,
A tabu search heuristic procedure is developed to solve the uncapacitated facility...
A simple filter-and-fan approach to the facility location problem
2006,
The design of effective neighborhood search procedures is a primary issue for the...
Extensions to emergency vehicle location models
2006,
This paper is concerned with extending models for the maximal covering location...
Bounds for the single source modular capacitated plant location problem
2006,
In this paper, we propose a discrete location problem, which we call the Single Source...
Exact procedures for solving the discrete ordered median problem
2006,
The discrete ordered median problem (DOMP) integrates classical discrete location...
Euclidean push–pull partial covering problems
2006,
This paper considers a bicriteria model to locate a semi-obnoxious facility within a...
An enumeration algorithm for solving the fleet management problem in underground mines
2006,
This paper presents an enumeration algorithm based on dynamic programming for...
Solving the facility and layout and location problem by ant-colony optimization–meta-heuristic
2006,
This paper describes a heuristic algorithm for solving the plant/facility location...
A location model with preference for variety
2006,
We propose a new location model where consumers are allowed to make multiple purchases...
A valuation model for cut diamonds
2005,
Cut diamonds are hard to value given the number and type of properties used in price...
Guided construction search metaheuristics for the capacitated p-median problem with single source constraint
2007,
In the capacitated p-median problem with single source constraint, also known as the...
The multiple server location problem
2007,
In this paper, we introduce the Multiple Server location problem. A given number of...
Lions in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park: modelling the effect of human-caused mortality
2005,
An age-structured demographic matrix model is developed to determine the long-term...
Scheduling fixtures for Basketball New Zealand
2006,
This paper describes the problem faced every year by Basketball New Zealand in...
A constraint programming approach to the multiple-venue, sport-scheduling problem
2006,
In this paper, we consider the problem of scheduling sports competitions over several...
Using principal components in a proportional hazards model with applications in condition-based maintenance
2006,
This paper proposes the application of a principal components proportional hazards...
Scheduling the professional soccer leagues of Austria and Germany
2006,
Generating a regular season schedule is a demanding task for any sports league. In...
Repair strategies in an uncertain environment: Markov decision process approach
2006,
This paper deals with repair strategies that maximize the time until a catastrophic...
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