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Found 17295 papers in total
A quintet of queueing quirks
2000,
With its probabilistic roots, queueing theory offers a promising hunting ground for...
MCDA: Theory, practice and the future
1999,
We offer thoughts on issues and directions in multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA)...
Rethinking value elicitation for personal consequential decisions
1999,
The application of multiattribute decision analysis to personal consequential decision...
Evolution of multi-criteria analysis: A scientometric analysis
1999,
The field of multi-criteria analysis has known very important developments during the...
The assignment of scores for output-based research funding
1999,
This paper considers the assignment of scores to research output items, such as...
A knowledge-based system for identifying potential project risks
1998,
This paper presents an integrated knowledge-based system (KBS) that assists project...
Open shop scheduling with makespan and total completion time criteria
2000,
In this paper we study the two machine open shop scheduling problem with a...
A fuzzy approach to the multiobjective transportation problem
2000,
The aim of this paper is to present a fuzzy compromise programming approach to...
An heuristic algorithm for a multi-product, single machine capacitated production scheduling problem
2000,
This paper develops a technique for solving a capacitated production scheduling...
An exploratory hazard-based analysis of highway incident duration
2000,
The statistical analysis of highway incident duration has become an increasingly...
Minimizing mean flowtime in a two-machine flowshop with sequence-independent setup times
2000,
This paper addresses the two-machine flowshop problem to minimize mean flowtime where...
A new 3-D pursuit-evasion differential game between two bank-to-turn airborne vehicles
1999,
The differential game of a 3-D encounter between a fast bank-to-turn pursuer (with...
Global optimization by Darwin and Boltzmann mixed strategy
2000,
This paper presents a Darwin and Boltzmann mixed strategy to solve the global...
A time–cost optimization of the national postal distribution network
1999,
The postal distribution network in the Czech Republic consists actually of 69 local...
An O(n2) algorithm for a controllable machine scheduling problem
1999,
A single-machine scheduling problem with controllable processing times is discussed in...
Optimization of template-driven scheduling mechanisms: Regularity measures and computational techniques
1999,
Template-driven scheduling mechanisms provide a simple and robust scheme for sharing a...
Cyclic scheduling in 3-machine robotic flow shops
1999,
We consider a robotic flow shop model in which a single robot is responsible for the...
Pooling in multi-location periodic inventory distribution systems
1999,
Risk pooling through lateral transshipment in inventory distribution systems is an...
Data quality in neural network models: Effect of error rate and magnitude of error on predictive accuracy
1999,
Neural networks have been applied in a wide variety of business domains. Although...
Comparing backpropagation with a genetic algorithm for neural network training
1999,
This article shows that the use of a genetic algorithm can provide better results for...
Using operational planning horizons for determining setup changes
1998,
We consider operational planning horizons required for managing shop floor resources....
Efficient workforce scheduling for a serial processing environment: A case study at Minneapolis Star Tribune
1999,
This paper reports work done at Star Tribune , a leading metropolitan daily newspaper...
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