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Found 17295 papers in total
Assessing and managing important risks
1999,
A common problem in project risk management processes is the need to determine the...
LP-based heuristics for scheduling chemical batch processes
2000,
A mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model for scheduling chemical batch...
Applying version management of object-oriented database technology in reactive scheduling
2000,
The focal points of reactive scheduling are to resolve the impact of emergent and...
Performance of decomposition procedures for job shop scheduling problems with bottleneck machines
2000,
Decomposition procedures for job shop scheduling problems, such as the shifting...
A fuzzy set approach to activity scheduling for product development
1999,
Industries need to effectively manage their product development processes to reduce...
A pseudo-random number generator for personal computers
1999,
The paper contains a translation of a Russian note, together with several remarks on...
A behavioral approach to feedback loop dominance analysis
1999,
Feedback loop dominance is a crticial tool in explaining how structure drives...
Friendly amendment: A commentary on Doyle and Ford’s proposed re-definition of ‘mental model’
1999,
Some amendments are proposed to a recent redefinition of ‘mental model’...
Perfect simulation of some point processes for the impatient user
1999,
Recently Propp and Wilson have proposed an algorithm, called coupling from the past...
Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation of the distribution of some perpetuities
1999,
We study the present value Z ∞ = ∫ ∞ 0 e −X t− dY t...
Asymptotic properties of an estimator in errors-in-variables models in the presence of validation data
1999,
Structural errors-in-variables models with dependent spatial observations are studied....
Tail probabilities for non-standard risk and queueing processes with subexponential jumps
1999,
A well-known result on the distribution tail of the maximum of a random walk with...
Theory of constraints in a service application: The Swine graphics case
2000,
This article presents a case study to examine a company that has implemented all three...
Using linear programming to simulate service engineers
1999,
This paper describes the use of a network flow model to simulate a proposed spatial...
A stochastic discounting model arising in competing risks management
1999,
Stochastic discounting models have been proved very important for decision making...
A study of vehicle routing problems with load-balancing
1999,
In a modern business environment, employees are a key resource to a company. Hence,...
A cluster insertion heuristic for single and multiple depot vehicle routing problems with backhauling
1999,
We investigate an extension to the classical insertion-based heuristic for the vehicle...
Branch-and-price algorithm for a multicast routing problem
1999,
This paper considers a multicast routing problem to find the minimum cost tree where...
Diet planning for humans using mixed-integer linear programming
1993,
Human diet planning is generally carried out by selecting the food items or groups of...
Integrating the use of linear and dynamic programming methods for dairy cow diet formulation
1999,
Despite many refinements that have been made to the basic Linear Programming model...
Neutral networks for cost estimation: Simulations and pilot application
2000,
Neural networks in a multilayer perceptron architecture are able to classify data and...
Manufacturer selection and price negotiation for competitive wholesale distribution operations
1999,
This paper considers a new class of problems arising in the distribution side of...
The impact of routing and storage policies on warehouse efficiency
1999,
Order picking, the activity by which a number of goods are retrieved from a...
Modelling the consequences of a strategic supply chain initiative of an automotive aftermarket operation
1999,
Describes the use of a decision support system (DSS) in part of a strategic supply...
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