Country: United Kingdom

Found 17295 papers in total
Sourcing/contracting strategy selection
1990,
The strategy combination of single sourcing and long-term contracts is rapidly...
OR methodology and the learning cycle
1990,
There is a strong parallel between the methodologies of operational research and...
‘One per desk?’
1990,
Checkland’s Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) is a means of applying structure to...
A partitioned cutting-stock problem applied in the meat industry
1990,
The paper reports on a linear programming application in the meat industry. The...
Strategic telecommunications planning-A descriptive model
1990,
This study develops a conceptual model for strategic telecommunications planning and...
Interactive fuzzy programming with preference criteria in multiobjective decision-making
1991,
This paper presents a methodology for solving a decision-making problem involving a...
A decision making model for multi-attribute problems incorporating uncertainty and bias measures
1991,
Although a particular attribute, in isolation, may be considered as very important, it...
Using simulation to solve design and operational problems
1990,
One of the most challenging problems facing industrial engineers concerns the design...
A new heuristic for the fleet size and mix vehicle routing problem
1991,
In this paper the authors address the problem of simultaneously selecting the...
A ‘fuzzy’ approach to facilities lay-out planning
1991,
Various approaches to and techniques for facilities lay-out problems are reviewed and...
A hybrid heuristic for the facilities layout problem
1991,
This paper presents a heuristic procedure for solving the facilities layout problem....
A new heuristic for the linear placement problem
1991,
The linear placement problem (LPP) arises when allocating facilities to sites on a...
Optimal structural standardization
1990,
The problem of optimal structural design is formulated as an assortment problem taking...
Optimal I-section of an elastic arch under stability constraints
1990,
The optimal I-section dimensions of a prismatic circular arch loaded by uniform radial...
The zone hopping problem
1991,
In the zone hopping problem, n packages are to be moved by common carrier from...
An efficient four-phase heuristic for the generalized orienteering problem
1991,
Orienteering is a sport in which a competitor constructs a path from a start to a...
A bibliography on the applications of mathematical programming multiple-objective methods
1990,
This paper gives a bibliography on applications of multiple-objective methods which...
Augment-insert algorithms for the capacitated arc routing problem
1991,
The capacitated arc routing problem (CARP) is a generalization of the rural postman...
Recursive forecasting, smoothing and seasonal adjustment of non-stationary environmental data
1991,
The paper presents a unified fully recursive approach to the modelling, forecasting...
SmartSim: An object oriented simulation program generator for manufacturing systems
1990,
SmartSim is a simulation environment that can be used by manufacturing engineers as a...
Small-sample autocorrelation structure for long-memory time series
1990,
This paper provides results on the behaviour of the sample autocorrelation function...
Exponential smoothing: Estimation by maximum likelihood
1990,
In this paper several forecasting methods based on exponential
Beyond a system of systems methodologies
1990,
This paper describes a research programme which used the idea that there is a...
Stimulating the demand for operational research
1990,
The 1990-91 president of the Operational Research OR Society (UK) summed up his...
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