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Found 18376 papers in total
A decision support system for the electrical power districting problem
2003,
Many national electricity industries around the globe are being restructured from...
Dynamic programming and hill-climbing techniques for constrained two-dimensional cutting stock problems
2004,
In this paper we propose an algorithm for the constrained two-dimensional cutting...
Sufficient conditions for the integer round-up property to be violated for the linear cutting stock problem
2004,
The integer round-up property of the linear cutting stock problem is investigated. An...
Capacity constrained transit assignment with common lines
2003,
This paper proposes the use of absorbing Markov chains to solve the capacity...
Flaming in electronic communication
2004,
Communication through computer networks, electronic salons, and virtual communities...
A multiple criteria decision method analysis of agricultural risk aversion
2003,
In modelling farm systems it is widely accepted that risk plays a central role....
A decision support system for farm planning using AgriSupport II
2003,
The farm planning problem is a critical aspect in the design of decision support...
Efficient heuristics for the heterogeneous fleet multitrip vehicle routing problem with application to a large-scale real case
2002,
The basic Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) consists of computing a set of trips of...
New savings based algorithms for time constrained pickup and delivery of full truckloads
2003,
In this paper we deal with the pickup and delivery of full truckloads under time...
Genetic local search with distance preserving recombination operator for a vehicle routing problem
2003,
The paper describes a systematic adaptation of the genetic local search algorithm to a...
Real-time vehicle routing: Solution concepts, algorithms and parallel computing strategies
2003,
In real-time fleet management, vehicle routes are built in an on-going fashion as...
Local search with annealing-like restarts to solve the vehicle routing problem with time windows
2003,
In this paper, we propose a metaheuristic based on annealing-like restarts to...
A heuristic transporter routing model for manufacturing facility design
2004,
In this study, a transporter routing problem is analyzed and adapted for use in...
Nurst rostering problems – a bibliographic survey
2003,
Hospitals need to repeatedly product duty rosters for its nursing staff. The good...
Coordinated ordering decisions for short life cycle products with uncertainty in delivery time and demand
2003,
We consider a two-party system, in which the buyer orders a product from the supplier,...
Strategic commitment to price to stimulate downstream innovation in a supply chain
2003,
It is generally in a firm's interest for its supply chain partners to invest in...
Competitive location, production, and market selection
2003,
This paper investigates how firms should select their production sites, capacities and...
A fuzzy echelon approach for inventory management in supply chains
2003,
This paper presents a methodology to define a supply chain (SC) inventory management...
An enhanced dynasearch neighborhood for the single-machine total weighted tardiness scheduling problem
2004,
Based on the work by Congram, Potts and Van de Velde, we develop for the...
When greediness fails: examples from stochastic scheduling
2003,
The purpose of this paper is to present examples for the sometimes surprisingly...
An improved branch and bound algorithm for single machine scheduling with deadlines to minimize total weighted completion time
2003,
We consider a scheduling problem in which n jobs with distinct deadlines are to be...
Multifunction radar: task scheduling
2002,
Multifunction radar has to perform several types of tasks. Some of them are...
On-line scheduling a batch processing system to minimize total weighted job completion time
2004,
Scheduling a batch processing system has been extensively studied in the last decade....
Flow shop scheduling problems under machine-dependent precedence constraints
2004,
The paper considers the flow shop scheduling problems to minimize the makespan,...
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