Country: Netherlands

Found 18376 papers in total
A systems approach for the estimation of the effects of land consolidation projects (LCPs): a model and its application
2001,
Land consolidation projects (LCPs) are costly rural development actions that are often...
Micro- and macro-level approaches to modelling decision making
2001,
Farm households form a significant unit of study for the rural policy analyst as it is...
Continued innovation in a Cambodian rice-based farming system: Farmer testing and recombination of new elements
2001,
Rice-based farming systems in Cambodia incorporate rainfed lowland rice, dry season...
Simulation of water harvesting potential in rainfed ricelands using water balance model
2001,
Using daily water balance simulation in rainfed ricelands, the study estimates the...
Robust parameter settings of evolutionary algorithms for the optimisation of agricultural systems models
2001,
Numerical optimisation methods are being more commonly applied to agricultural systems...
Product due date assignment for complex assemblies
2002,
A method is described to assign product due dates for multistage assemblies with...
A mathematical programming model for improvement planning in a semi-subsistence farm
2001,
In some semi-subsistence agriculture systems, long fallows have traditionally been...
Parallel machine scheduling to minimize total tardiness
2002,
This paper addresses, using an exact method, the identical parallel machine scheduling...
Systems approaches for the design of sustainable agro-ecosystems
2001,
The complexity of agricultural systems and the need to fulfil multiple objectives in...
New heuristics to minimize total completion time in m-machine flowshops
2002,
We consider the m -machine permutation flowshop with the objective of minimizing total...
Approaches to modular model development
2001,
One of the main goals of the International Consortium for Agricultural Systems...
A list-based threshold accepting method for job shop scheduling problems
2002,
Process plants typically produce a family of related products that require similar...
Increasing profits and reducing risks in crop production using participatory systems simulation approaches
2001,
The development of cropping systems simulation capabilities world-wide combined with...
Determining optimum genetic algorithm parameters for scheduling the manufacturing and assembly of complex products
2002,
A Genetic Algorithm-based Scheduling Tool has been developed for the scheduling of...
Advances in farming systems analysis and intervention
2001,
In this paper, we recognize two key components of farming systems, namely the...
Integrated crop–livestock simulation models for scenario analysis and impact assessment
2001,
Despite the fact that many smallholder farming systems in developing countries revolve...
Managing forest biodiversity: A zero–one goal programming approach
2001,
A biodiversity characterisation based on forest ecology considerations is proposed. A...
An operations research approach to the problem of the sugarcane selection
2001,
Selection for superior clones is the most important aspect of sugarcane improvement...
Cane railway scheduling via constraint logic programming: Labelling order and constraints in a real-life application
2001,
In Australia, cane transport is the largest unit cost in the manufacturing of raw...
A column generation approach to delivery planning over time with inhomogeneous service providers and service interval constraints
2001,
We consider a problem of delivery planning over multiple time periods. Deliveries must...
On the convergence of tabu search
2001,
The Tabu Search (TS) meta-heuristic has proved highly successful for solving...
The parallel variable neighborhood search for the p-median problem
2002,
The Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) is a recent metaheuristic that combines series...
Entropy of discrete Choquet capacities
2002,
We introduce a measure of entropy for any discrete Choquet capacity and we interpret...
Network cost minimization using threshold-based discounting
2002,
A network design problem in which every pair of nodes can communicate directly is...
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