Keyword: combinatorial optimization

Found 3184 papers in total
Planning performance based contracts considering reliability and uncertain system usage
2012,
This paper investigates a novel quantitative approach for planning and contracting...
The economics of a closed‐loop supply chain with remanufacturing
2012,
This study deals with joint decisions on pricing and production lot‐sizing in a...
A revenue management approach to address a truck rental problem
2012,
This paper describes an application of revenue management techniques and policies in...
A smuggling game with asymmetrical information of players
2012,
This paper deals with a smuggling game with multiple stages. Customs is allowed to...
An exact method for minimizing the total treatment time in intensity‐modulated radiotherapy
2012,
In this paper, we solve a combinatorial optimization problem that arises from the...
Supplier selection using integrated multi‐criteria decision‐making methodology
2012,
Selecting the right suppliers significantly reduces the purchasing cost and improves...
Integrating lateral transshipment to aggregate production-distribution planning considering time value of money and exchange rate
2012,
This study investigates on integration of lateral transshipment to aggregate...
Minimising tool switching and indexing times by ant colony optimisation in automatic machining centres
2012,
This paper proposes an ant algorithm to minimise the total summation of tool switching...
Heuristic approach for balanced allocation problem in logistics: a comparative study
2012,
The core issue of this paper is efficient balancing of allocation of customers among...
EPQ models for deteriorating items with stock‐dependent production rate and time‐dependent demand having three‐parameter Weibull decay
2012,
In this paper, we develop and analyse an inventory model for deteriorating items with...
Non-linear programming model for cost minimisation in a supply chain, including non-quality and inspection costs
2012,
Satisfaction of customers' quality expectations is a fundamental attribute for any...
A branch and bound and parallel genetic algorithm for the job shop scheduling problem with blocking
2012,
In this paper, we study the job shop scheduling problem with blocking where the...
Genetic algorithm for chance constrained reliability stochastic optimisation problems
2012,
This paper addresses the chance constrained reliability stochastic optimisation...
Finding Pareto optima for maximum tardiness, maximum earliness and number of tardy jobs
2012,
Just‐in‐time JIT (Just In Time) is an important procedure in...
Analysis of fill rate in general periodic review two‐stage inventory systems
2012,
For echelon base‐stock policies, Zhang et al. (2010) derive the fill...
A two‐warehouse EOQ model with two‐level delay in payment
2012,
This paper deals with a two‐warehouse inventory policy with continuous release...
Optimal dispatching strategies for emergency vehicles to increase patient survivability
2012,
A major focus of emergency medical service (EMS) systems is to save lives...
Large‐Scale Joint Price‐Inventory Decision Problems, Under Resource Limitation and a Discrete Price Set
2012,
This article addresses a generalization of the capacitated lot‐size problem...
Prediction of the Amount of Wood Using Neural Networks
2012,
Coniferous trees such as eucalyptus used to be preferred for papermaking because the...
Min‐cost multiflows in node‐capacitated undirected networks
2012,
We consider an undirected graph G =( VG , EG ) with a set T ⊆ VG of terminals,...
Approximation schemes for two‐machine flow shop scheduling with two agents
2012,
In this paper we consider two‐machine flow shop scheduling with two agents. Two...
Long cycles in hypercubes with optimal number of faulty vertices
2012,
Let f ( n ) be the maximum integer such that for every set F of at most f ( n )...
On L(2,1)‐labeling of generalized Petersen graphs
2012,
A variation of the classical channel assignment problem is to assign a radio channel...
Exact combinatorial algorithms and experiments for finding maximum k‐plexes
2012,
We propose new practical algorithms to find maximum‐cardinality k...
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