Operations research (OR) has been at the core of decision making since World War II, and
today, business interactions on different platforms have changed business dynamics …

Modern steel production centers on the hot rolling mill as a key component. Scheduling for
hot rolling mills is a challenging problem that has fascinated optimization researchers and …

Scheduling and multicriteria optimisation theory have been subject, separately, to numerous
studies. Since the last twenty years, multicriteria scheduling problems have been subject to …

Obtaining economic and reliable schedules constitutes the core of excellence in customer
service and of efficiency in manufacturing operations. While few areas have been more …

In many production processes real time information may be obtained from process control
computers and other monitoring systems, but most existing scheduling models are unable to …

This study deepens our knowledge of organisational routines and activities in the innovation
process of low-and medium-technology (LMT) industries. To accomplish this, it explores how …

This paper addresses a production planning problem in the steel industry, specifically
focusing on determining production quantities and product-to-order assignment considering …

We study an integrated charge batching and casting width selection problem arising in the
continuous casting operation of the steelmaking process at Shanghai, China based …

Infusion centers are experiencing greater demand, resulting in long patient wait times. The
duration of chemotherapy treatment sessions often varies, and this uncertainty also …

This paper addresses a hot-rolling scheduling problem from compact strip production
processes. At first, a mathematical model that consists of two coupled sub-problems is …