Internationalization of markets and climate change introduce multifaceted challenges for
modern supply chain (SC) management in the today's digitalisation era. On the other hand …

Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are used for the internal and external transport of
materials. Traditionally, AGVs were mostly used at manufacturing systems. Currently, AGVs …

Manufacturing flexibility improves a firm's ability to react in timely manner to customer
demands and to increase production system productivity without incurring excessive costs …

In this paper, we present an algorithm for decentralized control of multiple automated guided
vehicles performing transportation tasks within industrial and warehousing environments. By …

This paper deals with dispatching systems in open-pit mines. It illustrates the different
strategies that exist for solving the dispatching problem and analyses the advantages and …

In most manufacturing and distribution systems, semi‐finished jobs are transferred from one
processing facility to another by transporters such as automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and …

Carsharing has been considered as an effective means to increase mobility and reduce
personal vehicle usage and related carbon emissions. In this paper, we consider problems …

This paper considers together machine scheduling and finished product delivery. In
particular, it addresses the situation in which jobs require different amounts of storage space …

In real manufacturing environments, the control of system elements such as automated
guided vehicles has some difficulties when planning operations dynamically. Multi agent …

Scheduling is concerned with allocating limited resources to tasks to optimize certain
objective functions. Due to the popularity of the Total Quality Management concept, on-time …