Traditional production systems have shifted from being single-site to decentralized multisite
systems due to globalization. The Flow Shop scheduling problem has become a pioneer in …

Production planning and scheduling are generally treated sequentially. Scheduling largely
depends on the production quantities computed at the production planning level. Ignoring …

Most of the discrete optimization techniques based on evolutionary computing did not
deploy and involve the actual geometrical structure of objective function in the process of …

Abstract Information sharing has been regarded as a major way to promote collaboration or
to optimize overall supply chain performance. Most of the literature has focused on unilateral …

This work is focused on the workforce scheduling problem, investigating how the ergonomic
exposure of a worker may affect the results of workforce allocation and the relative impact on …

The re-entrant flow shop scheduling problem (RFSP) is regarded as a NP-hard problem and
attracted the attention of both researchers and industry. Current approach attempts to …

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) aims at finding the shortest trip for a salesman, who
has to visit each of the locations from a given set exactly once, starting and ending at the …

The present work addresses the problem of real time workforce scheduling in assembly
lines where the number of operators is less to the number of workstations. The problem is …

This paper presents a comparative study that uses simulation to investigate the performance
of different layout designs with respect to different levels of model and head count variability …

Modern goals of supply chain management (SCM) are related to the integration of logistic
features with customers and product management, the so called value chain management …