To build a cooperative logistics network covering multiple enterprises, a planning method that can build a long-distance transportation network is required. Many strict constraints...
The ATLAS Collaboration[1] has been preparing for Large Hadron Collider (LHC) running for more than 20 years. By summer of 2007 we expect the first colliding beams of protons and...
Motivated by an underground mining operation at Kiruna, Sweden, we formulate a mixed integer program to schedule iron ore production over multiple time periods. Our optimization m...
The paper proposes a preventive maintenance (PM) planning model for the performance improvement of cellular manufacturing systems (CMS) in terms of machine reliability, and resour...
Classical vehicle routing problems typically do not consider the impact of delivery price on the demand for delivery services. Existing models seek the minimum sum of tour lengths...