This paper discusses the development of a heuristic methodology to generate salary merit increases and to schedule these salary actions along a specified planning horizon. The heuristic approach consists of two procedures, referred to as Heuristic Procedure 1 and Heuristic Procedure 2. For a...

This paper describes a new heuristic, the Revised Hillier procedure, for solving the facilities layout problem. It incorporates the effective features of the well-known Hillier procedure in combination with 3-way and 4-way exchanges to extend the neighborhood over which the search for a solution...

This paper addresses the problem of n jobs to be scheduled on a single machine in such a way that flow time variation is minimized. When the measure of variation is total absolute difference of completion times (TADC) the problem is shown to be quite simple. Sufficient conditions are shown for...