Environmental legislation and customer expectations increasingly force manufacturers to take recovery of used products into account in their production and inventory management. One of the areas concerned is production planning with returned products remanufacturing. In this paper, we discuss...

In this paper, we investigate a manpower planning problem with single employee type over a long planning horizon. The dynamic demand for manpower must be fulfilled by allocating enough number of employees and each employee has a minimal employment period. A cost objective is concerned where the...

Optimal release time determination is a typical application of software reliability models. In this decision process, reliability and cost are the two important dimensions that are generally considered. Most existing research formulates this decision process as single-objective optimization...