It is well known that scheduling jobs according to the Shortest-Remaining-Processing-Time (SRPT) policy is optimal for … minimizing mean response time in a single-server system with online arrivals. Unfortunately, SRPT scheduling requires users to … approach for inducing the informed users into self- scheduling themselves according to (an approximation of) SRPT while not …

In this thesis, we study the repair shop scheduling problem(repair-to-stock) and the production/inventory system … pricing and production scheduling problem(make-to-stock). For both types of problems, we compare the performance of different … scheduling policies. For the make-to-stock type problem, we also study the performance of different pricing strategies. The …

innovation and external collaboration and between future product innovation and past abandonment in small and medium sized firms … abandonment experiences reported higher levels of new product introduction than firms that did not have such experience … had previously experienced abandonment of a product innovation than firms without external collaboration. Implications …

innovation and past abandonment in small and medium sized firms. Our findings from 449 manufacturing firms indicated firms that … product introduction than firms without any external collaboration. Further, firms with past abandonment experiences reported … with external collaboration were more likely to introduce new products even if they had previously experienced abandonment …

Decommissioning and abandonment is a relevant issue in the petroleum industrybecause of the complex operations involved …

sequencing and scheduling decisions may be performed more efficiently. Resource aggregation can potentially and significantly … machine scheduling environment and for any combination of distinct and indistinct resources. A number of alternative measures …

scheduling. From an extensive numerical investigation, the benefits achieved by the application of this methodology are detailed. …