The eastern enlargement of the European Union has prompted heated debates about social dumping related to labour standards and industrial relations. Capital mobility is seen as a crucial social dumping mechanism. The article uses time-series-cross-section data for the years 1999–2008 to...

Traditionally, manufacturing enterprises pay flat rates for each kiloWatt-hour (kWh) of electricity consumed. Newly available electric tariffs that charge both energy consumption (in kWh) and peak demand (in kiloWatts, i.e., kW) with varying time-of-use (TOU) rates have started to gain...

Scheduling manufacturing operations is a complicated decision making process. From the computational point of view, the scheduling problem is one of the most notoriously intractable NP-hard optimization problems. When the manufacturing system is not too large, the traditional methods for solving...

Разработана модель материального потока производственной системы с учетом случайных производственных потерь, представляющих собой распределенный случайный...

Every manufacturing company is a system of individual manufacturing units, which have to be carefully laid out taking into account time, space, technology, and organisation perspective in order to deliver maximum final product. In order to secure absolute effective and efficient functionality of...

The model of material stream of the production system is developed taking into account the stochastic production losses that represent by itself the distributed stochastic process with the correlation function of type of \"white noise\" and function that has seasonal vibrations.

The paper highlights the problem of mathematical modeling of a complex manufacturing system which is a potential synthetic representation of a real production environment. Production lines are parallel. Each production line consists of work stations which are placed serially along the...

Green and cloud computing (G-cloud) are new trends in all areas of computing. The G-cloud provides an efficient function, which enables users to access their programs, systems and platforms at anytime and anyplace. Green computing can also yield greener technology by reducing power consumption...