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Purpose This paper aims to discuss the link between socio-economic characteristics of house buyers and their housing location choices. The major objective of the study is an examination of the role of household socio-economic characteristics. The research addresses the importance of previous...
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In several countries the period after World War II is characterized by building dwellings in mass production in order to bring the supply in line with the increasing housing demand. As a result little attention was paid to societal trends and actual user wants. Several trends and developments...
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Purpose – The aim of this study is to identify factors that influence drivers' route choice response to travel time information about both the expressway and local streets provided by variable message signs on arterial roads. Design/methodology/approach – A stated preference questionnaire...
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production scheduling process that is of crucial importance in today’s manufacturing and service industries. In this paper, the … authors propose a knowledge‐based system for production‐scheduling that could be incorporated as a custom module in an ERP … the most appropriate scheduling algorithm from a library of many candidate algorithms.  …
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Corporations want productivity and efficiency, while the work force is asking for more time with the family. The ability of management to juggle productivity requirements with employee demands can be difficult and requires creative solutions. The Analytical Central Call Management (CCM) group at...
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In this article, the authors propose a decision support system which aims to optimize the classical Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem by considering the existence of multiple available depots and a time window which must not be violated, that they call the Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem...
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demonstrated on permutation flow-shop scheduling as one of the most widely studied hard combinatorial optimization problems in the …
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Due to the widespread use of cloud services, the need for proper and dynamic distribution will redouble the resources. One of the most complex problems in cloud environments is resource allocation such that on one hand the resource provider should obtain maximum utilization and on the other hand...
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computing platform which consumes enormous energy in the task execution. Energy-aware job scheduling, in the computational grid …
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significant role in the smooth operations of the RTES through efficient task scheduling schemes and resource managements. This …
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