Sheep welfare is an emerging topic in research and food marketing, and recent studies suggest that farm labour is a key factor for both animal welfare and productivity in extensive sheep farming systems, although little research has been done into labour utilisation in these systems. This paper...

Part 1: Lessons -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio—A primer -- Chapter 3: Setting up a model -- Chapter 4: Data structures and related OPL language elements -- Chapter 5: Introduction to IBM ILOG Script -- Chapter 6: Modeling with tuples -- Chapter 7:...

This paper presents an optimum solution of the economic dispatch (ED) problem without considering transmission losses using linear programming (LP). In the ED problem, several on-line units (generators) are available, and it is needed to determine the power to produce by each unit in order to...