Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) systems have gained renewed interest from academics and practitioners. However, literature on APS adoption is scant. This study explores the impact of organizational and innovation related factors on the adoption of APS systems from a factors approach. The...

We present new lower bounds for the Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem with Set Up Times. We improve the lower bound obtained by the textbook Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition where the capacity constraints are the linking constraints. In our approach, Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition is applied to the network...

By using a smooth entropy function to approximate the non-smooth max-type function, a verticallinear complementarity problem (VLCP) can be treated as a family of parameterized smoothequations. A Newton-type method with a testing procedure is proposed to solve sucha system. We show that the...

A new smoothing approach based on entropic perturbationis proposed for solving mathematical programs withequilibrium constraints. Some of the desirableproperties of the smoothing function are shown. Theviability of the proposed approach is supported by acomputationalstudy on a set of well-known...

We consider generalized monotone functions f: X -- {0,1}defined for an arbitrary binary relation = on X by theproperty x = y implies f(x) = f(y). These include thestandard monotone (or positive) Boolean functions, regular Booleanfunctions and other interesting functions as special cases. It...