This paper analyses the effects of various maintenance policies and part arrival patterns on the performance of a flexible manufacturing cell (FMC). A simulation analysis coupled with design of experiments is utilised in the study. In particular, the design of experiments includes maintenance...

Maintaining the natural variability of a river’s flow regime is one of the most critical strategies sustaining the ecological integrity of aquatic ecosystems. This research seeks to determine the ecological flow regime for management of streamflow existing reservoirs. The ecological flow...

Let $$T \, =\, \{T_1, T_2, \ldots, T_n\}$$ be a set of n independent tasks and $$\mathcal{P}=\{P_1, P_2,\ldots, P_m\}$$ a set of m processors. During each time instant, each processor can be used by a single task at most. A schedule is for each task an allocation of one or more time intervals to...

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This paper focuses on the logistics aspect of supply chain management. It proposes a randomized flow management algorithm for a time-varying, random, supply chain network. A constrained stochastic optimization problem that maximizes the profit function in terms of the long-run, time-average of...