Bei der Belegung kontinuierlicher Produktionslinien sind Entscheidungen über die Größe von Produktionslosen und deren Einlastung auf die Linien zu treffen. Wenn Produktwechsel beträchtliche Umrüstkosten oder -zeiten verursachen, die eventuell sogar von der Reihenfolge der Losauflage...

This paper presents a novel solution heuristic to the General Lotsizing and Scheduling Problem for Parallel production Lines (GLSPPL). The GLSPPL addresses the problem of simultaneously deciding about the sizes and schedules of production lots on parallel, heterogeneous production lines with...

In times of demand shocks, when quantitative forecasting based on historical time series becomes obsolete, the only information about future demand is "advance demand information", i.e. interpreting early customer bookings as an indicator of not yet known demand. This paper deals with a...

Domain Specific Languages (DSL) are an important concept that is used in industry, in order to enable the fast and cost-efficient design of specific functions/components, and/or to target particular aspects of the systems' development and operation. In the current article, the authors describe...

Summary Systematic research reviews have become essential in all empirical sciences. However, the validity of research syntheses is threatened by the fact that not all studies on a given topic can be summarized. Research reviews may suffer from missing data, and this is especially crucial in...