The design of a cellular manufacturing system requires that a machine population be partitioned into machine groups called manufacturing cells. A new graph partitioning heuristic is proposed to solve the manufacturing cell formation problem (MCFP). In the proposed heuristic, The MCFP is...

В статье критически анализируется состояние современной маркетинговой теории. Обосновано новое определение маркетинга в триединстве его аспектов. Доказана...

People must often perform calculations in order to produce a numeric estimate (e.g., a grocery-store shopper estimating the total price of his or her shopping cart contents). The current studies were designed to test whether estimates based on calculations are influenced by comparisons with...

Planning models that connect natural forests through corridors formed by industrial forests result in combinatorial mathematical problems that are difficult to solve and demand special techniques. The main objective of this paper is to apply, improve and evaluate the performance of a heuristic...

We study the following grid scheduling problem. A set of independent tasks, submitted to a grid external scheduler (ES), has to be assigned to a set of grid computing sites, each one controlled by a local scheduler (LS), for their execution. With each task are associated a release date and a...

Purpose The purpose of this article is to develop a bi-directional relaxed flexible bay structure (BRFBS) in the layout for the unequal area facility layout problems (UA-FLPs) and test the suitability of the proposed approach using literature data. Design/methodology/approach This research...

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