A relevant segment of job shop environments has to cope with specific routing complexity. When order routings are long or assembly structures exist, performance problems arise in the application of traditional job shop control concepts based on workload control (WLC). This paper investigates how...

This paper introduces a general, formal treatment of dynamic constraints, i.e., constraints on the state changes that are allowed in a given state space. Such dynamic constraints can be seen as representations of "real world" constraints in a managerial context. The notions of transition,...

New product development is one of the most powerful but difficult activities in business. It is also a very important factor affecting final product quality. There are many techniques available for new product development. Experimental design is now regarded as one of the most significant...