We study an order promising problem in a multiclass, available-to-promise (ATP) assembly system in the presence of <i>pseudo orders</i>. A pseudo order refers to a tentative customer order whose attributes, such as the likelihood of an actual order, order quantity, and confirmation timing, can change...

Major earthquakes in the world, especially the ones above magnitude 7.0 are affected by the positions of celestial objects. The node of the lunar orbit with the earth's orbit moves westwards on the ecliptic, with a period of 18.6 years. The precession of the lunar ascending node causes the...

Chapter 1 System Science -- Chapter 2 Decision-Making Methods -- Chapter 3 Prediction Methods -- Chapter 4 Evaluation Methods -- Chapter 5 Optimization Algorithm -- Chapter 6 System Reliability -- Chapter 7 Game Theory -- Chapter 8 Management Simulation -- Chapter 9 Complexity Science.-Chapter...

Text summarization is a process for creating a concise version of document(s) preserving its main content. In this paper, to cover all topics and reduce redundancy in summaries, a two-stage sentences selection method for text summarization is proposed. At the first stage, to discover all topics...

Since PV grid paraity has already been achieved in Germany, households are given an indirect financial incentive to invest in PV and battery storage capacities. This paper analyzes the economic consequences of the household's optimization behavior induced by the indirect financial incentive for...

Purpose: The train dispatching is a crucial issue in the train operation adjustment when passenger flow outbursts. During holidays, the train dispatching is to meet passenger demand to the greatest extent, and ensure safety, speediness and punctuality of the train operation. In this paper, a...

Purpose: Production planning and control has crucial impact on the production and business activities of enterprise. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is the most popular resources planning and management system, however there are some shortcomings and deficiencies in the production planning...

The purpose of the project is to develop a method to calculate the optimal number of newspapers to deliver to each of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s 7500 sales outlets on each day of the week. The optimization model takes into account sales and advertising revenues,printing costs,...