The performance of an enterprise largely depends on the schedule of its resources. A good schedule may increase the output rate and reduce the production costs. Therefore, in this paper, we consider the cyclic schedule of hoist activities in automated electroplating lines which is commonly known...

Patients are traditionally treated in hospitals and healthcare facilities. However, many care services known as Home Health Care (HHC) are provided at patients' homes. Despite the growing trend in life expectancy in developing countries, the number of health facilities and resources is not...

In today’s manufacturing outlook, coordinated scheduling of delivery and inventory represents a leading leverage to enhance the competitiveness of firms which aims to address the new challenge coming from scheduling problems. Though in the last decades this kind of issue has been extensively...