This paper considers a two-machine flow shop scheduling problem with deteriorating jobs in which the processing times of jobs are dependent on their starting times in the sequence. The objective is to minimize the weighted sum of makespan and total completion time. To analyse the problem, we...

This research is motivated by an automobile manufacturing supply chain network. It involves a multi-echelon production system with material supply, component fabrication, manufacturing, and final product distribution activities. We address the production planning issue by considering bill of...

We combine the Analytic Network Process (ANP) and the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) to build a cohesive decision model for determining firm level IT outsourcing strategy. Although prior research has confirmed the existence of interactions among BSC indicators and the potential impact of those...

We investigate the equilibrium behaviors of a two-stage supply chain (SC) under three supply chain structures: (i) manufacturer Stackelberg (MS), (ii) retailer Stackelberg (RS) and (iii) vertical Nash (VN). Given quality and marketing effort-dependent demand, we develop models to optimize the...

We study a two-machine flowshop scheduling problem with time-dependent deteriorating jobs, i.e. the processing times of jobs are an increasing function of their starting time. The objective is to minimize the total completion time subject to minimum makespan. We propose a mixed integer...

In this paper we develop a methodology to study the sensitivity and the stability of models built using the Analytic Network Process. We study two types of stability: core and solution stability. The former deals with finding the region of the perturbation space in which the initial solution...

Cardinal and ordinal inconsistencies are important and popular research topics in the study of decision making with pair-wise comparison matrices (PCMs). Few of the currently-employed tactics are capable of simultaneously dealing with both cardinal and ordinal inconsistency issues in one model,...