Dial-a-Ride systems involve dispatching a vehicle to satisfy demands from a set of customers who call a vehicle operating agency requesting that an item be picked up from a specif...
This paper describes a way to manage the modeling and analysis of Scheduled Maintenance Systems (SMS) within an analytically tractable context. We chose a significant case study h...
Abstract-- The emerging paradigm of Grid Computing provides a powerful platform for the optimisation of complex computer models, such as those used to simulate real-world logistics...
Alex Shenfield, Peter J. Fleming, Visakan Kadirkam...
In this paper the one-machine scheduling problem with linear earliness and tardiness costs is considered. The7 cost functions are job dependent and asymmetric. The problem consist...
We show that CSMA is able to spontaneously synchronize transmissions in a wireless network with constant-size packets, and that this property can be used to devise efficient synch...