Many industrial applications mandate the use of a timetriggered paradigm and consequently the use of off-line scheduling for reasons such as predictability, certification, cost, o...
The goal of this paper is to propose a tabu search heuristic for the car sequencing problem (CSP) used for the ROADEF 2005 international Challenge. This NP-hard problem was propos...
: New semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities use Front Opening Unified Pods (FOUPs) as a common unit of wafer transfer. Since the number of pods is limited due to high costs, a...
— In this paper a new approach to optimize nuclear power plant designs based on global risk reduction are described. In design the focus is on as components quality as redundancy...
Based on a fifteen month investigation of a post production facilities for both the entertainment industry and broadcasters, we identified a number of challenges with the design an...