Intense competition in many industries impels firms to develop more products in less time. Overlapping of development activities is regarded as one of the most promising strategie...
Jun Lin, Kah Hin Chai, Yoke San Wong, Aarnout Brom...
We study the one-machine scheduling problem with release dates and we look at several objective functions including total (weighted) tardiness and total (weighted) completion time...
Antoine Jouglet, David Savourey, Jacques Carlier, ...
This paper examines contract practices between suppliers and retailers in the agricultural seed industry. We construct and analyze single-retailer models of various contract types...
Parent-centric real-parameter crossover operators create the offspring in the neighbourhood of one of the parents, the female parent. The other parent, the male one, defines the r...
Multicut is a fundamental network communication and connectivity problem. It is defined as: given an undirected graph and a collection of pairs of terminal vertices, find a minimu...