The paper proposes a preventive maintenance (PM) planning model for the performance improvement of cellular manufacturing systems (CMS) in terms of machine reliability, and resour...
act 11 We address the problem of designing a network built on several layers. This problem occurs in practical applications 12 but has not been studied extensively from the point o...
This paper uses dynamic programming to investigate when contestants should use lifelines or when they should just stop answering in the TV quiz show ‘Who wants to be a millionai...
Crew scheduling problems at the planning level are typically solved in two steps: first, creating working patterns, and then assigning these to individual crew. The first step is ...
This paper expands previous work dealing with oligopolistic supply chains to the field of closedloop supply chains. The model presented has been formulated with the intent of exa...
In recent years, Support Vector Machines (SVMs) were successfully applied to a wide range of applications. Their good performance is achieved by an implicit non-linear transformat...
David Martens, Bart Baesens, Tony Van Gestel, Jan ...
In this paper, we study different strategies to stabilize and accelerate the column generation method, when it is applied specifically to the variable sized bin-packing problem,...
In the two-dimensional single large object placement problem, we are given a rectangular master surface which has to be cut into a set of smaller rectangular items, with the aim o...