In today's competitive business environment, management of suppliers is essential for companies to monitor the value chain of the entire production network. Evidence suggests that undesirable occurrences in companies, such as extensive delays in the planned schedule, serious quality problems and...

This article presents a technique for the design of slat-type blinds based on the their relative light intensity distribution under a uniform light source. The technique offers a new approach using a genetic algorithm in order to evolve the design according to a set of parameters.

In this study, the effects of non-uniform flow due to: (i) inflow from tributaries and (ii) the presence of a downstream control structure (such as a weir or a barrage), on the optimal waste load allocation decision and the resulting cost-equity trade-off relationships, have been investigated....

This paper presents a Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm (MOEA) to derive a set of optimal operation policies for a multipurpose reservoir system. One of the main goals in multi-objective optimization is to find a set of well distributed optimal solutions along the Pareto front. Classical...

Ever since the release of the Kyoto protocol the demand for CO2-free processes have been increasing. One of the most expanding sources of electric power in the industrialised world today is the gas-fired combined cycle, combining high efficiency and low investment cost. In this paper, the...

In this paper we expound, for the first time, the application of the Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm to the Multi-Objective design of isolated hybrid systems. The design is posed as an optimisation problem whose solution allows obtaining the configuration of the system as well as the...