In this paper, an effective estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) is proposed to solve the distributed permutation flow-shop scheduling problem (DPFSP). First, the earliest completion factory rule is employed for the permutation based encoding to generate feasible schedules and calculate...

The main body of the paper is devoting to reporting an investigation designed to solve selected problems of production programming with a help of a computer simulation. The Ek_An_ – computer experimental environment with a DEF company simulation model incorporated was used as a main...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems vendors face great challenges to enhance their market position and maximize their profits. Being able to simultaneously predict the diffusion of an ERP and to determine the right price to charge to a customer is a complex task. Earlier work has...